- a genre and musical form that originated

in African-American communities in the "Deep South" of

the United States around the end of the 19th century.
- a fusion of traditional African music
and European folk music, spirituals, work songs, field
hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple
narrative ballads.
- the term may have come from the term "blue
devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use
of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's
one-act farce Blue Devils (1798).
• Delta blues
• Piedmont blues or East
Coast blues
• Jump blues
• Chicago blues
 - art music produced or rooted in the traditions
of Western music (both liturgical and secular).
- anything that "lasts a long time", characterized
into four: (a) literature; (b) instrumentation; (c)
performance; and (d) complexity.
- the term "classical music" did not appear until the
early 19th century, in an attempt to distinctly canonize
the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as
a golden age. The earliest reference to "classical music"
recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from about
1836.
• Symphony
• Opera
• Choral
• Chamber music
• Gregorian chant
• Madrigals
 - is music that developed from
Southern American folk and western
cowboy music in the rural regions of the
Southern United States in the 1920s.
- dance tunes and ballads with
harmonies and simple form played with
banjoes, acoustic and electric guitars,
harmonicas and fiddles.
• Early Country Music or Mountain Music
• Blue Grass Music
• Traditional Country music
• Cowboy and Western music
• Western Swing
• Honky Tonk
• Rockabilly
• Nashvile Sound
• Country Rock
• Bakersfield Sound
• Outlaw Country
• New Traditionalist
• Texas Country
• Alternative Country
• Contemporary Country
• Ambient
• Break
• Downtempo
• Electro music
• Electroacoustic music
• Electronica
• Electronic rock
• Eurodance
• Hard dance
• House music
• Industrial music
• Intelligent dance music
• Jungle
• Po s t - d i s c o
• Te c h n o
• Tr a n c e m u s i c
• UK garage
• New Orleans Jazz
• The Chicago Style
• Bebop
• Fusion Jazz music
 - originated among African-Americans’ inner-
city street culture in the 1970s. Rap is considered
as a mainstream type and is popular among
people of all ages and background around the
world.
- generally not sung. The words are spoken
with a backdrop of music borrowed from soul,
funk and rock pieces. Musicians remix sounds,
and rhythms with their own innovations and
synthesized musical elements.
• Gangsta Rap
• Political Rap
• Alternative Rap
• Crunk
 - characteristic of powerful and loud
bass drums and aggressive electric guitars.
It was developed in the United Kingdom in
the 1960s and early 1970s and also in the
United States. The words are usually about
provocative and controversial themes. Metal
music fans are referred to as head bangers
and metal heads.
• Avant Garde Metal
• Black Metal
• Celtic
• Death Metal
• Doom Metal
• Funk Metal
• Gothic
• Grindcore
• Groove Metal
• Hardcore Metal
• Nu-Metal
• Power metal
• Speed Metal
• Thrash Metal
 - characteristic of powerful and loud
bass drums and aggressive electric guitars.
It was developed in the United Kingdom in
the 1960s and early 1970s and also in the
United States. The words are usually about
provocative and controversial themes. Metal
music fans are referred to as head bangers
and metal heads.
• Rock n Roll
• Garage Rock
• Punk Rock
• Glam Rock
• Southern Rock
 - naturally originates from the broader Latin
world, mainly from Latin America with fusions by
Latinos of the United States as well as genres from
European countries such as Portugal and Spain.
- Language, the cultural background of the
artist, geography and music style are the main
elements that define Latin music. These four
elements fuse in different ways usually with a
combination of two or more of the main elements to
give a production the Latin Music Tag.
•Salsa
•Tango
•Merengue
 - Reggae Music arose from
Jamaica in the late 1960s.
- Reggae Music refers to a
style that developed from Ska
and Rock Steady.
• Roots
• Dub
• Dub Poetry
• Toasting
• Lover’s Rock
• Niyabingi
• Slack Dancehall
• Conscious Dancehall
 - developed between 1974 and 1976 in
the United States, United Kingdom, and
Australia.
- a type of Rock Music Genre based on
Garage rock Protopunk music. Bands made
hard-edged songs that were short, political,
anti-establishment with stripped down
instrumentation.
• Anarcho Punk
• Celtic Punk
• Cow Punk
• Gypsy or Immigrant Punk
• Pop Punk
 - Often, pop music is confused with popular music.
Whereas Pop music describes music that evolved from the
rock and roll revolution of the middle 1950s and continues in
a definite route today, popular music refers to music that is
associated with the tastes and interests of the urban middle
class during the period covering 1800s and industrialization
to date.
- From the 1950s until today, Pop music is identified as
the hits most often played on radio, that which attracts the
largest audiences, sells the most copies, and the musical
styles that displayed by the biggest audience therefore it is
really an amalgam of whatever is popular at any given
moment and doesn’t represent any specific genre(s).
 RHYTHM AND BLUES (R&B)
- Contemporary R&B, also known
as simply R&B, is a music genre that
combines elements of rhythm and
blues, soul, funk, pop, hip
hop and dance.
 Types of R&B
• Motown
• Funk
• Disco
• Doo-wop
• Club blues
• Jump Blues
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