American music

BY
IMRAN SHAIKH
Introduction

 The music of the United States reflects the

country's multi-ethnic population through a
diverse array of styles.
 The United States has the world's largest
music industry and its music is heard around
the world
Country's most internationally-renowned genres.

• Rock and roll

• Blues
• Country
• Jazz
• Pop
• Techno
• Hip hop
ROCK N ROLL

 Originated and evolved in the United States

during the late 1940s and early 1950s,
 Combination of the blues, country music, jazz
and gospel music
 An early form of rock and roll was rockabilly,
which combined country and jazz
HIP HOP

 Hip hop is a form of musical expression and

artistic culture that originated in African-
American communities.
 Its culture has spread around the world
 Hip hop music first emerged with disc jockeys
creating rhythmic beats
 This was later accompanied by "rap”
JAZZ

 Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music

that originated by African American
communities in the Southern United States
 It has spawned a variety of subgenres
TYPES OF JAZZ

1940s and 1950s

 Dixieland revival

 Bebop

 Cool jazz

 Hard bop

 Modal jazz

 Free jazz
 1960s and 1970s

•Latin jazz
•Post bop
•Soul jazz
•Jazz fusion
•Jazz funk
•Other trends
 1980s–2010s

 Traditionalist and Experimental divide

 Smooth jazz
 Acid jazz, nu jazz and jazz rap
 Punk jazz and jazz core
 M-Base
POP

 Pop music is usually understood to be

commercially recorded music
 oriented towards a youth market
 Pop music has absorbed influences from
most other forms of popular music
 It is particularly associated with the rock and
roll and later rock style.
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