Different Genres of Music Flashcards
It is a genre of popular music that originated in the West during the 1950s and 1960s. It is eclectic, often borrowing elements from urban dance, rock, Latin, country, and other styles.
Pop Music
These are songs that are typically short to medium length with repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and hooks.
Pop Music
It was originated from the United States in the 1970s and consists of stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rhythmic and rhyming speech.
Hip Hop or Rap Music
It is a genre of popular music that originated as “rock and roll” in the United States in the 1950s. It places a higher degree of emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology or authenticity.
Rock Music
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.
Rhythm and Blues
A popular music genre that combines elements of African American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz.
Soul Music
A music genre 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.
Reggae Music
A genre of United States popular 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
A music genre originated in the 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music that deemphasized melody and chord progressions to bring a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line and drum part to the foreground.
Funk 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.
Folk Music
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.
Jazz
Genre of dance containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa that achieved popularity during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s/.
Disco 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.
Classical Music
A large set of predominantly popular and dance genres in which synthesizers and other electronic instruments are the primary source of sound.
Electronic Music
It is characterized by the call-and-response pattern.
Blues
