Music Genres by Mya W Darnes illiams,Mia ha Str icklan Springs and d
Contents Kpop 3 Hip Hop 4 Pop 5 Dub 6 Rap 7 R&B 8 Interesting facts 19
K-pop Is a cultural product that features “values,identity and meanings that go beyond their strictly commercial value “.It is characterized by a mixture of Western sounds with an Asian aspect performance . It has been remarked that there is a “vision of modernization”inherent in korean pop culture. K-pop means”korean pop” .
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Hip Hop
Hip Hop is a type of music.It is also a culture ,or way of life.It includes many types of expression for example ,rapping deejaying,dancing, and graffiti painting.The cultural movement known as hip hop emerged in the late 1970s in the predominantly African American South Bronx Section of New York City.It was focusing on MCing over “breakouts�,house parties.Hip Hop is also a way to release your feelings.
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Pop
Pop music is music that is
commercially recorded for a youthful audience and is much distinguishable from jazz and folk music.The word pop was first used in 1926 to refer to music with popular appeal .It’s not clear who invented pop music.Pop music is ,in common with jazz,primarily an aural and improvised music .Pop music is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s.
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Dub
a form of dance music, typically instrumental, characterized by a sparse, syncopated rhythm and a strong bassline.
“Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England. It emerged in the late 1990s as a development within a lineage of related styles such as 2-step garage, dub, techno, drum and bass, breakbeat, jungle, and reggae.[1][2] In the United Kingdom the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s.[2][3] The music generally features sparse, syncopated drum and percussion patterns with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies.�
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Rap Rap is a type of popular music of US black origin in which words are rapidly and rhythmically over a pre record, typically electronic instrumental backing. Rap music mainly include no vocals but it includes stories of their own or the people or any recent event. All it includes is a bass, or any instrument mainly drum and a voice of a singer singing. There are famous Rappers like Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem.
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R & B R&B Is Rhythm and Blues it's a kind or pop music of African American origin with a soulful vocal style featuring improvisation. The Cultural origins go way back to the 1940s, 1950s, and now. The typical instruments that they would use is for R&B would be drum, the bass guitar, horns, keyboards, electric guitar, vocals, and background vocals. There are are famous artist that are in the R&B genre like Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney Houston, and more.
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