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Jeremy Lyons: Cute Ethnomusicologist Quits the Street and Hits the Road

July 1, 2000 by: Cristina Diettinger

There seems to be an unfounded obsession in music journalism with defining sounds, clarifying music for the public in terms of type. It manifests itself in a bad habit of slapping a label on every artist that comes along, and then later cursing him for deviating from a genre that he may have been locked into unwillingly . Consider Jeremy Lyons against this background, and it just doesn’t jive. His view of music as art and as entertainment do not concur with the need to describe music in terms...

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