Episode 171 How To Start A Conversation About Music

In this episode we look at how we can talk about music. It's always a good idea to know some different music categories so that you can have an easy conversation with people about music. I'll also give you some conversation starters and questions to keep the conversation going. This is a great conversation topic for parties, dates, business outings and other situations where you're having casual 'get to know you' conversation. I did a Google search for 'musical categories' and got the figures I mentioned in the episode of 41 primary genres and 337 subcategories of music. You can find the full article here: https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile/how-many-music-genres-do-we-need/ During the episode I gave you some ideas for good conversation starting questions and some examples of how conversations might go. Questions What's your favorite kind of music? What are you listening to right now? Conversation 1 'What are you listening to right now?' 'Oh, my favorite podcast at the moment is...' 'Oh what's that about?' Conversation 2 'What are you listening to right now?' 'Oh, I've never heard of that kind of music before'. 'Can you tell me some famous bands who play that kind of music?' 'What's the history of this kind of music?' 'Where does kind of music originate from?' Follow on Questions For Another Day 'Did you listen to the last podcast?' 'Have you been to the concert?' 'Did you know that that band was coming into town?' Vocabulary composer - a person who creates and writes music genre - a category of something, used for music, movies, books posh - an upper class person stereotype - a culturally accepted idea of someone or something that is often over-simplified and sometimes completely wrong in the charts - in the UK when I was a kid we had 'charts' where the number of singles sold that week would be counted and the one who sold the most would be 'top of the charts', these days these lists are often made from stream or download lists but they are still called 'the charts'. wide genre - a large category that covers a lot of different things crossover music - something that could fit in two or more categories or something that started off in one category, maybe country music, but has been picked up and played by pop radio stations and is now in the Pop music charts. to stick to something - to continue doing something over time emerging - beginning or starting to be famous headbanging - literally bouncing your head up and down massively diversified - extremely varied if music comes up - phrasal verb 'comes up' - is mentioned in a conversation open ended question - in English we have 'closed questions' which are answered with 'yes' or 'no' or 'open questions' which need a longer sentence to be answered. diversity - variety in anything really digging into - phrasal verb 'digging into' - learning about, getting interested in and spending a lot of time doing research and learning. musical scores - the name for the paper where music is written down.