Musical genre
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A Musical genre represents a style or classification of music and can be useful in identifying similar musical artists or albums. Genres can also contain other genres, or be influenced by other genres. The genre of a Musical Artist or Musical Album...
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| Classic rock | Topic | Classic metal |
Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock (AOR) format in the early-1980s. In the United States, this rock music format now features a large but limited playlist of songs ranging from the early-1960s through the early-1980s with more emphasis on the earlier hits by artists associated with the loosely-defined "classic rock era".
The origins of the classic rock radio format can be traced back to The Beatles'...
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| Blues |
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Topic | Country |
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue note. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field holler, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballad. The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of Africa influence. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music, as it became the roots of jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and...
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| Musical genre | Neotraditional country | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | Psychobilly | ||||
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| Black metal |
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Topic | Heavy metal | Folk metal |
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It is typically abrasive and usually makes use of fast tempos, high-pitched electric guitars often played with tremolo picking, high-pitched shrieking vocals, and unconventional song structures. It is prone to experimentation and certain elements typical to black metal are not always used by every band within the subgenre.
The first bands to pioneer the style were mostly thrash metal bands that formed the prototype for black metal in the early...
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| Musical genre | Thrash metal | National Socialist black metal | |||
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| Country | Topic | Old-time music | Country-rap |
Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s. The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading, and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s, while country and western has declined in use since that time, except...
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| Musical genre | Celtic music | Jug band | |||
| Broadcast Genre | Blues | Alternative country | |||
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| Christian alternative rock | Topic |
Christian alternative rock music (ACM) is a form of alternative rock music lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview. Unlike Contemporary Christian music, ACM generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content. The degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.
Christian alternative rock has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave music were recorded by artists like Daniel Amos, Andy McCarroll and Moral Support,...
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| Disco |
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Topic | Soul music | West Coast hip hop |
Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music whose origins, like other genres of music, are hard to place at a single defining point. In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs in February 1970 New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home. Most agree that the first disco songs were released in 1973, but some claim Manu Dibango's 1972 Soul Makossa to be the first disco record.. The first article about disco was written in...
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| Musical genre | New Wave | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | East Coast hip hop | ||||
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| Drum and bass |
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Topic | Ambient music | Techstep |
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b;, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle which emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is characterised by fast tempo broken beat drums (generally between 160–180 beats per minute) with heavy sub bassline. In the 2000s, drum and bass is still considered an underground musical style, but it has nevertheless had a significant influence on popular music and culture.
Drum and bass began as an...
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| Musical genre | Techno | Clownstep | |||
| Samba | Neurofunk | ||||
| Darkcore | Downtempo | ||||
| Breakbeat | Raggacore | ||||
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| Death metal |
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Topic | Heavy metal | Avant garde metal |
Death metal is an extreme heavy metal subgenre. The genre is typically characterized by the use of heavily-distorted guitars, harsh vocals that are low-pitched and/or growled, morbid lyrics, exceptionally fast-paced rhythms and melodies, frequent blast beats on drums, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Building off the speed and complexity of thrash metal, death metal came to true prominence by the mid 1980s. Bands like Slayer, Possessed and pioneer death metal bands...
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| Musical genre | Thrash metal | Dark metal | |||
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| Electronic art music |
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Topic | 20th century classical music | Electroacoustic music |
Electronic art music refers to those forms of electronic music that fall within the general category of art music. The term encompasses a range of experimental music forms, both historical and contemporary, created by means of electronic instrument and differentiated from electronic forms of popular music, such as electronic rock, technopop, electronica or electronic dance music. Although electronic art music has not penetrated the popular music marketplace directly, it has influenced the...
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| Musical genre | Electronic music | Noise music | |||
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| Funk |
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Topic | Brown-eyed soul | West Coast hip hop |
Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B; into a rhythmic, dance new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony, and brings a strong rhythm groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground. Unlike R&B; and soul songs, which had many chord changes, funk songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord.
Like much of African inspired music, funk typically consists of a...
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| Musical genre | Soul music | Funk metal | |||
| Broadcast Genre | New Wave | ||||
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| Flamenco |
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Topic | Sephardic music | New Flamenco |
Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre with strong, rhythmic undertones and is often accompanied with a similarly impassioned style of dance characterized by its powerful yet graceful execution, as well as its intricate hand and footwork. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain in general, flamenco actually originates from one region: Andalusia. However, other areas, mainly Extremadura and Murcia, have contributed to the...
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| Musical genre | Mozarabic chant | Tangos | |||
| Flamenco | Alegrías | ||||
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| Grindcore |
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Topic | Heavy metal | Deathgrind |
Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of crust punk, most commonly associated with death metal, a very different though similarly extreme style of music.
