Music Genres

As this coursework is on the music industry I thought I would start my research with a post about the different genres of music! These are some of the major ones that then branch off into sub-genres as well.

RnB

Rhythm and Blues is the name given to a wide ranging genre of popular music created by African American artists in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Rap

African-American genre in which rhyming lyrics, wordplay and poetry are chanted to accompanied backing beats. It is a primary element in hip hop music but predates hip hop culture by centuries.

Pop

This genre of music features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and a conventional structure that developed form the mid-1950s. It has absorbed influences from most other popular music and uses technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.

Rock

A genre of popular music employing electrical amplification that entered the mainstream in the 1960s but has it's roots in 1940s and 1950s rock n roll, rhythm and blues and country music.

Country

A simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United states and usually played on stringed instruments. It evolved rapidly in the 1920s.

Punk Rock

A rock music genre rooted in garage rock that consists of fast, hard-edged music. It developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Metal

A genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s largely in England and the United States. A loud, thick and massive sound with highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos and emphatic beats.