Blues
Jazz
Pianist Jelly Roll Morton described New Orleans as the “cradle of jazz”. The early development of the genre in New Orleans was connected to the community life of the city, as demonstrated by brass-band funerals, music for picnics in parks and Saturday-night fish fries. As a thriving port city with a vibrant nightlife, it was a melting pot of cultures and rhythms from which jazz was born.
Country music was born of a truly multicultural blend of global genres: English folk balladry, Mississippi Delta blues, Irish fiddle tunes, French/Cajun music, vaudeville. Its mainstream popularity began in the mid 1920s, when record companies and radio stations began marketing the genre to the masses.
Country
Rock'n'Roll
In the 1940s, Afro-American expressions of gospel, blues and rhythm and blues converged to form rock ’n’ roll, the genre from which rock and its many, many subsidiary genres were born. Early pioneers were guitar-wiedling mega performers, whose songs tackled topics of teenage living and the growing influence of consumerism.
Soul music sprang from the blues clubs, churches and street corners of the USA. It was a collision of genres that mixed testifying with showmanship and has been constantly evolving since the 1950s. Different styles of soul began to appear in different states across the USA, from the gritty Stax Records approach in Memphis to the smooth sounds of Kenny Gamble in Philadelphia.
Soul
Hip-hop
From the block parties of the Bronx in the early 1970s came a new musical phenomenon ready to court controversy and break down barriers in equal measure. Hip-hop spread across the USA like wildfire, with every major city developing its own unique brand of this powerful and exciting new genre.
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) has grown into one of the most popular genres among young Americans today, with its prominent DJs becoming international megastars. The sound as we know it today began to have an impact in 1992 with the opening of NASA (Nocturnal Audio Sensory Awakening) in New York City. Its influence sent shockwaves across the USA, giving birth to countless subgenres today embraced by thrill-seeking millennials at dedicated EDM festivals.
EDM
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