Grindcore is characterized by heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, with crust punk-influenced riff; hardcore punk and thrash metal drumming, with many bands focusing on blast beat; songs rarely lasting more than two minute (and are often second long); vocals which consist of growls and higher-pitched screams, similar to...
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| Musical genre | Thrash metal | Goregrind | |||
| Thrashcore | Power violence | ||||
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| Heavy metal |
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Topic | Psychedelic rock | Black metal |
Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion and extended guitar solos. Allmusic states that "of all rock & roll's myriad forms, heavy metal is the most extreme in terms of volume, machismo, and theatricality."
Heavy metal has long had a worldwide following...
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| Musical genre | Blues-rock | Death metal | |||
| Broadcast Genre | European Classical music | Grindcore | |||
| Hard rock | Nu metal | ||||
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| House music |
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Topic | Soul music | Booty House |
House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJ in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s . House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco. House music takes disco's use of a prominent bass drum on every beat and developed a new style by mixing in a heavy electronic synthesizer bassline, electronic drums, electronic effects, funk and pop samples, and reverb- or delay-enhanced vocals.
The common...
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| Musical genre | Synthpop | Electronica | |||
| Broadcast Genre | Funk | Tribal house | |||
| Disco | Neurofunk | ||||
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| Mambo | Topic | Son montuno | Salsa music |
Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo (which means conversation with the gods) is the name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo. The name is derived from the language of the African slaves who were imported into the Caribbean.
The history of modern mambo begins in 1938, when a danzón called "Mambo" was written by Orestes and Cachao López. The song was a danzón, descended from European social dance like the English country dance, French contredanse and Spanish contradanza,...
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| Musical genre | Son | Cha-cha-cha | |||
| Big band | Boogaloo | ||||
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| New Wave |
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Topic | Glam rock | Synthpop |
New Wave was a music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early-to-mid 1980s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s. New Wave incorporated various influences such as the rock 'n' roll styles of the pre-hippie era, ska, reggae, power pop, the mod subculture, electronic music, disco, funk, etc.
The term New Wave itself is a source of much confusion. It was introduced in 1976 in Great Britain by Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren as an...
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| Musical genre | Disco | Mod Revival | |||
| Broadcast Genre | Punk rock | New Romantic | |||
| Ska | Electropop | ||||
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| Nu metal |
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Topic | Funk metal |
Nu metal (also known as new metal or nü metal) is a musical genre that emerged in the mid 1990s which fuses influences from grunge and alternative metal with funk music, hip hop and various heavy metal genres, such as thrash metal and groove metal.
Nu metal music emphasizes mood, rhythm, and texture over melody. Often, nu metal songs use rhythmic, syncopated riff played on distorted electric guitar with strings detuned to lower pitches to create a dark and thick sound.
Like the bands of its...
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| Musical genre | Alternative metal | ||||
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| Punk rock |
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Topic | Glam rock | Gothic rock |
Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that emerged in the mid-1970s. Preceded by a variety of protopunk music of the 1960s and early 1970s, punk rock developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Groups such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. By 1977, punk was spreading around the world.
Punk rock bands eschewed the...
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| Musical genre | Mod | Punkabilly | |||
| Film subject | Rockabilly | Paisley Underground | |||
| Film genre | Rock music | Funk metal | |||
| Broadcast Genre | New Romantic | ||||
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| Psychedelic rock |
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Topic | Folk rock | Goa trance |
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs.The musical style typically features electric guitars, 12 strings being preferred for their 'jangle'; elaborate studio effects - backwards taping, panning (sound placement in the stereo field), phasing, long delay loops and extreme reverb; exotic instrumentation, with a particular fondness for the sitar and tabla; A strong keyboard presence, especially Hammond, Farfisa and...
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| Musical genre | British rock | Paisley Underground | |||
| Jazz | Art rock | ||||
| Garage rock | Kosmische Musik | ||||
| Blues | Heavy metal | ||||
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| Pop music |
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Topic | Dance music | New Wave |
Pop music is music charted by the number or sales, plays, etc., that the work receives. It is not a particular genre or style of music, but simply that which is the most popular for the tracked period of time. Most commercial music of any genre is composed with deliberate intent to appeal to the majority of its contemporaries, but, unless extremely popular in its own genre, it must to appeal to a wider audience to appear on the pop charts.
In opposition to music that may require education or...
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| Musical genre | Rhythm and blues | Pop-rap | |||
| TV Genre | Rock music | Traditional pop music | |||
| Media genre | Russian pop | Power pop | |||
| Broadcast Genre | Pop punk | ||||
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| Rock music |
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Topic | Rockabilly | Nu metal | |