Throughout history, music has undergone great changes. Society and human communities have been adapting ancient musical forms to each era to express themselves and provide an outlet for their individual and collective needs.
Records of different types of music
Types of songs or musical styles
From the primitive ways of singing and producing music to the varied styles of music we know today, men and women have created all kinds of sound gadgets. With very varied intentions and solutions, multiple genres of songs and musical experiments have been invented and practiced around the world.
musical genres
This whole process has borne very numerous fruits. Let's look at some of them.
Blues
At the beginning of the 20th century, African American communities in the southern United States basically worked on large estate plantations as slaves. In that context, Blues was born, a unique music that has permeated hundreds of other genres decade after decade.
Jazz
Jazz is a musical art form that originated as a result of the combination of West African traditions, European music and North American reality. Since the late 19th century, it has evolved as a rich and sophisticated music around syncopated rhythms and improvisation.
rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues is a term used to refer to various types of African-American popular music after World War II. Jump blues and electrified blues are often mentioned as direct antecedents and are considered a precursor to Rock and roll and other musical genres.
rock and roll
Once the Great Economic Depression was over, after the crash of 1929, American society entered a time of prosperity. Rock and roll could be said to consist of a combination of elements from various genres of American popular music. Rhythm and blues, Doo wop, Hillbilly, Blues and Country, among others.
Soul
At the end of the 1950s, black music inherited from Rhythm and blues and urban Blues continued its path and the Soul style arrived. Perhaps the most notable feature or influence of Soul music was giving greater prominence to the Gospel spirit, to the ancient influence of black spirituals, that music felt, practiced and learned in the black churches of the United States.
beat
The port of Liverpool was an important gateway for transatlantic trade in the early 1960s, and American cultural influences were slow to reach the city. Rhythm and blues and Rock and roll thus burst into England and young people quickly assimilated it and bands began to emerge that imitated those styles. Yes, Beat music was born.
Country
Country was developed in the rural communities of the Appalachian Mountains between the 18th century and the 1920s, by Irish, Welsh and Scottish immigrants. Country music and its different variants have sung the misfortunes and dreams of the white and humble population of the United States for at least a century.
Folk
Modern Folk is a style generally developed in urban environments, but inherited from rural music and folklore forms, which brings together in its songs issues, rhythms and melodies of a popular and protesting nature. The protest song and the singer-songwriters were in charge of spreading that music and its collective messages during the 1960s and until today.
Rock
Since its appearance in the United States, Rock became the most popular genre of music practiced in the world. Rock styles followed one another: Surf, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Rock, Glam, Punk, New Wave, AOR, Thrash Metal , Hardcore Rock, Grunge, Alternative Rock and many more.
funk
Funk was born in a turbulent time. In the late 1960s, African Americans in the United States began to understand that racism would not disappear overnight with protests and pacifism. As a result of that situation, a new rhythmic, danceable and raw music appeared on the musical scene: Funk.
Pop
Pop music does not have certain stylistic characteristics. Rather, it is considered an accessible and commercial version of other more defined genres. It is directly related to fans, mass entertainment and what we understand as “popular.”
Reggae
From the streets of Jamaica, the best-known descendant of Ska appeared and spread throughout the world with Bob Marley and other artists. Reggae emerged from Sound Systems, the mobile discos that entertained the neighborhoods of that country that had become independent in 1962 and wanted to express itself, to have its own voice and sound.
Bossa nova
At the end of the 1950s, a handful of young musicians and singers from Rio de Janeiro, starting from Samba, created new music influenced by Jazz and an elegant and slow style of performance. That sophisticated and sensual combination was called Bossa Nova.
Disk
The 1970s were no better than the previous decade for the American middle class. The police repression against civil rights protests, the endless Vietnam War and the economic problems resulting from the oil crisis caused a feeling of suffocation among young people, especially. There was a need to escape, to dance, and Disco music emerged as a survival manual.
hip hop
Hip hop culture as such emerged in the suburbs of New York, during the 1970s, at block or neighborhood parties. There, groups of young African Americans and also of Puerto Rican origin tried to express their frustration and protest against the situation of poverty, violence and lack of opportunities they suffered, dancing and rapping around modest music equipment or sound systems.
Reggaeton
From Panama in the 1970s, where Reggae began to be sung in Spanish, until the early 1990s, in Puerto Rico where it was consolidated as a genre around its characteristic rhythm, Reggaetón has been the first Latin style to succeed commercially. in the 21st century.
trap
In the early 1990s, in Atlanta, United States, some Hip hop artists began to include some new urban elements in their songs. Electronic instruments, manipulated previous recordings and realistic lyrics of survival in the suburbs gave shape to what we call Trap today.
History, songs and music
Throughout history music has been present in the lives of human beings. Writing song lyrics, creating music, inventing new rhythms, innovative forms and structures, surprising, exciting, moving combinations,… making songs, in short. New genres will emerge from human throats and imagination, we will sing songs that no one has even dreamed of yet. Music will always be a part of us. #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_form { } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_column_with_background { padding: 10px; } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_form_column:not(:first-child) { margin-left: 20px; } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_paragraph { line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_segment_label, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_text_label, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_textarea_label, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_select_label, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_radio_label, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_checkbox_label, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_list_label, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_date_label { display: block; font-weight: normal; } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_text, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_textarea, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_select, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_date_month, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_date_day, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_date_year, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_date { display: block; } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_text, #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_textarea { width: 200px; } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_checkbox { } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_submit { } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_divider { } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_message { } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_form_loading { width: 30px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; } #mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_form_loading > span { width: 5px; height: 5px; background-color: #5b5b5b; }#mailpoet_form_3{border: 1px solid #fcb900;border-radius: 40px;text-align: center;}#mailpoet_form_3 form.mailpoet_form {padding: 20px;}#mailpoet_form_3{width: 70%;}#mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_message {margin : 0; padding: 0 20px;}#mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_paragraph.last {margin-bottom: 0} @media (max-width: 500px) {#mailpoet_form_3 {background-image: none;}} @media (min-width: 500px) { #mailpoet_form_3 .last .mailpoet_paragraph:last-child {margin-bottom: 0}} @media (max-width: 500px) {#mailpoet_form_3 .mailpoet_form_column:last-child .mailpoet_paragraph:last-child {margin-bottom: 0}} Please leave this field emptyDo you write songs or would you like to?
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