Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Breakcore” is a style of electronic dance music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and industrial music that is characterized by its use of heavy kick drums, breaks and a wide palette of sampling sources, played at high tempos. Characteristics Breakcore is hard to accurately describe as musicians …
Category Archive: Genre of the Week (2011)
Genre of the Week (15) “Tejano”
Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Tejano” music or Tex-Mex music (Texan-Mexican music) is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas. In recent years, artists such as Selena, often referred to as “The Queen of Tejano”, La Mafia, Jay Perez, Mazz, and …
Genre of the Week (14) “Bebop”
Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Bebop” or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s. It first surfaced in musicians’ argot some time during the first two years of American involvement in …
Genre of the Week (13) “Fusion Music”
Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Fusion Music” is a music genre which combines two or more genres. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm and sometimes the use of long musical “journeys” that can be …
Genre of the Week (12) “Tango”
Tweet Music Genre > Playlist “Tango” is a style of syncopated ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the “Rioplatenses”). It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons. Earlier …
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