The document provides descriptions of various music genres including: - Bangra, a dance music originating in Punjab that celebrates the harvest season. - Hip hop, developing in the 1970s Bronx from elements like rapping, DJing, sampling, and beatboxing. - Emo, originating from 1980s hardcore punk and incorporating melodic musicianship and confessional lyrics. - Pop, rock, and R&B music, covering their origins and evolution over time. - Additional genres discussed include grime, indie, gothic metal, gothic rock, and rock and roll. Each genre overview includes 1-2 defining characteristics and an example song.

1. Music
Tribes
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extract of music of the described genre.

2. Bangra
Bangra is a form of dance and music that originated in the Punjab region. Bhangra dance began
as a folk dance conducted by Punjabi Sikh farmers to celebrate the coming of the harvest
season. The specific moves of Bhangra reflect the manner in which villagers farmed their
land. This dance art further became synthesized after the partition of India, this was when
refugees from different parts of the Punjab shared their folk dances with individuals who
moved to the regions they settled in. This hybrid dance became Bhangra. The folk dance has
been popularized in the western world by Punjabi Sikhs and is seen in the West as an
expression of South Asian culture as a whole. Today, Bhangra dance survives in different
forms and styles all over the globe – including pop music, film soundtracks, collegiate
competitions and even talent shows.
Imran Khan - Bewafa

3. Hip Hop
Hip hop music is a musical genre that developed as part of hip hop culture, and is defined
by four key stylistic elements:
• Rapping
• DJing/scratching
• Sampling (or synthesis)
• Beatboxing
Hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City in the 1970s. The term rap is often
associated with hip hop, but hip hop denotes the practices of an entire subculture.
Rapping, also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the artist
speaks lyrically, in verse and rhyme, generally to an instrumental or synthesized beat.
Beats, almost always in 4/4 time signature, can be created by sampling and/or sequencing
portions of other songs by a producer. They also incorporate synthesizers, drum machines,
and live bands. Rappers may write, memorize, or improvise their lyrics and perform their
works a cappella or to a beat.
Drake - Headliines

4. Emo
Emo is a style of rock music usually characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive,
often confessional, outrageous and inappropriate lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s
hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or
"emocore". As the style was echoed by contemporary American punk rock bands, its sound and
meaning shifted and changed, blending with pop punk and indie rock all coming together in the
early 1990s. By the mid 1990s numerous Emo acts emerged from the Midwestern and Central
United States, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the style. In
recent years the term "Emo" has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of
artists, including multiplatinum acts and groups with disparate styles and sounds. “Screamo”
is a sub genre of Emo. In addition to music, "emo" is usually used more generally to signify
a particular relationship between fans and artists, and to describe related aspects of
fashion, culture, and behaviour. Emo music is usually rebellious and outrageous, as audience
we can see this through the types of music videos that are made to go with the song.
Black Veil Brides –
Knives and Pens

5. Pop music (an abbreviation for "Popular music") is usually understood to be commercially
recorded music, usually aimed towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short,
simple love songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing
themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a
genre it is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style. The term
"Pop song," was first recorded as being used in 1926 in the sense of a piece of music "having
popular appeal". Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in
the1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country,
blues and hillbilly music.
Pop
Justin Bieber – Fa La La

6. Traditional and Modern
Rhythm and Blues
[RnB]
Rhythm and blues, usually abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music
that originated in the 1940s.The term was originally used by record companies to describe
recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when “Rocking,
Urbane, Jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. The term
has had a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s and beyond, the term rhythm and
blues was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the 1950s, after this style of
music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to
music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul
music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the
1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as contemporary R&B.
Trey Songz –
Say Aah
MODERN Traditional
Billie Holiday –
Strange Fruit

