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The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. Belushi and Aykroyd, respectively in character as lead vocalist "Joliet" Jake Blues and harpist/vocalist Elwood Blues,...
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Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and...
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- x Subgenres:
- Country,
- Neotraditional country,
- Psychobilly,
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- Neotraditional country,
- x Artists:
- Steve Miller Band,
- Stevie Ray Vaughan,
- Jimmie Vaughan,
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- Stevie Ray Vaughan,
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...
- x Parent genres:
- Brown-eyed soul,
- Soul music,
- Guitar Mashing
- Soul music,
- x Subgenres:
- West Coast hip hop,
- Funk metal,
- New Wave,
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- Funk metal,
- x Artists:
- Rosie Gaines,
- Bob.,
- Danger:Radio,
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- Bob.,
Jazz
Jazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
From its early development until the present,...
- x Parent genres:
- Popular music,
- Guitar Mashing
- x Subgenres:
- Free improvisation,
- Free jazz,
- Psychedelic rock,
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- Free jazz,
- x Artists:
- Benny Goodman,
- Jan Garbarek,
- Stéphane Grappelli,
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- Jan Garbarek,
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...
- x Parent genres:
- Rockabilly
- x Subgenres:
- Punkabilly,
- Glam rock,
- Psychobilly,
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- Glam rock,
- x Artists:
- The Police,
- Electrico,
- Alan Murphy,
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- Electrico,
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...
- x Parent genres:
- Black gospel,
- Brown-eyed soul,
- Soul music,
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- Brown-eyed soul,
- x Subgenres:
- West Coast hip hop,
- East Coast hip hop,
- Psychobilly,
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- East Coast hip hop,
- x Artists:
- The Troggs,
- Rosie Gaines,
- SOUL'd OUT,
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- Rosie Gaines,
Blue-eyed soul
Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists. The term was first used in the mid-1960s to describe white artists who performed soul and R&B; that was similar to the music of the Motown and...
- x Parent genres:
- Soul music
- x Subgenres:
- x Artists:
- Cold Blood,
- Lydia Pense,
- Bonnie Raitt,
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- Lydia Pense,
Blues-rock
Blues-rock is a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, bass guitar and drum kit, with the...
- x Parent genres:
- Jam band,
- Rock music
- x Subgenres:
- Heavy metal,
- Progressive rock,
- Jam band
- Progressive rock,
- x Artists:
- The Black Swans,
- Badlands,
- Box Of Frogs,
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- Badlands,
