Genres
Blues:
This genre originated from the African-American communities of primarily the deep south of the United States of America at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues songs are primarily played with bent or flattened in relation to the major scale. An artist well known for his blues genre is B.B. King. Here he is in this video playing a sample of the blues genre.
Classical:
This genre originates from the traditions of Western European liturgical and secular music. It is one of the oldest and most far reaching genres of music. It began from approximately the 11th century and continues its popularity still today. An example of classical music is Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Country:
Country music is a blend of traditional and popular US musical forms found in the Southern United States and the Canadian Maritimes. In the Southwestern United States a different mix of ethnic groups created the music that became the Western Music. The term “country music” is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. Country music has produced the top selling solo artists of all time in the United States like Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton.
Electronic:
This type is music is made only by using only electronic instruments in its production. It became popular in the 1960s when the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common. Here is an example.
Funk:
Funk is a music genre that originated in the late 1960’s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk music was a major influence on the development of disco music and afro beat. Funk samples have been used extensively in genres including hip hop, house music and drum and bass. It is also the main influence of go-go, a subgenre associated with funk.
Gospel:
Gospel music expresses is written to express belief. It is also written to give a Christian an alternative to mainstream music. Many popular Motown and Afro American artists started out in their careers signing gospel music. Here is Aretha Franklin singing gospel music at the age of just 14.
Hip Hop:
This is an American genre that began in the Hip Hop movement. This genre has four key elements; DJing, dancing, rapping and graffiti writing. The Hip Hop movement started in the 1960’s. Since then like many other genres samples of it has been taken from it to make new sub genres. An example of Hip Hop would be MC Hammer’s ‘You Can’t Touch This’.
Jazz:
Jazz is a genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was created from a merging of African and European music traditions. From its creation until the present date, jazz has incorporated American popular music, from 19th and 20th century. Its West African origins are evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, poly rhythms, syncopation, and the swung note. From its beginnings in the early 20th century jazz has created a variety of subgenres. Some examples are; New Orleans Dixieland dating, big band-style swing, bebop, a variety of Latin jazz fusions, such as Afro-Cuban and free jazz, jazz fusion, acid jazz (which combines funk and hip-hop elements), and nu jazz.
Latin American:
Latin American music was created during the Moorish occupation of Spain. The musical styles of the Roma, Jews, Spanish Christians and Moors contributed to the evolution of Latin music. The adoption of Moorish instruments and improvised high-pitched nasal singing, and the characteristic Roma vocal trill spread to all parts of the Iberian Peninsula. Colonization of the Americas carried with it these Spanish musical traits. The Spanish Décima song had a layout of ten lines, each consisting of eight syllables, remains an important part of Latin music, as an aspect of corrido, bolero, and vallenato.
Metal:
Metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States. It has roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock. The bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with strong and or aggressive masculine pride.
The first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences. In the mid-1970s Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar way. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a worldwide following of fans known as "metal heads" or "head bangers".
Reggae:
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly symbolises a particular music style that originated following on the development of “SKA” and rock-steady. Reggae is based on a rhythmic style of music, characterized by accents on the off-beat, known as the “skank”. Reggae is normally slower than both “ska” and rock-steady. Reggae usually accents the second and fourth beat in each bar, with the rhythm guitar also either emphasizing the third beat or holding the chord on the second beat until the fourth is played. It is mainly this "third beat", its speed and the use of complex bass lines that differentiated reggae from rock-steady, although later styles incorporated these advances separately.
Rock:
Rock music is a genre of music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its origins come from the 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music was also influenced strongly by a number of other genres such as blues and folk, jazz, classical and other musical sources.
Pop:
Pop music, a term that originally comes from an abbreviation of the term "popular", is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often with a target audience of the youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs using technological advances to produce new variations on existing themes. Pop music has taken influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll.
The singer and song that I have chosen is based on this genre. The song is about how celebrities that we see in the magazines make us feel ugly because of the perfect images that are in the magazines. It has also drawn influences from the rock genre due to its angry sounding tone and up-beat rhythm. The song took inspiration from other pop, rock artists such as Katy Perry and Pink
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