Music Genres
The term Music Genres refers to the different types of music you get. Some of these are:
- rock n roll
- rap
- R&B
1. Rock and roll is a type of music that developed in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and rapidly spread to the rest of the world. Initially during late 1940s and early 1950s, the piano and saxophone were the leading instruments, but these were replaced by the guitar in the middle to late 1950s.
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2. Rap
Hip hop music is a kind of music consisting of rhythmic style of speaking called rap, over backing beats performed on a record player by a DJ. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in New York City in the 1970s, mainly among African Americans and Latinos (two other elements are breakdancing and graffiti art). The term rap is sometimes used with hip hop music, though it originally referred only to rapping itself.
Rap is a vocal style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat. Beats are traditionally sampled from portions of other songs by a DJ, while synthesizers drum machines, and live bands are also used, particularly in newer music.
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3. R&B
Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combined jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.
Writer/producer Robert Palmer defined "rhythm & blues as a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans." He has used the term R&B as a synonym for jump blues. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that rhythm and blues was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience. According to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music.
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