Organising itunes by genres and styles

Hi
My iTunes library became through the years a very large database with music.
I have now more than 3000 albums in my collection
And a lot of different genres and styles.
Till now I didn't care about the genre and style.
I had a complete different way of organising them.
I'm starting the realise that I should reorganise everything.
It's gonna be a huge work, I think
Something that looks pretty poor in iTunes, is the classification by genre and style.
Doesn't seem very obvious to me in iTunes.
Cause of the many genres that overlap each other, it looks difficult to organise.
I have many albums that are a mixture of Jazz, funk, afrobeat, afrofunk, world, ...
Also a lot of them, go to electronic, dub, reggae, ...
I had a closer look to discogs.com
Their way of classification looks pretty good to me.
I checked a lot of albums on their site, and it looked close to what I wanted.
But how giving multiple genres and subgenres (styles) to 1 album.
Except giving them in the same tag the different genres and subgenres
But then I will have a lot that starts with jazz
And the result will be a huge list with different genres like
- jazz / funk
- jazz / soul
- jazz / afrobeat
- jazz / afrofunk
- jazz / afrobeat / electro
- jazz / afrobeat / dub
Also it must be very well ordered, and not having
- jazz / afrobeat / funk
- jazz / funk / afrobeat
it's the same genres, but will be shown as different genres in iTunes
Anybody any idea.
Is there also any automatisation possible in this huge upcoming work

There is only one official genre field. However, just because a field is called something doesn't mean you have to put that information into that field. For example I don't use Beats Per Minute but I do have a 3 digit code I use for some tracks that I put into that field and just remember that's what I use BPM for. I put album label information into the Grouping field. You could put a second genre into that if you so wished. You still won't be able to list by genre and sub genre though. You're limited to what is offered. You can make suggestions to Apple to change iTunes to add more genre fields but this may go again some sort of tagging standard, and frankly I don't see a lot of people here complaining about it so I don't think it will be put high on their list.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
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