Music Genre Research

• 2-step garage: British style of modern electronic dance music, and a relatively popular subgenre of UK Garage.
• Ambient music: Music that can either be listened to intently, or be played in the background and easily be ignored. Often times used for relaxation and meditation.
• Afro beat: A combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized inAfrica in the 1970s.
• Beat boxing: Music performed by producing percussive and melodic sounds with the mouth alone, often mimicking instruments, recorded samples and other sounds not typically associated with vocalization.
• Calypso: Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago.
• Crunk: Crunk is a fusion genre of hip hop music and electro that originated in Memphis, in the United States. It became popular in the mid to late 1990s and gained mainstream success around 2003 - 2004.
• Dance music: Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement.
• Dancehall: Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music. A sparser version of reggae, it also speaks on politics and religion but not as directly as roots style, which was associated with the Rastafari movement, and had dominated much of the 1970s.
• Death metal: Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys oratonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
• Drum and bass: Drum and bass is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats, with heavy bass and sub-bass lines.
• Dubstep: Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South East London. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals".
• Electro: Electro (short for either electro-funk or electro-boogie) is a genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling.
• Emo: Emo is a style of rock music typically characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional lyrics. It originated in the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement of Washington, D.C., where it was known as "emotional hardcore" or "emocore"
• Funky house: Funky house is a loose definition for a commercially-oriented, disco influenced subgenre of house music. Like most variants of house, the genre follows a traditional four to the floor house beat, and makes heavy use of synthesizers, samples and soulful vocals, although unlike in more electronically bent Chicago and deep house, presence of acoustic instrumentation is much more common.