It has eluded a specific genre label by incorporating elements of many different styles of music.

And yet country isn't one of those genre labels, like alternative rock or teen pop, that performers can merely shrug off.

The words in each sample set correspond to a specific genre label.

He tried not to feel hampered by genre labels, and that is reflected in the musical style.

By bending the rules to send up the conventions of romance, Mr. Berkowitz, 36, produced a movie that defies genre labels.

Battistelli's music is the mix of several different genre labels.

Reynolds loves obscure genre labels.

As is often the case with musical genre labels, few of the bands wished to see themselves pigeon-holed, and tended to eschew the term.

Like most genre labels, really.

What I am trying to point up here is the rhetorical dimension of genre labels.