While generalisations about history, geography and demographics make for useful shorthand, you will find more persuasive answers in the details of certain synchronicities and catalysts that bring people together: a club, a record shop, an inspirational mentor, a record label established by a charismatic local eccentric.
And they have to be flag-bearers for an industry that has largely been a model, in a gross generalisation, of conservatism throughout its history.
It writes us out of our own story through generalisation.
The exceptions are not conclusive; they are mainly of the kind that nobody should find very surprising (such as, "History matters").Many interesting anti-generalisations do emerge, however.
Collingwood denounces historians who employ the method of inductive generalisations as writing pseudo-histories.
This book refutes such generalisations chapter by chapter and with copious illustrations, taking us through European history from the Greeks and Romans, via the Middle Ages, Renaissance and the Enlightenment, until the present day.
"Everyone talks about 'the migrants' in a broad generalisation, but these are individuals with stories and lives, in many cases tragic histories that have brought them to this point," he said.
A 53-year-old Caucasian male with a history of rectal carcinoma presented with several partial epileptic seizures with or without secondary generalisation due to brain metastasis.
A hypothesis constructed by the fact-finder may be shaped subconsciously by a prejudicial generalisation or background belief about the accused based on a certain feature, say, his race or sexual history.
The history of investigation of water at surfaces and in biochemistry has led to many such generalisations, which are valid for a narrow range of conditions, but totally misleading outside that narrow range.
