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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009), known as the "King of Pop", was an American musician and one of the most commercially successful and influential entertainers of all time. His unique contributions to music and dance, along with a highly publicized personal life, made him a...
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music that that had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. While disco was a form of black commercial...
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Funk
Funk is an American music genre that originated in the late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B; into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic...
Pop music
Pop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively...
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country music and also drew on folk music, jazz and classical music.
The sound of rock often...
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues (also known as R&B;, R'n'B or RnB) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings...
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Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the...
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New jack swing
New Jack Swing, or "swingbeat", is a hybrid style popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s, which fuses the rhythms, samples and production techniques of hip-hop with the urban contemporary sound of R&B.; The new jack swing style developed as...
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Motown Sound
The Motown Sound is a style of soul music with distinctive characteristics that was developed by the musicians, songwriter, and record producer at Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan. The style includes the use of tambourine, drums, bass guitar, a...
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Dance-pop
Dance-pop is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of pop music that evolved from post-disco era, circa 1981, that combines dance beats with a pop, House and/or R&B; song structure. Because there is such an emphasis on fully-formed songs...
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Dance music
This article is about dance music in general. You may also be looking for electronic dance music or dance-pop.
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger...
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B; (also known as R&B; and sometimes described as mainstream R&B;) is a music genre of western popular music. Although the acronym “R&B;” originates from its association with traditional rhythm and blues music, the term R&B; is today...
