MUSIC GENRES

Types of Music Genres: Blues Classical Country Electronic Jazz Pop/Rock Rap

BluesBlues is a genre[2] and musical

form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in African-American work songs and European-American folk music.[1] Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.

ClassicalClassical music is art music produced or

rooted in the traditions of Western music, including both liturgical (religious) and secularWhile a more accurate term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the Classical period), this article is about the broad span of time from roughly the 11th century to the present day, which includes the Classical period and various other periods. music.

CountryCountry music is a genre of United

States popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the 1920s.[1] It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of United States, such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk music), Blues music, andWestern music.

ElectronicThis is a list of electronic music

genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology.

JazzJazz is a music genre that originated

from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It emerged 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

Pop/RockPop rock is a fusion genre that mixes a

catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music.

RapRap is "spoken or chanted rhyming

lyrics". The components of rapping include "content", "flow" (rhythm and rhyme), and "delivery".Rapping is distinct from spoken-word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat (external meter). Rapping is often associated with and a primary ingredient of hip-hop music.