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Wednesday, 21 October 2009

pop


Pop music is often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs. While these basic elements of the genre have remained fairly constant, pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, particularly borrowing from the development of rock music.
Mostly targeted towards teenage girls age 13; because of the lyrics which talk about the hardships of love.







grime





Grime is a genre of urban music which first emerged in East London, England in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop. According to Sasha Frere-Jones, writer for The New Yorker, grime has developed a fierce sound by "distilling" rhythms to a minimal style resulting in a choppy, off-center sound. Whereas hip hop is inherently dance music, the writer argues that "grime sounds as if it had been made for a boxing gym, one where the fighters have a lot of punching to do but not much room to move." Frere-Jones also states that grime has maintained a style unique from American hip hop, with clear Jamaican and Caribbean influences Writer Hattie Collins supports Frere-Jones' s analysis by asserting that grime is "an amalgamation of UK Garage with a bit of drum'n'bass, a splash of punk and a touch of hip-hop thrown in for good measure.
Grime is not garage Grime is not jungle Grime is not hip-hop and Grime is not ragga. Grime is a mix between all of these with strong, hard hitting lyrics. It's the inner city music scene of London. And is also alot to do with representing the place you live or have grown up in.
Grime Groups: Roll Deep Crew, Aftershock, Newham Generals, Boy Betta Know, Nasty Crew, Fireworks. Grime Mc's: Kano, Wiley, Dizzee Rascal, Bashy, Jme, Skinnyman, Klashnekoff, Sway, Bruza, D Double

Hip-hop


Hip-hop manifested in breakdancing, graffiti writing, eMCeeing/rapping; Hip Hop culture expresses a reality of human transcendence which was originally born out of the creative impulse and cultural improvisation of the oppressed Black and Latin American community of New York City A culture and form of ground breaking music and self expression with elements that consisted of the elements of graffiti art, DJing, MCing.Today Hip-Hop is considered to be dead in the mainstream because so-called mainstream Hip-Hop doesn't have the elements of hip-hop and have no meaning. The stuff on MTV and the radio can't be called Hip-Hop because the lyrics don't have any meaning or self expression.artists today just rap about their shopping lists money and daily activities. There are no more DJs making a prescence since artists today think they can manage without them. Without a DJ there are no scratches and cuts. No much graffiti art is being shown in videos. Artists such as 50 Cent, Nelly, Chingy, J-Kwon, P. Diddy, Cash Money Millionaries have no MCing skills,and do not have any DJ presence in their tracks -notice that so-called hip-hop today lacks scratches and cuts-, and not much graffiti art is being expressed.
Hip-Hop Music is: Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr, Wu-Tang Clan, Pharcyde, Hieroglyphics, Aceyalone, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Public Enemy, Common, Mobb Deep, Nas, Rakim, and many more old school and underground acts but we can not forget P. Diddy, Ja Rule, Nelly, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Cash Money Millionaries, and other mainstream money making oriented acts.




Jazz


Jazz is a music that affects you mentally, it can get inside you without words or images just by sound




Classic


Classical music is music, which includes an orchestra, a choral, solo instruments, or opera A type of music that surpasses all others because it doesn't involve computer generated beats.
composers like Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich were intelligent and put real emotion into their music.
The majority of listeners are intelligent people who refuse to listen to Rap because of how bad it sounds. Classical music is still being composed today and has never been better. Some modern composers are Leondard Bernstein and John Rutter.
Classical music focuses primarily on perfection.

R&B


Rnb was the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. Starting in the 1960s, after this style of music contributed to the development of "rock and roll", the term "R&B" became used - particularly by white groups to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, the term "rhythm and blues" was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk.

Rhythm and blues" - upbeat, funky music that started in the 60s with the Motown era. Has really gone downhill since then.
Since the 1990s, the term "Contemporary R&B" is now mainly used to refer to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music.






Punk


The punk subculture expresses youthful rebellion by distinctive styles of clothing.
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. They create fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, and often political. many punk bands self-produce their recordings and distribute them through informal channels.
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emo


Emocore is a style of rock music created by expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace
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Goth


The Goth subculture began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s, Its imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from nineteenth century Gothic literature along with horror movies.
The Goth subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics, and fashion, whether or not all individuals who share those tastes are in fact members of the Goth subculture. Gothic music encompasses a number of different styles. Common to all is a tendency towards a lugubrious, mystical sound and outlook. Styles of dress within the subculture range from death rock, punk, androgynous, Victorian, some Renaissance and Medieval style attire, or combinations of the above, most often with black attire, makeup and hair.
Notable gothic rock bands include Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Sex Gang Children, The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, and Fields of the Nephilim
A Goth could also be said to be :Someone who likes the darker side of things. They usually listen to death metal and Goth music, such as Dismember and Bauhaus.
Goths are not depressing and suicidal. Goths are fun to be around and aren't afraid to laugh at themselves every so often. They don't worship Satan and aren't evil despite what some ignorant people might say. Goths don't all dress alike either. They like to create their own unique style. Goths are also very intelligent and creative. A lot of them are writers and artists.

New romantic


the new romtic was a youth fashion movement that peaked in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. Originally centered around part of the Synthpop music scene, it has seen several revivals since then, and continues to influence popular culture. Developing in London nightclubs such as Billy's and The Blitz, the movement was associated with bands such as Visage, Adam and the Ants, Ultravox, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. Brian Eno and Roxy Music were also influences.
the Romantic period of the 1800s which focused on love and joy, as the way to live your life.Men wearing make-up and dressing more effeminately was a popular part of New-Romanticism.





Mod


A modernist is a subculture that originated in London in the late 1950s and peaked in the early to mid 1960s.
mod subculture, just as other subcultures, include: fashion (often tailor-made suits); pop music, including African American soul, and British beat music and R&B; and Italian motor scooters. The mods were also associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night dancing at clubs.
As with many subcultures, mods are characterized by there clothing and music, both of which become an obsession for Mods. The clothing has a vintage, well-tailored, and pea cockish look, favoring bright patterns, plenty of color, brands like Ben Sherman and Fred Perry, and slim-cut, three button suits (preferably Italian) in the style of the sixties.
mod music are usualy danceable,and include old school Ska, Soul, and R&B as well as New Wave, Britpop, and Alternative Rock.
Another defining characteristic of Mods is their chosen mode of transportation, the Italian moterscooter (most notably Vespa and Lambretta).
These scooters tend to be in a retro style and sometimes heavily customized.
Mods tend not to get into fights willingly because they fear they may damage there attire, however there has been large rows between mods and rockers.

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