Blurry Boundaries – Where Is Classical Music?

“Where does classical music begin and end? I don’t mean in terms of chronology – whether it starts with Josquin or Monteverdi, or finishes with Schönberg or Stockhausen. I ask the question in relation to generic boundaries, and I want an answer because so much effort has been expended recently on “breaking down the barriers” which supposedly surround classical music that it has become impossible to maintain any focused sense of what those barriers were originally intended to mark.”