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Oct 6, 2023 · Tropical House music is a genre that has been gaining popularity in recent years, but its origins can be traced back to the early 2010s. The genre is a fusion of deep house, reggae, and elements of Caribbean music, with a focus on creating a relaxed and tropical atmosphere.
Jun 28, 2023 · Caribbean music has its roots in the indigenous music of the Caribbean islands, with influences from West African and European cultures brought over through slavery and cultural exchange, resulting in the emergence of key genres such as calypso, reggae, salsa, zouk, and kompa. Indigenous Music Of Caribbean Islands.
- Along Came Grunge
- Girls to The Front
- Counterculture Goes Mainstream
- The Rise of Britpop
- Assuming The Rock’N’Roll Mantle
- A Technological Shift
- Hip-Hop Gets Soulful
- When Hip-Hop Took Over
- One-hit Wonders
The biggest curveball that 90s music threw us was, of course, grunge. In the lead-up to its inflection point (Nirvana’s Nevermind), guitar-based music roughly fell into three categories: alternative rock, classic-rock standbys, and an already-dimming hair metal scene. It was so lost that 1989 also marked the curious year that Jethro Tull won the be...
Most female-fronted rock bands didn’t chart as well, but they did deal in a cultural currency that produced a vibrant feminist-rock scene. Hole drew attention to Love’s contemporaries, including Bikini Kill, Babes In Toyland, Bratmobile, and, later, Sleater-Kinney. Then there was L7. All flying-V riffs, head-banging hair, and “screw you” lyrics, L7...
The larger impact of grunge on 90s music was that it normalized what was once deemed countercultural. Suddenly, middle-of-the-road music listeners were nudged towards exploring what was once considered the domain of indie-music fans, who initially viewed these newcomers as interlopers. Sonic Youth – idols to countless punk bands, including Nirvana,...
In the UK, grunge’s chart-takeover of the early 90s created a backlash in the form of Britpop. It’s no coincidence that Blur’s second, sound-defining album was titled Modern Life Is Rubbish (or that its alternate title was Britain Versus America). The Cool Britannia movement hearkened back to the 60s and the fertile music scene it cultivated, refer...
Back in the US, post-grunge acts assumed rock’s mantle by pushing the genre towards a less destructive style of brooding through longhairs such as Collective Soul, Candlebox, Goo Goo Dolls, Creed, Silverchair, and Incubus. In retort (and due to angst fatigue), an assortment of colorful ska and pop-punk acts – No Doubt, Blink-182, Green Day, and Ran...
Going back to 1991, there was also one pivotal music-industry development, above and beyond grunge, that indelibly shifted music tastes for decades. This was the year that Billboard updated charts to reflect actual SoundScansales figures. Up until that point, chart rankings were determined by the projections of record-store clerks and managers. Tho...
But Billboard’s new accounting actually had its greatest impact on R&B and hip-hop, revealing the two genres’ growing relationship with one another. The 90s kicked off with New Jack Swing in full effect, its most effective purveyors being Bell Biv DeVoe, Al B Sure, Keith Sweat, and Boys II Men. As New Jack Swing waned, R&B embraced a soul-and-groov...
The decade started with gangsta-rap frenemies Ice Cube and Eazy-E forging their own paths, with former NWA bandmate Dr. Dre innovating G-Funk through his monumental 1992 release, The Chronic. This evolved into an epic East Coast-West Coast feud (essentially, Bad Boy Records vs Death Row Records), during which time Warren G and Nate Dogg, Puff Daddy...
One last thing… As with any decade, there was also a treasure trove of one-hit wonders that arrived and slipped from the charts (at least) without a trace. Bookending the decade, you have Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” in 1990 and Lou Bega’s 1999 smash “Mambo No. 5.” The two seemingly have little in common except large sources of outside ...
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Apr 27, 2020 · Funk Carioca’s history started back in late 1970 when there were happening parties in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro and DJs would play American music such as Funk, R&B and Soul. Those rhythms would make everyone at the party dance creating choreographies and have fun. At the beginning of the 80’s, the genre Miami Bass was imported from Miami ...
Calypso music was developed in Trinidad in the 17th century from the West African Kaiso and canboulay music brought by enslaved Africans brought to the Caribbean islands to work on sugar plantations. [4]
Sep 18, 2017 · Whether it’s salsa, bachata, merengue or the latest fusion, Billboard has been tracking the best of tropical music since the premiere of the Tropical Songs airplay chart in 1994.
Jul 3, 2013 · Mixing up bossa nova, psychedelia, concrete poetry and electronic wizardry, Tropicália gave us discombobulated pop, direct from the Third World. Its inner circle all hailed from Bahia, the old capital of the country, where colonial Portuguese architecture and Afro-Brazilian heritage came into contact with New Wave cinema and 7-inch records ...
