Re: latin music or Latin music

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 02:29:27 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.afro-latin
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I think we capitalize because the latin in latin music refers to music of
the Latin-speaking people(s). It's not like rock and roll, which is a
specific type of music, either. It's an umbrella term. That also makes us
more reluctant to dismiss that possessive capitalization: English ale,
French wine, Latin music . . . .
kaysee
"Gabriel Wilder" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> > > I need to be accurate in something ...
> > >
> > > Is it "latin music" or "Latin music"?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you to anyone who can help me out.
> >
> > in Spanish it would be "musica latina", in English I suppose its Latin
> > music. Aren't the names of most genres capitalized?
> >
>
> There are different rules in different parts of the English speaking
> world. In Australia (and I'm a sub on a newspaper here, so this is the
> kind of stuff I actually have to give a lot of thought to) we don't
> generally capitalise music genres: ie heavy metal, disco, funk, etc.
> However, as Latin refers to the language (or languages descended from
> it such as Spanish) or the people, we capitalise it, as we would with
> other languages/name of peoples/countries etc.
>
> Having said that I've just checked the Macquarie dictionary and they
> say that when used as an adjective as in a case like "latin music" it
> should be lower case. This is just one example where we ignore the
> dictionary.
>
> So I guess you can go either way.
> Gab