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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues is a genre of popular African American music created in the 1940s to the 1950s. The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat"...
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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...
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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Doo-wop
Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music, which developed in African-American communities in the 1940s and which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. An African-American vocal style known as doo-wop emerged from the...
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Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name. In the early 1970s, some rock...
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Power pop
Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical...
East Coast hip hop
East Coast hip hop is a form of hip hop music that originated and developed in New York City, USA during the 1970s and early 1980s. The style emerged as a definitive subgenre after artists from other regions of the United States emerged with...
West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music which originates in the westernmost region of the United States. Although the culture of hip hop was given its name in New York City, it is believed by some that...
Rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s.
The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock (from rock 'n' roll) and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music (often called hillbilly...
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Psychobilly
Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres. It is one of several subgenres of rockabilly which also include thrashabilly, trashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly, and gothabilly....
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Hard bop
Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing.
David H. Rosenthal also contends in his book...
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Neo soul
Neo soul (also known as nu soul or Underground soul) is a sub-genre of contemporary R&B; or poetry with music. The main difference between neo soul and the more popular sub-genres of R&B; is that it is the most ethnocentric type of R&B.; Neo soul...
Soul jazz
Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which incorporated strong influences from blues, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often the organ trio which featured the Hammond organ. Important soul jazz organists included Bill...
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Boogaloo
Boogaloo or bugalú (also, shing-a-ling, latin boogaloo, latin R&B;) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was popular in the United States in the 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans, Puerto Ricans and other groups....
Mod
Mod (originally modernist, sometimes capitalised) is a subculture that originated in London, England in the late 1950s and peaked in the early to mid 1960s.
Significant elements of the mod subculture include: fashion (often tailor-made suits); pop...
Hip hop soul
Hip hop soul is the second major subgenre of contemporary R&B.; The term generally describes a style of music that blends soulful R&B; singing and raw hip hop production. The genre served as the middle point between two other hip hop/R&B; blends,...
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Punk blues
Punk blues (or blues punk) denotes a fusion genre of punk rock and blues. Punk blues musicians and bands usually incorporate elements of related styles, such as protopunk music and blues-rock. Its origins lie strongly within the garage rock sound of...
Jazz-funk
Jazz-funk is a sub-genre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds, and often, the presence of the first electronic analog synthesizers. The integration of Funk, Soul, and R&B; music and styles into jazz resulted...
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Glam punk
Glam punk (or glitter punk) is a music genre that mixes elements of glam rock with protopunk or punk rock (and sometimes garage rock).
The most influential glam punk band has been New York Dolls, whose androgynous image and raw, loose music style...
Slow jam
A slow jam is typically a song with an R&B-influenced; melody. Slow jams are commonly R&B; ballads or just downtempo songs. The term is most commonly reserved for soft-sounding songs with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content. The common use...
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Deathcountry
Deathcountry is a country music genre, best described as traditional country music with a morbid anarchist Punk rock and Psychobilly attitude. Big influences include Hank Williams III and Johnny Cash's "American Recordings."
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Brown-eyed soul
Brown-eyed soul is a subgenre of soul music or rhythm and blues created in the United States mainly by Italian Americans and Latinos during the 1950s and thriving into the 1980s. The genre of soul music occasionally draws from Latin and Italian folk...
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Trash rock
Trash rock is a genre of rock'n'roll that shares the same influences as early punk, but diverges in that it's largely apolitical, often containing 1930s-70s pulp fiction novel and B-movie themes and imagery. Its earliest origins are in the...
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...