7. Grime
Grime is a genre of urban music that first emerged in Bow, East London, England in the early
2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, Dancehall, and Hip Hop. Grime, however, is a
cross pollinated genre, taking influence from a variety of different cultural styles as well
as musical ones and is therefore still in many respects considered to be underground music,
even after mainstream exposure. It exists in a largely informal economy in which most artists
make their debuts on independently-produced battle DVDs that, like mix tapes are sold out of
barbershops and make their way around the city. Artists receive a lot of help from pirates
and radio stations which keep the public up to date with the music. Even though grime is very
popular in the UK, many recording labels have yet to acknowledge its presence as a genre that
can compete in the global market. Grime artists usually make their fame and popularity
through social networking sight such as Twitter, Facebook, Grime Blog, Grime Daily, S.B TV,
Grime music does not tend to come on music channels like MTV, it usually comes on channels
like Channel A.K.A, Flava and Starz, there are also TV programmes that interview upcoming
grime artists, programmes like Tim Westwood TV.
Chipmunk – Sometimes
For Example - Grimeblog.com
a social networking site
that upcoming grime artists
post their work and music
on.
http://grimeblog.com/
For Example - “Tim Westwood
TV” a television programme
hosted by well known DJ Tim
Westwood, the programme is
based around interviews
from up coming grime
artists and well known
grime artists at the
moment.
http://www.youtube.com/timw
estwoodtv

8. Indie
Indie rock is a genre of Rock music, and a means of producing that music, that originated in the United Kingdom
and the United States in the 1980s. It is rooted in earlier genres such as Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, and new
wave.The meaning of the term "Indie Rock" is contested today by many musicians, fans and commentators. Some use
the term "indie" to describe any music produced by artists working within the network of independent record
labels and underground music venues that emerged in the United States and elsewhere in 1980's and 1990's. Others
understand Indie Rock as a distinct genre of Rock music with a specific artistic beauty, and care less about the
context in which it is made. Many embrace both meanings of the word, believing that the beauty of the genre and
its means of production are deeply linked together. Indie rock artists are known for placing a premium on
maintaining complete control of their music and careers, releasing albums on independent record labels and
relying on touring, word-of-mouth, airplay on independent or college radio stations and, in recent years, the
Internet for promotion. However, in the 2000's many acts with a musical style identified as "indie" signed to
major record labels or their subsidiaries, and began promoting themselves through more traditional media
outlets. This has led to a further blurring in the meaning of the term.
A variety of musical genres and subgenres with varying degrees of overlap are associated with indie rock. Some
of these include :
• Pop
• Indie Pop
• Indie Folk
• Dance Punk
Oasis – Wonderwall

9. Gothic
Metal
Gothic metal or Goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Gothic metal combines the
aggression of Heavy Metal with the dark unhappiness of Gothic Rock. The music of Gothic Metal
is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of Heavy Metal
music. Lyrics are generally melodramatic and mournful with inspiration from Gothic fiction as
well as personal experiences. Gothic Metal is generally characterised by its dark
atmospheres. The adjective "dark" is commonly used to describe Gothic Music in general while
other terms that are less frequently used include deep, depressing, romantic, passionate and
intense. Gothic Metal is a varied genre with bands pursuing many different directions, from
"Slow and Crushing variations" to "Orchestral and Bombastic".
Deep Purple – Smoke on
the Water

10. Gothic
Rock
Paralisis Permanente – Heroes
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of Post-Punk and alternative Rock that formed during the
late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English Punk Rock and
emerging Post-Punk scenes. The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from Punk Rock
during the early 1980s largely due to the significant differences in style of the movement;
Gothic rock, as opposed to punk, combines dark, often keyboard-heavy music with emotional and
depressing lyrics. Gothic rock gave rise to a broader Goth subculture that includes clubs,
fashion and numerous publications that grew in popularity in the 1980s.

11. Rock and Roll
Elvis Presley – Burning Love
Rock and Roll is a genre of popular music that actually originated and evolved in
the USA during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African
American Blues, Country, Jazz, Folk, and lastly Gospel music. Though elements of rock and
roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records from the 1920s, rock
and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s. The term “Rock and Roll” has different
connotations two of the most predominant and well known being as synonymous with Rock music
and the other being that is it the music that originated in the mid 1950’s and later evolved
into a more enveloping international style most commonly recognised as Rock music. Far beyond
simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced
lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language