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From bluegrass to skronk

This week’s language in the news post looks at the origins of music genre categories.

Whether invented by a musician or named for their band, derived from an album title or evolved from a record label, musical categories are always a point of contention. This feature from The Guardian looks at the roots of some more commonly-recognised genre names.

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