This document defines and describes several genres of popular music including pop music, rock music, jazz music, rock n' roll, and country music. Pop music originated in the 1950s-1960s from rock and roll and other styles. Rock music also originated in the 1950s in the US and UK as rock and roll developed into different styles. Jazz originated in New Orleans in the late 19th/early 20th centuries from African American styles and has a performance orientation. Rock and roll developed from genres like blues and gospel and originated in the US in the 1940s-1950s. Country music originated in the southern US in the 1920s combining American folk music and Western music styles.

1. MUSIC
ALEJANDRA GUANOTOA
1ST BACH SANTIAGO
TECHNOLOGY
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2. POP MUSIC
Pop music is a genre of
popular music that
originated in its modern
form in the Western world
during the 1950s and
1960s, deriving from rock
and roll. The terms "popular
music" and "pop music" are
often used interchangeably,
although the former
describes all music that is
popular (and can include
any style).

3. ROCK MUSIC
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

4. Jazz is a music genre that
originated from African
American communities of New
Orleans in the United States
during the late 19th and early
20th centuries. It emerged in
the form of independent
traditional and popular musical
styles, all linked by the
common bonds of African
American and European
American musical parentage
with a performance orientation
JAZZ MUSIC

5. ROCK N' ROLL
Rock and roll (often written
as rock & roll or rock 'n'
roll) is a genre of popular
music that originated and
evolved in the United States
during the late 1940s and
early 1950s, from a
combination of African-
American genres such as
blues, boogie woogie,jump
blues, jazz, and gospel
music, together with
Western swing and country
music.

6. COUNTRY MUSIC
Country music is a genre
of American popular music
that originated in the
Southern United States in
the 1920s. It takes its roots
from the southeastern
genre of American folk
music and Western music.
Blues mode have been
used extensively throughout
itsrecorded history