This one has had me thinking for a while.
Who exactly decides what genre a piece of music fits into.
For example I might hear a piece of music and have it described as jazz (or blues, country, folk, r and b, soul etc really doesn't matter) by the dj/presenter. A while later they play another piece of music and label it as the same genre. But it sounds totally different and certainly not what I interpret as being typical.
So who gets to decide? Does the artist say I'm Blues, soul, country etc and therefore that's how you label my music? Or is it the so called experts who get to hand out labels?