GENRE OF MUSIC

GENRE
OF
MUSIC
 A music genre is a conventional category (i.e, genre) that
identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition
or set of conventions. Genre is to be distinguished from musical
form and musical style, although in practice these terms are
sometimes used interchangeably. Music can be divided into genres
in numerous ways, sometimes broadly and with polarity, such as
for popular music, as opposed to art music or folk music; or, as
another example, religious music and secular music. The artistic
nature of music means that these classifications are often
subjective and controversial, and some genres may overlap. As
genres evolve, sometimes new music is lumped into existing
categories or else a proliferation of derivative subgenres, fusion
genres and "micro genres" starts to accrue.
 POP MUSIC
A genre of popular music that originated in
the West during the 1950s and 1960s. Pop
music is eclectic, often borrowing elements
from urban, dance, rock, Latin, country, and
other styles. Songs are typically short to
medium-length with repeated choruses,
melodic tunes, and hooks.
HIP HOP MUSIC
Hip hop or rap music formed in the United
States in the 1970s and consists of stylized
rhythmic music that commonly
accompanies rhythmic and rhyming speech
("rapping").
 ROCK MUSIC
A genre of popular music that originated as
"rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s,
and developed into a range of different styles in
the 1960s and later. Compared to pop music,
rock places a higher degree of emphasis on
musicianship, live performance, and an ideology
of authenticity.
 RHYTHM AND
BLUES
A genre of popular African-American music
that originated in the 1940s as urbane,
rocking, jazz based music with a heavy,
insistent beat. Lyrics focus heavily on the
themes of triumphs and failures in terms of
relationships, freedom, economics,
aspirations, and sex.
 SOUL MUSIC
A popular music genre that
combines elements of African-
American gospel music, rhythm and
blues and jazz.
 REGGAE
A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the
late 1960s, strongly influenced by traditional
mento as well as American jazz and rhythm
and blues, instantly recognizable from the
counterpoint between the bass and drum
downbeat, and the offbeat rhythm section.
 COUNTRY
A genre of United States popular music with
origins in folk, Blues and Western music, often
consisting of ballads and dance tunes with
generally simple forms and harmonies
accompanied by mostly string instruments such
as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, dobros,
and fiddles as well as harmonicas.
Country music often features lyrics about rural and
working-class life
 FUNK
A music genre that originated in the 1960s when
African American musicians created a rhythmic,
danceable new form of music that de-emphasized
melody and chord progressions to bring a strong
rhythmic groove of a bass line and drum part to the
foreground.
 FOLK MUSIC
A genre that evolved from traditional music during
the 20th century folk revival. One meaning often
given is that of old songs with no known
composers; another is music that has been
transmitted and evolved by a process of oral
transmission or performed by custom over a long
period of time.
 MIDDLE EASTERN
MUSIC
Music originating from the vast region from Morocco
to Iran, including the Arabic countries of the Middle
East and North Africa, the Iraqi traditions of
Mesopotamia, Iranian traditions of Persia, the Hebrew
music of Israel, Armenian music, the varied traditions
of Cypriot music, the music of Turkey, traditional
Assyrian music, Berbers of North Africa, and Coptic
Christians in Egypt.
 JAZZ
A music genre that originated from African
American communities of New Orleans during the
late 19th and early 20th centuries in the form of
independent traditional and popular musical styles,
all linked by the common bonds of African
American and European American musical
parentage with a performance orientation.
 DISCO
A genre of dance music containing
elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa that
achieved popularity during the mid-1970s
to the early 1980s.
CLASSICAL MUSIC

Art music produced or rooted in the

traditions of Western music, including
both liturgical and secular music, over the
broad span of time from roughly the 11th
century to the present day.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
A large set of predominantly popular and
dance genres in which synthesizers and
other electronic instruments are the
primary sources of sound.
 MUSIC OF LATIN
AMERICAN
Music originating from Latin America which
encompasses a wide variety of styles,
including son, rumba, salsa, merengue, tango,
samba, and bossa nova.
 BLUES
A genre and musical form developed by African
Americans in the United States around the end of the
19th century from African-American work songs and
European-American folk music. The blues form,
ubiquitous in jazz and rock and roll, is characterized
by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale and
specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar
blues is the most common. Blues shuffles or walking
bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a
repetitive groove effect.
 MUSIC OF
CHILDREN
Music performed for children, often designed
to provide an entertaining means of teaching
about cultures, good behavior, facts, and
skills.
 NEW-AGE MUSIC
A genre of music intended to create artistic
inspiration, relaxation, and optimism used by
listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and
reading as a method of stress management or to
create a peaceful atmosphere. Includes both
electronic and acoustic forms.
 VOCAL MUSIC
Music performed by one or more
singers, with or without instrumental
accompaniment, in which singing
provides the main focus of the piece.
 MUSIC OF AFRICA
Music whose style or form clearly indicates
African origin or primarily African influence.
Given the vastness of the continent, this covers
many distinct musical traditions. Sub-Saharan
African music frequently relies on percussion
instruments including xylophones, drums, and
tone-producing instruments such as the mbira or
"thumb piano."
CHRISTIAN MUSIC
Music that has been written to express either
personal or a communal belief regarding
Christian life and faith. Its forms vary widely
across the world, according to culture and social
context.
MUSIC OF MUSIC
Musical styles originating from a large
number of Asian countries located in
Central, Southern, and East Asia.
 SKA
A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the
late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean
mento and calypso with American jazz and
rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a
walking bass line accented with rhythms on the
off-beat.
TRADITIONAL MUSIC

Musical forms that have origins many

generations into the past, commonly without
formal notation or description, commonly
familiar to people in a given culture.
 INDEPENDENT
MUSIC
Music produced independent of major
commercial record labels, possibly
including a do-it-yourself approach to
recording and publishing. The term indie is
also used to describe music of this style
regardless of actual production channel.
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