Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Arabic Pop” music or Arab pop is a subgenre of Pop music and Arabic music. Arab pop is mainly produced in Cairo, with Beirut as a secondary center. It is an outgrowth of the Arabic film industry, also predominantly located in Cairo. The primary style is a genre that synthetically …
Category Archive: Genre of the Week (2010)
Genre of the Week (52) “Flamenco”
Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Flamenco” is a genre of music which is native to several regions of southern Spain. Along with its Spanish origins, Gypsy, Byzantine, Sephardic and Moorish elements have often been cited as influences in the development of flamenco. It has frequently been asserted that these influences coalesced near the end of …
Genre of the Week (51) “Art Rock”
Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Art Rock” is a term describing a subgenre of rock music that tends to have “experimental or avant-garde influences” and emphasizes “novel sonic texture.” Art rock is an “intrinsically album-based” form, which takes “advantage of the format’s capacity for longer, more complex compositions and extended instrumental explorations.” The Golden Age …
Genre of the Week (49) “Ska”
Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Ska” is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the upbeat. …
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