This document discusses different music genres including rap, pop, reggae, rock, metal, and jazz. It provides examples of popular artists within each genre such as Eminem, Drake, Bob Marley, Imagine Dragons, and Louis Armstrong. The document also compares rap and hip hop, noting that rap focuses more on storytelling while hip hop music is often made for remixes. Finally, it summarizes that both rock and hip hop share thumping beats and that reggae was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s using instruments like bass guitar, drums, organ, and horns and was influenced by mento as well as jazz and R&B.

1. Media task 1 unit 1
By Ben Goldstone

2. Genres of music
• Rapping Eminem, Drake Stormzy, Bugsy Malone, Kanye west
• Pop Gary Barlow, Jason Mraz, , Chris brown, Usher
• Reggae Bob Marley
• Rock Alex Clare imagine dragons.
• Metal bring me the horizon, park way drive
• Jazz Louis Armstrong

3. The difference between Rap and Hip hop
• A lot of Rappers talk about there life or about them they share there
story.
• Some rappers talk really fast as Hip hop is usually made up and house
music. Hip hop is used to make remixes as well.
• Rap music is the combination of rhyming and poetry to a beat.
• Some people have described Hip-Hop as a way of life.

4. The similarities between Rock and Hip hop
• Thumping beats of hip-hop music or the screaming guitars of rock.

5. Reggae
Reggae has been around for many years Bob
Marley was a very famous reggae artist and
had many popular songs that are still played
today.
He done lots of charity’s for African children.
Reggae is a music genre first developed in
Jamaica in the late 1960s
The bass guitar, Drums, Organ and Horns was
an instrument used to make Reggae music.
Reggae was influenced by traditional mento as
well as American jazz and rhythm and blues.