music genres

music that mixes country influence southern gospel and Mississippi delta blues

black urban culture that includes rapping/cutting by deejays, break dancing, poetry slams and graffiti art

type of music emerging from black spirituals, ballads, and work song from the rural south

music that challenges the orthodoxy and commercialism of the record business (simple cord, catchy melody, etc)

music that mixes gospel and blues with emotion and lyrics drawn from the american black experience

music that merges blues and big band sounds

improvational and mostly instrumental musical form that absorbs and integrates a diverse body of musical styles

american south, folk, blues, gospel influence

songs performed by untrained musicians and passed down mainly through oral traditions

music that merges with black sounds of rhythm and blues, gospel, screeching blues guitar and white influences country

subgenre of rock music that takes the spirit of punk and influences it with more attention and melody

popular music that appeals either to a wide cross section of the public