The Roots of music genres
"A music genre is a conventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions"
There are many different genres of music, there are the main genres then the sub genres. the main genres are:
- Country
- Dance
- Electronic
- HipHop
- Rap
- Indie Rock
- Blues
- Jazz
- Classic
- Reggae
- Punk
- Pop
- Rock
- funk
- Alternitve
there are also hudreds of more sub genres for example Indie or Grunge would come under alternitave.
How Genres have Evolved
music genres have evolved over the years, for example rock and roll is no longer called rock and roll, it is just called rock. Original rock and roll from the 1950s consisted of just one acoustic guitar and a vocalist, Elvis is a good exampe of this. Modern day rock music has many different instruments and more often than not a distorted sound thus showing how genres have changed.
