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JAZZ |
ROCK |
POP |
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There are many music genres all
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JAZZ
Jazz is a musical form that grew out of a cross-fertilization of folk blues, ragtime, and European music, particularly band music.
The instrument most closely associated with jazz may be the saxophone, followed closely by the trumpet. The trombone, piano, double bass, guitar and drums are also primary jazz instruments. The clarinet and banjo were often used, especially in the earlier styles of jazz.
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ROCK
Rock
can refer to almost all popular
music recorded since the early 1950s. Its main features include an emphasis on rhythm, and the use of amplified instruments like the guitar.
In the 1980s, rock continued to evolve, with metal becoming popular and punk mutating into other forms. Punk yielded New Wave, post-punk, hardcore punk, and alternative rock, while metal developed into various subdivisions, including thrash metal, glam metal, death metal, and black metal.
Alternative rock became more popular in the 1990s, with subgenres like Britpop, gothic rock, emo music, grunge, and shoegazing being some of the best-known.
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POP
Pop music is an important genre of popular music distinguished from
classical or art music and from folk music.
The term indicates specific
stylistic traits but the genre also includes artists working in many styles
(rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues (R&B), and country), and it is reasonable to
say that "pop music" is a flexible category. It may also be referred to as soft
rock or pop/rock.
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Reggae
Starting the late 1960s, a
rock-
influenced form of music began developing.
This was called rocksteady. With some folk influences
(both Jamaican and American), and the growing urban popularity of the Rastafari movement, rocksteady evolved into what is now known as roots reggae.
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SOURCE: www.wikipedia.com
References:
1. ^ van der Merwe, Peter (1989). Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-316121-4
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