Dreamland Genre Classifaction

The question to be asked in one of our latest activity reports is: Why do music genres almost always focus around the style of music, but not the message it carries or is the message inherently tied to the style?

Our group of musicologists tried to dig into this question over the past months and came up with several different classifications that are not commonly used.
So if you for example open up Winamp 2.81, look at the ID3 tag of an mp3 and select the Genre drop down list you'll notice lots of different entries, probably over 100, ranging from A Cappella to Vocal. If you single out the most common ones, as far as this is possible, without digging into your more favorite ones, you'll still be left with lots of options. For one, we could divide everything into Alternative, Pop and Classic and explain that every others would be subcategories. In some cases this would work well, in some other cases this would not work so well, it is still a very abstract description and it is arguable if "Alternative" is just to satisfy the people trying to seperate their minds from the "mainstream". Overall it's pretty hard to distinguish between Alternative and Pop and it becomes even more so when more and more Bands from Alternative become popular enough, alternative music becoming popular. Additionally what to do with music such as 50s, 60s, 70s or the synthesizer music of the 80s - Alternative when they were Pop in the past? Still Pop or add them to the Mozarts, Beethovens and Bachs? There arises already a conflict, because Classic would suggest a classification that is time based, but Pop and Alternative much more focus on the number of people listing to it, radio stations playing it and popularity has more problems like Folk music which is hard to classify that way.
So the current situation is a compromise between classifying every band as own genre and just call it all music. It is trying to develop a name for the message of the various bands and artists, so that we have Rock'n'Roll, Rap, Hip-Hop, Rock, Metal,.. . And the message in this case both means the textual content (the semantics) and the envelope (the music/expression), because quite obviously the same vocal message can be sent in different envelopes and both is important to humans. We have yet to look into how exactly the semiotic framework applies here.

Based on this, we'll also more look at the message of the music for genre classification and examine content and envelope to fit the group or song into a genre. What we are going to develop is a matrix of textual content (love, rage against authority, hate, well-feeling,...) and music style based on some more easy factors such as beat, amplitude and some more complex ones as frequency analysis, cleaness and others. Given that we can put a good abstraction for textual content that is equally detailed for every entry we could classify all kinds of music, because what really differes us humans is not the text - all these feelings are inherently tied to humanity - but the envelope, which is on the one hand bounded by the limitation of our ears and on the other unlimited in our creativity of how to express things.