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Bues
Blues is a musical form created in African-American communities around the 19th century. The genre is a fusion between the traditional African music and European folk music.
The term may have come from the term "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness. Most of the time, the lyrics of blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times.
The blues influenced many others genres of music, like the rock and roll, jazz and popular music. Blues musicians :
- Robert Johnson.
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Jazz
Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century.As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, giving rise to many distinctive styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. Jazz vocalists :
- Michael Bublé.
- Eddie Jefferson.
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R'n'B
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B or RnB, 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 "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars. -
Rock
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. It has its roots in 1940s' and 1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical. -
Rap
Rapping is "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics".[4] 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. Rapping is often associated with and a primary ingredient of hip hop music, but the origins of the phenomenon can be said to predate hip hop culture by centuries. It can also be found in alternative rock such as Red Hot Chili Peppers. -
Hip-Hop
Hip hopis a cultural movement that formed during the 1970s among African American youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music (oral), turntablism or "DJing" (aural), b-boying (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Even while it continues to develop globally in myriad styles, these four foundational elements provide coherence to hip hop culture.
