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Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, religious or linguistic group. Cultural genres [ edit ] By ethnicity or origin [ edit ]
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [2] It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. [3] Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were ...
Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) [3] that emerged in London in the early 2000s. It developed out of the earlier UK dance style UK garage, [4] and draws influences from jungle, dancehall, and hip hop. [2] The style is typified by rapid, syncopated breakbeats, generally around 140 beats per minute, [4] [1] and often features an ...
Tumba is a style of Curaçao music, strongly African in origin, despite the name's origin in a 17th-century Spanish dance. Traditional tumba is characterized by scandalous, gossiping and accusatory lyrics, but modern tumba often eschews such topics. It is well known abroad, and dates to the early 19th century.
Country music. Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. It was most popular during the mid to late 1970s, though it has had brief resurgences afterwards. The first notable fully synthesized disco hit was "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. Looping,It inspired the electronic dance music genre. Electronic
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe.. Trance music is typically characterized by a tempo between 120 and 150 beats per minute (BPM), repeating melodic phrases and a musical form that distinctly builds tension and elements throughout a track often culminating in 1 to 2 ...
