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Evolution in musical instruments [1] in technology and in culture can influence the evolution of musical genres. [2] Genealogical charts or family trees of musical genres show how new genres have emerged from existing genres and how multiple genres have contributed to a new genre. Since music can be endlessly broken down into smaller and ...
Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music.
List of popular music genres; 2020s. 2025 in music, 2025 in American ... Bobby Darin, Billboard publishes first U.S. music chart; 1935 in music, ...
Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country) and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. The origin of country music stems from European folk music as well as ballads and dance tunes brought by British immigrants who combined these elements with blues ...
Their music was a mixture of bluesy work songs mixed with jazz and other influences, and included styles like la la and juré. Though these genres were geographically limited, they were modernized and mixed with more mainstream styles, evolving into popular zydeco music by the middle of the century (Broughton and Kaliss, 558).
Genre Date of origin Locale of origin Electroacoustic music: Early 1940s Egypt Musique concrète: 1940s Egypt (Cairo), France Acousmatic music: Late 1940s France (Paris) Drone: 1960s United States: Dub: Late 1960s Jamaica Ambient: Late 1960s – early 1970s Germany, Jamaica, Japan, United Kingdom: Electronic rock: Late 1960s – early 1970s
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Billboard charts now cover these music genres: rock, pop, country, dance, bluegrass, jazz, classical, R&B, rap, electronic, Latin, Christian, world and holiday music, and even ringtones for mobile (cell) phones. An album chart, the "Best Selling Popular Record Albums", was first published on March 24, 1945, with The King Cole Trio its first No ...