instuments used: synthesizer, drum machine, vacoder and a sampler.
some subgenres include: electro bass, freestyle music, miami base, techno bass and minimal electro.
Blues:
Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes. It emerged in African-American communities of the United States
from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The use of blue notes and the prominence of
call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of African influence. The blues influenced later American and Western popular music,
as it became the roots of jazz, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, heavy metal music, hip-hop, and other popular music forms.
artists:
B.B king, Jean Ferrris, David Ewen, Elvis , Donald (Don) Clarke.
Clips:
B.B king, blues boys tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw
Eric Clapton, groaning the blues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTWQD91b5c&feature=related
stylistic origins: African American folk music
cultural origins: Southern United States
mainstream popularity:
The blues chord progressions and blue notes are widely used in most popular music styles of the 20th century United States;
a highly influential music genre.
instuments used: guitar, piano, harmonica, bass, drums, saxaphone, trumpet, vocals and trombone.
some subgenres include: Classic female blues, Country blues, Delta blues, Jazz blues, Jump blues, Piano blues and Boogie-woogie.
Hip Hop:
Hip hop music is a genre of music typically consisting of a rhythmic style of speaking called rap over backing beats performed on a turntable by a DJ.
Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latinos (the other two
elements are breakdancing and graffiti art). [1] The term rap is sometimes used synonymously with hip hop music, though it originally referred only to rapping itself.
Rapping, also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat. Beats are traditionally
sampled from portions of other songs by a DJ, though synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands are also used, especially in newer music. Rappers may perform poetry
which they have written ahead of time, or improvise rhymes on the spot. Though rap is usually an integral component of hip hop music, DJs sometimes perform and record
alone, and many instrumental acts are also defined as hip hop.
artists:
50 Shots, Duice, Aspects, Daara J, B girls.
Clips:
Duice, duice in the house: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzAkvJVbP-k
Daara J, Rio Loco: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8zjM6DizI
stylistic origins: Jamaican Dancehall toasting alongside the rhythms of R&B, disco, and funk.
cultural origins: late 1960s/early 1970s: Kingston, Jamaica - early 1970s South Bronx, New York City
mainstream popularity: Since late 1980s in the United States, worldwide beginning in early 1990s, among best-selling genres of music by early 2000s.
instuments used: Turntable, rapping, drum machine, sampler, synthesizer, human beatboxing
