No, musical genre is not disappearing

...it's becoming the foil against which mood/vibe-based categories misrepresent themselves as having overcome genre's problematic race/class/gender baggage.

Amanda Petrusich’s New Yorker piece titled “Genre is disappearing, what comes next?” correctly identifies a contemporary trend but overstates its reach. She’s right that “genre feels increasingly irrelevant to the way we think about, create, and consume art,” but genre isn’t, as she suggests, going away completely. As Petrusich argues, “genre was once a…