<p id="E12" class="qowt-stl-Title">YouTube has taken the world by storm, there is no denying it. But YouTube is not just a bunch of funny videos of people falling over or babies laughing. There is a <a href="http://www.vocativ.com/320984/youtube-users-are-reinventing-the-way-we-classify-music/" target="_blank">whole world of music videos</a> on YouTube and that too has changed the way we hear and classify music.</p>
<p id="E16"><span id="E17">Classification of music</span></p>
<p id="E18"><span id="E19">For a long time, we’ve had the same old genres of pop, hip hop, rock etc. Once in a while a new genre would pop up but that wasn’t an everyday occurrence. But things have changed with the advent of YouTube into the world. Music videos still have tags of the traditional genres like R and B, rock n’ roll</span><span id="E20">!</span><span id="E21"> But there </span><span id="E22">are</span><span id="E23"> ways of classifying music now. These classifications are based on moods, habits, situations. The type of music and who the artist is; these are classification that have taken a backseat to make room for the new ones. </span></p>
<p id="E24"><span id="E25">People now want music that </span><span id="E26">has </span><span id="E27">functional or practical purposes</span><span id="E28">. For example, they might want music for an office party</span><span id="E29">,</span><span id="E30"> </span><span id="E31">o</span><span id="E32">r music that puts their bab</span><span id="E33">y to sleep, or the</span><span id="E34"> music with waves in the background. The result is that these new classifications </span><span id="E35">have melted</span><span id="E36"> the barriers between genres. Now there are new categories that are not as clear cut as the tra</span><span id="E37">ditional genres classification. </span></p>
<p id="E40"><span id="E41">Why the new classifications?</span></p>
<p id="E42"><span id="E43">YouTube has videos from all over the world, even from the smallest far flung areas of the world where internet is still a rare phenomenon</span><span id="E44">!</span><span id="E45"> It is the go-to video platform. So when you have music videos form literally all over the world, it’s not just the physical barriers that melt, but also those of</span><span id="E46"> </span><span id="E47">musical genres</span><span id="E48">. People can easily download music from two different corners of world and mix them up, making a new kind of music. </span><span id="E49">Also,</span><span id="E50"> there are people who don’t adhere to the traditional genres of music. Everyone has their own playlist. They have a different from when they get ready in the morning, a different one for their jog and a different one for sleeping. When they upload these preferences on YouTube, word spreads. Other people also start looking at music in a diffe</span><span id="E51">rent manner, and they start focusing on its functional purposes. </span></p>
<p id="E52"><span id="E53">A study—conducted by Massimo </span><span id="E55">Airoldi</span><span id="E57">, </span><span id="E59">DavideB</span><span id="E60">eraldo</span><span id="E62">, and Alessandro </span><span id="E64">Gandini</span><span id="E66"> </span><span id="E67">appearing in the journal “Poetics”, call this phenomenon “crowd-generated music categories.” This article further explain</span><span id="E68">s</span><span id="E69"> this phenomenon. </span></p>