Talk:Crossover (music)

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Contents 1 Definitions 2 Crossover jazz 3 more on crossover jazz 4 Top artists and albums

[edit] Definitions

• "...crossover success (i.e. sold well to both blacks and whites in the US)..."
• "As Breen (1991:193) observed, moving into the 1990s every genre and sub-genre of popular music shared a location on 'the totalized mpa of popular music culture, where the bridges that form the industrial crossovers from one domain of the popular music industry to the next are increasingly interconnected."
  • Roy Shuker, Roy (2001). Understanding Popular Music, p.119 and 150. ISBN 0415235103.

Hyacinth 11:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crossover jazz

There should be an article on "crossover jazz", as distinct from "fusion." Dogru144 00:36, 7 July 2006

[edit] more on crossover jazz

I think the reference to pop music in the 80s should be toned down as it appears to be a marketing gimmick to include the names of people's favourite bands and obtain credit for "inventing" a new trend rather than an objective assessment of the phenomenon as such. The term crossover was certainly being used in the jazz world in 1975 and I would hazard a guess it was being used to refer to Miles Davis before that and Weather Report, etc. but I have no documentation to back it up. 83.191.63.182 19:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Top artists and albums

I really don't like the existence of this section. I think it is just asking for promotion of one's own favorite group that could be considered crossover. Any reliable, objective basis for determining "top" or "best" would be possible to articulate in more specific, objective terms, such as album sales or whatnot. I'm thinking I will be bold and remove this section in a day or two unless someone objects. -GlamdringCookies 17:15, 16 November 2006 (UTC)