Psychedelic rock is a distinct sub-genre of rock and roll that first appeared and gained wide popularity during the counter-cultural revolution, which began in its first incarnation in the 1950s when the children of the decade became teenagers and young adults. Common Psychedelic Rock Characteristics The musical characteristics of psychedelic rock are varied and often...
As a broad designation, the term rock commonly refers to music styles post-1959, predominantly influenced by white musicians. Rock music originated in the United States, but it has influenced and been shaped by a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel, blues, country, classical, folk, electronic, and pop music from Asia, Africa, and...
Country-and-Western music – often referred to simply as Country – is a major genre of American popular music, tracing its beginning to the early 1920s, and was developed by white Southerners. Country, a derivative of Southern Appalachia folk music, encompasses sub-styles such as Western swing, honky-tonk, bluegrass, rockabilly, and new country. Like many genres, country...
Disco was a genre of music that emerged in the United States in the 1970s. It quickly became a cultural phenomenon, with its distinctive sound and accompanying dance moves taking the world by storm. However, its rise to popularity was followed by a sudden and dramatic fall from its lofty heights. Origins of Disco The...
Reggae is a genre of music that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. It is characterized by its unique rhythm, which is heavily influenced by African rhythms, and is characterized by its use of the offbeat. The drums in reggae music are typically played on the backbeat, which gives the music its distinctive feel....
By the early 1960s, knowing the dollar value of rock-n-roll, the majority of what the music industry promoted as rock-n-roll was little more than a reproduction of the hard-edge, teenage-angst, innovation known as rock-n-roll. Instead of performers writing their songs, songs were written by professional composers, recorded by session or studio musicians, and sung by...
Rhythm-and-Blues or R&B is a medley of diverse, but similar, types of popular music genres produced and primarily supported by African-Americans beginning in the early 1940s. R&B embraces such genres as jump blues, club blues, black rock-n-roll, doo-wop, soul, Motown, funk, disco, and even hip-hop. The term rhythm and blues was first coined in 1949...
Blues originated during the late nineteenth century, promulgated by African-American performers as a secular musical genre. The genre incorporates a fusion of what are both dually individual genres and sub-styles: country or down-home blues, boogie-woogie, classic blues, Chicago blues (also referred to as urban blues), and modern blues. As with most traditional musical styles, the...
Jazz, perhaps the most complex and ubiquitous of music genres, is a type of music first developed by African-Americans in the first decade of the 1900s. Jazz music has a conspicuous stylistic evolution and enjoys a semi-unambiguous history. The genre developed contemporarily with blues and pop; consequently, these genres parallel and paradoxically coincide in many...
The most time-honored music genres include Jazz, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Pop, Country, and Rock & Roll. (Although two other subgenres have demonstrated substantial popularity: Reggae and Psychedelic Rock.) All of these genres have distinct characteristics and sub-genres, some of which are popularly charting in the top 10, 20, or 40 right now. To read...
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