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Consider historically and critically a chosen genre of popular music. Genre is a particular style that is recognizable by its particular subject or form. It is also a term which defines something that is produced according to a particular model. For example, when discussing media texts, it is apparent that some qualities of one may be associated with another. Within a media context, genre can generally be defined as being a "category or type".1 These categories are not necessarily fixed, and are subject to change. Shuker (1994) states that genres operate ...within a commercial system of record companies, contracts, marketing, publicity, management, support staff and so on; within this context bands tour and perform, make records, and create an image. 2 This description is coherent with notions of music genres, which continue to function as "marketing categories and reference points for the musician and the fan."3 The definition of genre that Shuker...

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