From: ghostGARBAGE@bitstreamnetMOREGARBAGE.com   
      
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    Ross Winn  wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  ghost  wrote:   
   >   
   > > If the consumers and contributors change, then the genre would naturally   
   > > follow them along with it. Does that change previous incarnations of the   
   > > genre? No, it merely places them within a certain time frame.   
   >   
   > At what point of diversion does the thing actually become different? At   
   > what point does Hard SF become New Wave, and at what point does   
   > Rockabilly become Rock & Roll? I see your point, but at some point it   
   > mutates into something so different that it becomes a new thing, doesn't   
   > it?   
      
   It would have to.. but there's rarely "transformation" to a new thing in   
   reality.. Most things will have those who are, for lack of a better   
   word, "purists" that believe the genre (of any medium) has a certain   
   kind of staticity to it and those who don't end up splitting away and   
   getting called something else... and then's there's the mass subgenre   
   situation (most prevelent in music)..   
      
   and all everything really goes to prove is that if it doesn't fit in a   
   box/label society gets a bit uncomfortable with the whole thing. They   
   would rather apply multiple labels than dare assume something is mutable.   
      
   ghost   
      
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