Music Genres

There are so many different genres of music. There is bound to be something out there that will
suit you! Some of the more well-known and popular music genres are:

Rock: Originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western;
"rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."

Jazz: an American art form and an international phenomenon! Jazz is not the result of choosing a
tune, but an ideal that is created first in the mind, inspired by ones passion and willed next in playing
music. Jazz music is a language, sometimes intimate, often boisterous, but always layered with
experience and life profoundly lived. Jazz is not found in websites or books or even written down in
sheet music

Classical: traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical
interest and developed musical taste, considered a sophisticated genre of music.

Reggae: While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican Music, the
term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the
development of ska and rock steady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style.

Celtic: Often, the term Celtic music is applied to the music of Ireland and Scotland, because both
places have produced well-known distinctive styles which actually have genuine commonality and
clear mutual influences; however, it is notable that Irish and Scottish traditional musicians
themselves avoid the term "Celtic music," except when forced by the necessities of the market.

Country: is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States. It has
roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music and old-time music, evolving rapidly
in the 1920s. The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly
music was deemed to be degrading, and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s

Blues: s a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in
African-American communities of the United States from work songs, chants, and rhymed simple
narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and response patterns in the
music and lyrics are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later American and Western
popular music, as it became the roots of jazz, rhythm and blues; rock and roll and hip hop music
forms.

If you are a music enthusiast or a Melbourne base band or artist check out the Ebb and Flow music
Publicity website!