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When did "mass genre-fication" start happening? Modern fashion, lit, music, etc. is divided by critics/writers into hundreds of (often essentially identical) genres & styles each. Would this state of affairs be recognizable to a premodern European critic?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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