>Do you acknowledge that such boundaries do
>exist?

they are imposed by people but aren't real like a microphone is a real object. people can ignore the boundaries people place on them or indeed they place on themselves.


>How then does the genres not exist when they are in
>fact defined by said boundaries?

because they are completely subjective. you yourself don't consider certain music "true" representatives of a said genre, which is a case in point of how little genres really mean. they are helpful to an extent but are just concepts, some looser than others.


>And what's the difference/conflict between listening to what's
>going on in the music and checking off a list of what should
>be found in the supposed genre? You do the former when your'e
>listening and then use the information you gathered doing the
>former to do the latter in the context of a discussion about
>the relevant genre, it's not hard work...

there's a difference between bringing with you your experience and knowledge in music (and everything else, but i digress) and expecting music to fit specific criteria of a genre and then being disappointed when it doesn't.