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Old 07-21-2009, 07:52 PM   #253 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Conan View Post
My only exposure to this has been working with a post-rock group. I like it but gosh-damn what a terrible name for a genre. After all the weird stuff that's been in rock music, how is this post- in any way?
Basically a lot of terms with 'post' in the beginning don't refer to what it may seem. Like postmodernism, post-rock is about deconstructing the genre which came before it. So... post-rock is about using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes and to 'deconstruct' rock as a genre. I'm rambling, I don't know where I was going with this but yeah.
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