Genre

I would have to say that genres are not really something that someone can just come up with and create. I believe that genres kind of form over time. The first thing that pops into my mind when i think of genres is music, and mainly the genre of country music comes to mind. Now i don't think that just randomly one country music singer decided one day to create country music, i think it is something that develops after a number of people do the same kind of thing. Even then i can't really think about how they form a genre or who actually gets to come up with it. I would think a long time ago people were coming up with genres and they just kind of have stuck and now that is what people do today. Now in regards to what purposes does a genre function or for whom it functions, I would say are very important things. A genre obviously categorizes a certain group of work and it is going to pertain to whoever likes the things within that genre so that's who the genre functions for.