Task 6

Task 6- Choosing the Genre of my

magazine

By Toni Morris

Musical Genre for my magazine

• The music genre which I have chosen to base my magazine upon is the ‘Urban’ culture which includes Pop, R&B, Hip- Hop and Rap music.

Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is a genre of popular music which originated in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The term popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of any form of music which is popular (and can include any genre), whilst the latter is a specific genre of music which has qualities which would make it appealing to a large audience.

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, breaking/dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to

describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more

popular.The term has subsequently had a number of

shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to

blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the

development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric

blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a

blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming

known as "Contemporary R&B".