I see music genres as a scientist may see classification.  I see it as a way to classify music and a method to understand it.  It's very difficult to define a genre (like a species) because there are many variables to consider when classifying a song.  How is a genre separated from other genres?  When do you add a prefix to a genre?  Are some genres equal?  It's easy to say that art genres are nothing like species of animals because art is man-made and therefore has a political, cultural, and personal qualities that can not be observed objectively as if a science because humans are political, cultural, and personal with each other.  And so since art is not something like a foreign object (a dog for example), a rock, or a math problem, it's harder to develop some definite science.



But my argument is that art does not need to remain an art for an audience to remain an art for the artist.  What I mean by this is by defining art as the "capacity to make, involving to a true course of reason" (Aristotle).  Art therefore will always mean to an artist, in non-standardized terms, that whatever makes something sound in whatever particular way is the absolute.

A critic would not see it in such a way.  The critic tries to be a scientist who can use the theories of art to see things others can't and highlight that to those who are clearly not aware of it.  He/she may acknowledge that an artist thinks differently than he/she does because he/she is not an artist.  He/she is an audience member, an important element to the equation of some economic success or social fame.  The critic says either something is good or bad, based on his own knowledge of the art and his knowledge of the science of the art.  Both which are rapidly changing and therefore people claim shouldn't be pursued.

But the science of art must be pursued and studied, especially now than ever.  There are countless people who do not understand why something is done the way it is.  Someday people might say, "Well, that person is an artist who participates in [blank] to get attention and money.  People participate in [blank] because it's sinful and hurtful towards the state.  We should destroy [blank] and all who like [blank].  They'll forever be people who like [blank]."

Now put the word "homosexuality" in there.  You have a culture war.  And why do you have a culture war?  Because you didn't understand what the artist was trying to say or do.  You just assumed the artist participates in homosexuality.  And then that.