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I try not to get roped into talking about music with too many people, half the time it just turns into something really self-indulgent. Usually I'll say whatever I'm really into at that moment, or I'll say I like "the social music" (the phrase Miles Davis used to shut people up with) and get bizarre looks. I don't feel like clarifying my equal love of free-jazz with, oh, Beyonce's last record.
What I loathe more than the 'eclectic' tag is when people treat anything non-Anglo as "world music" and relegate someone like Oum Kalthoum's work into the "exotic music for rock singers" category (as Diamanda Galas likes to say).
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