I love your question. I really made me think. I feel that genre is an attempt to categorize an art form, which is always very hard to do. But I will compare the different genres to different peoples. You know an Egyptian when you see him, right? You know from your experience. It would be hard for me to do so, because I have only met two or three people from Egypt in my life (a chef named Mustafa at a restaurant I used to work at, was the very first Egyptian I ever knew). I feel like the broad categories, such as hip hop and R&B are like that. You just know when you hear it, from tons and tons of exposure to the art forms. However, there are tracks that define the genre. Look up Hip Hop on Wikipedia and you will see such examples. Then there are tracks that are on the edges of the genres, where it starts to blend into another genre. That’s where it gets hard to define. And all those sub-genres, like deep house and electro commercial house? Someone else has to chime in on that. Your English is good!
