Genres of music and artists

2.  Rock music is a broad genre
 Originated as ”rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s
 Developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in
the United Kingdom and the United States
 The sound of rock is traditionally centered on the amplified electric guitar, which
emerged in its modern form in the 1950s with the popularisation of rock and roll,
and was influenced by the sounds of electric blue guitarists.
 The sound of rock is traditionally centered on the amplified electric guitar, which
emerged in its modern form in the 1950s with the popularisation of rock and roll,.
 It was influenced by the sounds of electric blues guitarists.

3.  Some rock bands are:
 The Beatles
 The Rolling Stones
 Pink Floyd
 Coldplay
 Red Hot Chili Peppers
 The Beach Boys
 Aerosmith
 AC/DC
 Fleetwood Mac
 Guns ‘n’ Roses

4.  Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States
and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
 Up until the 1960s the terms pop and rock had similar meanings.
 Pop music is often seen as just the music in the singles charts, but it is not the all of all chart
music.
 Pop music often borrows elements from other styles such as
 Urban
 Dance
 Rock
 Latin
 Country
 There are some core elements that define pop music. These include:
 Generally short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure)
 Common use of repeated choruses
 Melodic tunes
 Hooks

5.  Some popular pop bands/artists are:
 Maroon 5
 One Direction
 5 Seconds of Summer
 Ed Sheeran
 Selena Gomez
 Shawn Mendes
 Katy Perry
 Justin Timberlake
 The Weeknd

6.  Jazz originated in the African American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late
19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime
 As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical
cultures, which gave cause to many distinctive styles to evolve.
 In the1950s free jazz first emerged, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and
formal structures, and in the mid-1950s, hard bop emerged, which introduced influences
from rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing.
 Modal Jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical
structure and improvisation.
 Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation
with rock music's rhythms, electric instruments, and highly amplified stage sound.
 In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, and
was often played on the radio.
 Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin and Afro-Cuban Jazz.

7.  Some well known jazz bands/artists are:
 Louis Armstrong
 Miles Davis
 John Coltrane
 Charlie Parker
 Dizzy Gillespie
 Johnny Dankworth
 Ella Fitzgerald
 Vic Damone
 Mary Lou Williams
 Donald Byrd
 Sammy Davis Jr.

8.  Hip hop was developed in South Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.
 Hip hop is characterised by four elements:
 Rapping
 Djaying
 Beatboxing
 Breaking
 The South Bronx hip hop scene emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from neighborhood
block parties thrown by the Ghetto Brothers, a Puerto Rican group that has been
described as being a gang, a club, and a music group.
 Hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the
United States and then the world.
 These elements were adapted and developed considerably, particularly as the art
forms spread to new continents and merged with local styles in the 1990s and
subsequent decades.

9.  Some hip hop artists are:
 Jay Z
 Drake
 Eminem
 Nicki Minaj
 Beyoncé
 J Cole
 Iggy Azalea
 Rhianna
 Snoop Dog

10.  Blues was 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 musical traditions, African-American work songs, spirituals, and
European folk music.
 Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
 Blues is also characterised by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation.
 Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times.
 Commonly used musical instruments in blues music are:
 Guitar
 Piano
 Harmonica
 Bass
 Drums
 Blues harp
 Slide guitar
 Xylophone

11.  Some blues artists/bands are:
 B.B. King
 Muddy Waters
 The Rolling Stones
 Albert King
 Freddie King
 Elmore James
 Robert Johnson
 Buddy Guy
 Howlin’ Wolf
 John Lee Hooker
 Son House

12.  Country music is frequently referred to as just country and historically country and
western.
 It is a musical genre that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.
 It takes its roots from genres such as folk music, especially Appalachian folk music
and blues.
 It often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyric and
harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments.
 Blues modes have been widely used throughout its recorded history.
 Country music is used to describe many styles and subgenres.
 The origins of country music are the folk music of working class Americans, who
blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional English ballads, and
cowboy songs, and various musical traditions from European immigrant communities.

13.  Some country music artists/bands are:
 Eric Church
 Dolly Parton
 Carrie Underwood
 Tim McGraw
 Luke Bryan
 Taylor Swift
 Brad Paisley
 Kenny Chesney
 Shaina Twain
 Johnny Cash
 Toby Keith