World Music Genres

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World music Genres

1. Rock

The rock is a musical genre contemporary routed to encompass each of the various music

genres derived from rock and roll. Usually interpreted, among many other instruments are

added occasionally, with guitar, drums, bass and occasionally keyboard instruments such as

organ, piano, or synthesizers.

2. Pop

Pop music is a genre that, regardless of the instrumentation and technology used

for its creation, retains the formal structure "verse - chorus - verse", executed in a

simple, melodic, catchy, and usually comparable to the general public .

3. Bluesblues (meaning melancholy and sadness) is a vocal and instrumental

musical genre, based on the use of blue notes and a repetitive pattern

that typically follow a twelve-bar structure. Native to the African

American communities of the United States, was developed through

spiritual prayer songs.

4. Country

The country (also called country and western) is a musical style emerged in the 20s in

rural areas of the southern United States. Originally combined folk music of some

European countries of immigrants, mainly from Ireland. The traditional country, is

essentially playing stringed instruments such as guitar, banjo, violin single (fiddle) and the

bass, but also frequently involved the accordion (for French-influenced Cajun music), and

harmonica.

5. Break Dance

The B-and Break Dance ', is an urban dance that is part of Hip Hop culture emerged in African

American neighborhoods as New Yorkers Bronx and Brooklyn in the 1970s. It is a dance that

combines a series of aerobic and rhythmic movements, influenced from Aboriginal dances,

martial arts, gymnastics, and the popular funk. The list of movements is enormous and requires

great dedication and discipline to be carried out.


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6. Vallenato

Vallenato is a musical genre indigenous to the Caribbean Coast, with its epicenter in the

former province of Padilla and an important variant in the savanna region of the

departments of Bolvar, Sucre and Cordoba. It traditionally plays three instruments: the

diatonic accordion, the guacharaca and housing (small drum goat leather).

7. Hip HopHip hop is an art movement that emerged in the United States in the late 1960s in

African American and Latin American neighborhoods as New Yorkers Bronx, Queens

and Brooklyn, where from the beginning stood characteristic manifestations of the

origins of hip hop.

8. Salsa:

Salsa is a genre and a culture gestated in Latin countries, mainly from the Caribbean

area, but undisputed birthplace in the city of New York is very important to know thatthe sauce should be addressed beyond a simple rhythmic pattern, or beyond key,

should be seen as a cultural phenomenon, ethnic, harmonious, and above all, mixed

and popular, as the sauce was born in the neighborhood, in poverty.

9. Jerk

The Jerk or Jerkin 'is a dance style born in 2008 in Los Angeles and broadcast on Southern

California. Since 2009, the jerk has won fans all over the West Coast of the United States and is

gaining popularity on the East Coast. The dance itself consists of moving the legs denro and

out and make moves such as reject, dip, and pindrop.

10. Meringue

The merengue is a music and dance style originated in the Caribbean, specifically in the

Dominican Republic. Originally, the meringue was played with guitars. Years later, the

guitars were replaced by conforming accordion along with the calabash and the drums, the

set instrumental structure typical merengue. This set, with its three instruments, represents

the synthesis of the three cultures that shaped the idiosyncrasies of Dominican culture. The

European influence is to be represented by the Accordion, African by Tambora (drum two

patches), and the aboriginal Tano or Gira.


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11. Disc 70 And 80

Disco music is a genre of dance music derived from R & B (rhythm & blues) that blended

elements of earlier genres, such as funk and soul, with Latin touches in many cases, and

that became popular in dance halls (discos ) in the late seventies. The instruments are

string section, Section Wind, keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, vocals.

12. Passa Passa

Passa Passa is a street party from Kingston, Jamaica. The name was coined by Carl

Shelley. Dancehall performed to music. It has spread throughout the Caribbean and

the city of Colon in Panama. It is very similar related to a Block Party. Artists,

selectors, and dancers who usually attend and have done much to build the dance

for what it is to day include: Bogle, Ding Dong, elephant man.

13. Reggaeton:

is a popular style among young people in many countries of Latin America,

especially in the Caribbean countries, making it easy to dance and causing very

sensual movements. Bass lines and repetitive rhythm (almost clone in all their

songs) is characteristic of reggaeton. It has a sync feature by which guided

most of the songs, giving an easy reference for the dance. The pace is a

variation of rhythmic lines Jamaican dancehall reggae, which merged mid

eighties funk-inspired rhythms, creating strong and danceable rhythms. The reggaeton is often associated with a form of

dance very "sexy" and provocative, their bodies so close together, sometimes called perreo (doggy style). The lyrics of

reggaeton are characterized by relying on rhyme to make the song is catchy and easily identifiable to the public. This

rhyme style is also inspired by the raggamuffin and dancehall, and rap. Another feature of reggaeton are the shrill voices

that are distorted electronic equipment, adding a gentle echo gives more power to every word (dub type, for example).

14. Rap:

communion is mixing music with rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and

poetry, one element of hip hop music and culture.

15. Heavy metal:

is a musical genre evolved from rock and roll and hard rock characterized by powerfu

rhythms achieved through the use of distorted guitars, drums double bass or double

pedal, and pronounced low.


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16. Flamenco:

is a Spanish genre of music and dance which originated in Andalusia in the eighteenth

century, which is based on the Andalusian music and dance and in whose creation and

development played a crucial role gitana.El ethnic Andalusians singing, guitar playing

and dancing are the main facets of flamenco

17. Brit Pop:

is a musical genre born in the mid-90s, characterized by the appearance of bands

influenced by groups of the 60s and 70s like The Beatles and The Kinks. It was

incredibly popular during the years 1994-1996.

18. Cumbia:

is a folkloric genre native to the Caribbean Coast with variations equally folkloriccharacter Panam.La truest form of cumbia is purely instrumental, executed and

traditionally followed by the set of drums: Caller, cheerful, drums, and the mil flute

or the bagpipes, male and female, maracas and gouache.

19. Jazz:

Originally from the United States. Attaches great importance to improvisation

and characterized by changing pace. Surge in the late nineteenth century from a

combination of black African rhythms with Anglo folk melodies. Its main

features are the syncopated rhythm and alternating or overlapping time, the

swing or rocking that produces emotional tension and freedom of

improvisation. Originally collected musical forms such as spirituals and godspel.

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