What kind of genre do you think we are? Genre theories, genre names and classes within music intermedial ecology

The idea proposed in this paper is that the intermedial, translating capability of music is well exemplified by the functioning of the musical genres, as we can deduce it by the names of the genres themselves. After a general theoretic framing of the notion of musical genre, the result of an explorative lexical-semantic analysis of a corpus of genre names is displayed; the aim is to build up a name-based typology of genres (a meta-typology, as genres are already a way by which we classify music) and to understand the possible basic values underlying this typology.