Music Genres

Music to accompany the marching of a large group of soldiers

Improvised half spoken half sung lyrics

An upbeat jazz style originating in New Orleans in the 1880s

A song style handed down through generations

A four part acapella vocal style typically all male or all female

A wide variety of popular rock style from 1960s til today

Also known as Hillbilly Music

Highly Amplified style of music

A type of American drama originating in New York

An upbeat dance-like style that originated in Kansas  City and harlem in the mid 1930s.

Quiet instrumental music with very little melody line. Popular in the 1980s

A drama or play with dance, poetry, comedy, costumes, and scenery

Lively 70s dance music

20th century music composed for the sole purpose of highlighting film action

Music for a large orchestra originating in Western Europe

Various styles from various Carribean nations

African American Christian vocal music in jubilant popular style.

A type of African-American urban pop music combining jazz, swing, and blues

Jamaican Pop Music

An American Pop style that evolved during the mid 1950s.

A jazz piano style first heard in Chicago in the  1920s

Uses media for creating and altering sounds

A style of jazz, both instrumental and vocal that evolved from African-American field hollers

A sacred choral piece for religious reasons

African-American Urban Pop