Music Genre presentation by Razim Khan. Media Studies, A2 - Beaconhouse College Campus Gulberg BCCG

1. MUSIC GENRES

2. Types of Music Genres:
 Blues
 Classical
 Country
 Electronic
 Jazz
 Pop/Rock
 Rap

3. Blues
Blues is a genre[2] 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-
American work songs and European-
American folk music.[1] Blues
incorporated spirituals, work songs, field
hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed
simple narrative ballads.

4. Classical
Classical music is art music produced or
rooted in the traditions of Western music,
including both liturgical (religious)
and secularWhile a more accurate term is
also used to refer to the period from 1750
to 1820 (the Classical period), this article
is about the broad span of time from
roughly the 11th century to the present
day, which includes the Classical period
and various other periods. music.

5. Country
Country music is a genre of United States
popular music that originated in
the Southern United States in the
1920s.[1] It takes its roots from
the southeastern genre of United States,
such as folk
music (especially Appalachian folk
music), Blues music, andWestern music.

6. Electronic
This is a list of electronic music genres,
consisting of genres of electronic music,
primarily created with electronic musical
instruments or electronic music
technology. A distinction has been made
between sound produced using
electromechanical means and that
produced using electronic technology.

7. Jazz
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

8. Pop/Rock
Pop rock is a fusion genre that mixes a
catchy pop style and light lyrics in its
guitar-based rock songs. There are
varying definitions of the term, ranging
from a slower and mellower form of rock
music to a subgenre of pop music.

9. Rap
Rap is "spoken or chanted rhyming
lyrics". The components of rapping include
"content", "flow" (rhythm and rhyme), and
"delivery".Rapping is distinct from spoken-
word poetry in that it is performed in time
to a beat (external meter). Rapping is
often associated with and a primary
ingredient of hip-hop music.