Music

Country music

Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular
music that takes its roots from genres such as blues, American folk music (especially Appalachian and Western
music). Its popularized roots originate in the Southern United States of the early 1920s.
Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies
mostly accompanied by string instruments such as the African instrument banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel
guitars(such as pedal steels and dobros), and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively
throughout its recorded history.
According to Lindsey Starnes, the term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier
termhillbilly  music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots,
in the mid-20th century. In 2009 in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre
during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute.

Flamenco

Flamenco ( in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the
autonomous community of Andalusia and Murcia. In a wider sense, the term is used to refer to a variety of Spanish
musical styles. The oldest record of flamenco music dates to 1774 in the book Las Cartas Marruecas by José
Cadalso (Akombo 2016, 240–241). Flamenco has been influenced by and associated with the Romani people in
Spain; however, its origin and style are uniquely Andalusian (Hayes 2009, 31–37).
The exact origin of flamenco is unknown and the subject of many hypotheses. The most widespread is that flamenco
was developed through the cross-cultural interchange between native
Andalusians, Romani, Castilians, Moors andSephardic Jews in Andalusia during the Moorish occupation. Federico
García Lorca wrote that the presence of flamenco in Andalusia significantly predates the arrival of Romani people to
the region.However, the Diccionario de la lengua española (Dictionary of the Spanish Language) primarily attributes
the creation of the style directly to the Spanish Romani.

House

House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four on the floor beat and a tempo of 120 to
130 beats per minute. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture in the
1980s, as DJs from the subculture began altering disco dance tracks to give them a more mechanical beat and
deeperbasslines.
The genre was pioneered by DJs and producers mainly from Chicago and New York such as Frankie Knuckles, Larry
Levan, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Mr. Fingers, Marshall
Jefferson, Phuture, and many others. Its origins derive from within the Black American LGBT communities but has
since spread to the mainstream. From its beginnings in the Chicago club and local radio scene, the genre expanded
internationally to London, then to other American cities such as New York City and Detroit, and has become a
worldwide phenomenon ever since.
Rap

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a genre of popular music developed in the United
States by inner-city African Americans and Latino Americans in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s. It
consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is
chanted.It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic
elements: MCing/rapping,DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements
include sampling beats orbass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing. While
often used to refer solely to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture.The
term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music,though rapping is not a required
component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including
DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.

Rock and Roll

Rock and Roll Music" is a 1957 hit single written and recorded by rock and roll star Chuck Berry. The song has been
widely covered and is recognized as one of Berry's most popular and enduring compositions. In the fall of 1957, his
recording reached number 6 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart and number 8 on its Hot 100 chart.
The song has been recorded by many well-known artists. The Beatles' 1964 recording topped singles charts in Europe
and in Australia, and the Beach Boys had a U.S. top ten hit with the song in 1976.Other artists who have covered the
song include Bill Haley & His Comets, Dickie Rock and the Miami Showband, REO Speedwagon, Mental As
Anything,Humble Pie, Manic Street Preachers, and Bryan Adams. Berry performed it on December 16, 1957,
on ABC's short-livedvariety program The Guy Mitchell Show.In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Berry's version
number 128 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".The song is also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.

Rock

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early
1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the
United Kingdom.It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily from the genres
of blues,rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also drew strongly from a number of other genres
such aselectric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical styles. Musically,
rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass, drums, and one or
more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a 4/4 time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre
has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of
other themes that are frequently social or political.
By the late 1960s "classic rock"period, a number of distinct rock music subgenres had emerged, including hybrids
likeblues rock, folk rock, country rock, southern rock, raga rock, and jazz-rock, many of which contributed to the
development of psychedelic rock, which was influenced by the countercultural psychedelic and hippie scene.
R&B
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African
Americancommunities in the 1940s.The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings
marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy,
insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through
the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and
sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and
the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, economics, and aspirations.
The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently
applied to blues records.Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and
roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well
asgospel and soul music. In the 1960s, several British rock bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Who and the
Animalswere referred to and promoted as being R&B bands; posters for the Who's residency at the Marquee Club in
1964 contained the slogan, "Maximum R&B".

Reggae

Reggae  is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular
music of Jamaica and its diaspora.A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular
song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.While sometimes
used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes
a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz andrhythm and
blues, especially the New Orleans R&B practiced by Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint, and evolved out of the earlier
genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. Reggae spread into
a commercialized jazz field, being known first as "rudie blues", then "ska", later "blue beat", and "rock steady".It is
instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The
immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a
percussion instrument.

Punk

Punk rock (or simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1960s garage rock, punk
bands rejected the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with
hard-edged melodies and singing styles, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics.
Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent record
labels.

The term "punk rock" was first used by American rock critics in the early 1970s to describe 1960s garage bands and
certain subsequent acts they perceived as stylistic inheritors. When the movement now bearing the name developed
from 1974 to 1976, acts such as Television, Patti Smith, and the Ramones in New York City; the Sex Pistols, the
Clash, and the Damned in London; and the Saints in Brisbane formed its vanguard. As 1977 approached, punk became
a major cultural phenomenon in the UK. It spawned a punk subculture expressing youthful rebellion through
distinctivestyles of clothing and adornment (such as deliberately offensive T-shirts, leather jackets, studded or spiked
bands and jewelry, safety pins, and bondage and S&M clothes) and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies.
Pop

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern forms in the US and the UK during the mid-
1950s.The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all
music that is popular and includes many diverse styles. "Pop" and "rock" were roughly synonymous terms until the
late 1960s, when they became quite separated from each other.Although much of the music that appears on record
charts is seen as pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Pop music often borrows elements from other
styles such as urban, dance, rock, Latin, and country; nevertheless, there are many key elements that define pop
music. Identifying factors usually include short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-
chorus structure), as well as common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes and hooks.

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