2. Blues
• Blues is a genre and musical form
originated by African Americans
in the Deep South of the United
States around the end of the 19th
century. The genre developed from
roots in African musical
traditions, African-American work
songs and European-American
folk music. Blues incorporated
spirituals, work songs, field
hollers, shouts, chants, and
rhymed simple narrative ballads
3. Country
• Country music is a genre of United
States popular music that originated
in the Southern United States in the
1920s. It takes its roots from the
southeastern genre of United States,
such as folk music and blues music.
Blues modes have been used
extensively throughout its recorded
history. Country music often consists
of ballads and dance tunes with
generally simple forms and harmonies
accompanied by mostly string
instruments such as banjos, electric
and acoustic guitars, dobros and
fiddles as well as harmonicas.
4. Electronic
• Electronic music is music that
employs electronic musical
instruments and electronic music
technology in its production, an
electronic musician being a
musician who composes and/or
performs such music. In general a
distinction can be made between
sound produced using
electromechanical means and that
produced using electronic
technology.
5. Hip-Hop/Rap
• music, also called hip-hop or rap
music, is a music genre formed in the
United States in the 1970s that
consists of a stylized rhythmic music
that commonly accompanies rapping,
a rhythmic and rhyming speech that
is chanted.
• It developed as part of hip hop
culture, a subculture defined by four
key stylistic elements:
MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching,
break dancing, and graffiti
writing.[Other elements include
sampling (or synthesis), and
beatboxing.
6. Rock
• Rock music is a genre of popular
music that originated as "rock and
roll" in the United States in the
1950s, and developed into a range
of different styles in the 1960s
and later, particularly in the
United Kingdom and the United
States. It has its roots in 1940s'
and 1950s' rock and roll, itself
heavily influenced by blues,
rhythm and blues and country
music.
