Time For A New Name For New Music?

Greg Sandow thinks it’s time to rename contemporary classical music. “I think we might need another term for what we talk about here. Our genre, obviously, is ‘new music’ — but what does that mean? The words themselves don’t say very much. There are all kinds of new music—new salsa, new merengue, new Christian rap, new Mariah Carey remixes. Which ‘new music’ do we mean? Well, new classical music, I guess.” But that’s not very accurate either…