Music

Nowadays popular music

Katrin Kaasik 11.B

15.02.2008

POP MUSIC

potential audience or prospective market less than five minutes a mainstream style and traditional structure romantic love, feelings and sex. Sean Kingston, Shakira,Justin Timberlake

EMO MUSIC

Stylistic origins: Hardcore punk, indie rock, alternative rock Cultural origins: Mid 1980s, Washington, Typical instruments: Vocals-Lead and Rhythm Guitars - Bass - Drums Mainstream popularity: Sporadically through the 1980s and '90s, growing in the early 2000s Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco

REGGAE

Stylistic origins: R&B, Jazz, Mento, Calypso, Ska, Rocksteady

Cultural origins: Late 1960s Jamaica, especially Kingston

Typical instruments: Bass - Drums - Guitr - Organ - Brass - Melodica

Mainstream popularity: Early 1970s onward, worldwide Bob Marley

ELECTRONIC MUSIC- DNB Stylistic origins: Breakbeat hardcore, Techno, Hip

hop, Reggae/Ragga, Dancehall/Dub, Funk, Breakbeat, Jazz

Cultural origins: early/mid-1990s; London and Bristol, United Kingdom Typical instruments: Synthesiser –

Dru machine - Sequencer –

Keyboard - Sampler – Persona

computer Mainstream popularity: Small,

largely based in UK at first,

now global

Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass and drum & bass)

fast tempo broken beat drums, with heavy basslines

Raves Dj Pendulum, Pakito

Flower power Death Metal Teen pop Dirty rap