{"id":2404,"date":"2009-11-03T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:35:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-03T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:35:22","slug":"what-genre-do-you-most-prefer-relative-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-genre-do-you-most-prefer-relative-t\/","title":{"rendered":"What Genre Do You Most Prefer Relative to the Original, &#8220;Authentic&#8221; Form When Done by &#8220;Inauthentic&#8221; Musicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_adUhrRm5D0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nA simple enough question, I believe: <em>What genre do you most prefer relative to the original, &#8220;authentic&#8221; form when done by &#8220;inauthentic&#8221; musicians?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In your heart of hearts, for instance, relative to authentic <strong>reggae<\/strong>, would you rather listen to <strong>The Clash<\/strong> play &#8220;Police and Thieves&#8221; and their other reggae covers?<\/p>\n<p>Can you take or leave authentic Chicago <strong>blues<\/strong>, yet you seek out any early <strong>Fleetwood Mac<\/strong> album involving <strong>Peter Green<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Is your <strong>country music<\/strong> collection primarily made up of albums by bearded Columbia University graduates living in Brooklyn?<\/p>\n<p>Is your interest in rock &#8216;n roll so weak that you prefer hearing it handled by the French?<\/p>\n<p>Something else? Do tell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple enough question, I believe: What genre do you most prefer relative to the original, &#8220;authentic&#8221; form when done by &#8220;inauthentic&#8221; musicians? In your heart of hearts, for instance, relative to authentic reggae, would you rather listen to The Clash play &#8220;Police and Thieves&#8221; and their other reggae covers? Can you take or leave <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-genre-do-you-most-prefer-relative-t\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}