Music Genres

This is a list of some of the music world and their definitions.

African folk - the music rather than as typical of a nation or ethnic group, known to all segments of society and tradition preserved orally in general.

Afro Jazz - This refers to the jazz music that was heavily influenced by African music. The music took elements, marabi Swing and American Jazz and condensed into a single mix. The first band to really achieve this synthesis was theSouth African Jazz Band Maniacs.

Afro-Beat - It 's a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife and funk rhythms, styles, fused with African percussion and song, widespread in Africa in 1970.

Afro-Pop - Afropop or Afro Pop is a term sometimes used to refer to contemporary African pop music. The term refers not to find a particular style or tone, but as a general term to describe the African pop music.

Apala - Originally derived from the YorubaPeople of Nigeria. It 'a percussion-based style that developed in the late 1930s when it was used to awaken the faithful after fasting during the fasting month of Ramadan.

Assiko - is a folk dance of southern Cameroon. The band is usually accompanied by a singer with a guitar and a percussionist, rhythm button Assiko plays with metal knives and forks on an empty bottle.

Batuque - is a kind of music and dance from Cape Verde.

CurveLeather - is a kind of pop music urban Cameroon. Kouchoum Mbadi is the best known group associated with the genre.

Benga - is a genre of popular music of Kenya. It developed between late 1940 and the end of 1960 in Nairobi, capital of Kenya.

Biguine - is a musical style that originated in Martinique in the 19th century. By combining traditional music with the polka-bele, blacks created the musicians from Martinique Biguine characterizedSalon de Biguine three different styles, and Bal de rue de Biguine Biguine.

Bikutsi - is a musical genre from Cameroon. It was developed from traditional styles of the Beti, Ewondo, that is, people living around the city of Yaoundé.

Bongo Flava - is a mixture of rap, hip hop and R & B for the beginning, but this is not a fair trade. E 'Rap, Hip Hop and R & B style Tanzania: a melting pot of great taste, history, culture and identity.

Cadence- It 's a particular series of intervals or agreement that ends a sentence, a paragraph or a piece of music.

Calypso - is a style of Afro-Caribbean music which originated in Trinidad at about the beginning of the 20th Century. Speaking of the roots of the genre lies in the arrival of African slaves, not allowed, to inform each song.

Chaabi - is a popular music of Morocco, very similar to Algerian Rai.

Chimurenga - is a ZimbabweanPopular music is characterized by and popularized by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona word for struggle.

Chouval BWA - features percussion, bamboo flute, accordion, kazoo and wax-paper/comb-type. The music comes from rural Martinicans.

Christian Rap - is a form of rap, which is subject to express Christian faith songwriter.

Coladeira - is a form of music of Cape Verde. Its element rises to funacola is a mixture offunanáa and coladera. musicians include coladera Antoninho Travadinha.

Contemporary Christian - is a kind of popular music, the Christian faith is lyrically focused with respect to the issues.

Country - is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States and '. It has its roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel, kitsch and old-time music and quickly developed1920.

Dance Hall - is a type of Jamaican popular music which developed in the late 1970s, with exponents such as Yellowman and Shabba Ranks. It 'also known as bashment. The style is made by a DJ singing and toasting (or rap) on the first and danceable rhythms.

Disco - is a kind of pop-oriented dance music, 1970s, popularized in dance clubs in between.

Folk - the most elementary sense of the word, music and the townPeople.

Freestyle - is a form of electronic music, American culture is strongly influenced by Latin.

Fuji - is a popular Nigerian musical genre. It is born from improvisation Ajisari / were music tradition, giving rise to a type of music performed Muslim believers before dawn during the Ramadan fasting.

Funana - is a mixed Portuguese and African music and dance from Santiago, Cape Verde. It is said that the movement of the lowerAfrica and the Portuguese crown.

Radio - is an American musical style that emerged in the second half of 1960, when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz, soul and R & B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music.

Gangsta Rap - is a subgenre of hip-hop, 1980's, developed in the late. 'Gangsta' is a variation of the spelling of "gangster" word. After the popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic 1992, the gangsta rap businesslucrative subgenre of hip-hop.

Genga - is a kind of hip-hop got its start in Nairobi, Kenya. The name was coined and popularized by Kenyan rapper Nonino you started Calif Records. It 'a style of hip-hop, dancehall and traditional African styles of music contains. And 'generally (cake) in Sheng, Swahili sung or local dialects.

Gnawa - is a mixture of African, Berber and Arabic religious songs and rhythms. It combines music and acrobaticsDance. The music is both a prayer and celebration of life.

Gospel - is a musical genre characterized by dominant voice (often with strong use of harmony) references to lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian.

High Life - is a musical genre that has emerged and is widespread in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in 1920 and other West African countries.

Hip-Hop - is a style of popular music, usually consisting of a rhythmic, rhyming vocal stylecalled rapping (also known as emceeing) on support lines and scratches performed on a turntable by a DJ.

House - is a style of electronic dance music that 1980 was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the first half. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the end of 1970, Soul and Funk infused dance-influenced style of disco.

Indie - is a term used to describe genres, scenes, subcultures, styles and other cultural attributes, characterized by ordertheir independence from major commercial record labels and their autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

Instrumental - An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other type of vocal music, all music produced by musical instruments.

Isicathamiya - is an a cappella singing style that originated one of the South African Zulus.

Jazz - is an original American musical artForm around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the southern United States is the result of a confluence of African and European musical traditions.

JIT - is a style of popular dance music of Zimbabwe. He played a fast pace on drums and accompanied by a guitar.

Juju - is a style of Nigerian popular music, from traditional Yoruba percussion. Developed in 1920 in urban societies in each country. The firstjuju recordings were Tunde King and Daniel Ojog since 1920.

Kizomba - is one of the most popular genres of dance and music from Angola. Sung in Portuguese, in general, is a kind of music with a romantic flow mixed with African rhythms.

Kwaito - a genre that emerged in 1990 in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early years. It is based on house music beat basis, but usually at a slower pace and with the melodic and percussive African samplesare looped, deep basslines and often vocals, generally male shouted or chanted rather than sung or rapped.

Kwela - is a happy, often Pennywhistle musical path established by South Africa with jazz bases. It evolved from the sound marabi and brought South African music to international prominence in 1950.

Lingála - Soukous (also known as Congo soukous, and previously as African rumba) is a music genre that originated in the countries of the adjacent twothe Belgian Congo and French Congo in 1930 and the 1940

Makossa - is a type of music that is popular in urban areas in Cameroon. It is similar to soukous, except it includes strong bass rhythm and a prominent horn section. E 'was named after a kind of dance Kossa Duala, with clear influences from jazz, Ambassa Bey, Latin music, highlife and rumba.

Malouf - a type of music introduced to Tunisia from Andalusia after the SpanishConquest in the 15th Century.

Mapouka - Macouka also known as, is a traditional dance of south-east of Ivory Coast in the field of Dabou, sometimes performed during religious ceremonies.

Maringa - is a West African musical genre. E 'became used to the Kru people of Liberia and Sierra Leone, led by Portuguese sailors and the guitar melodies and rhythms combined with local Trinidad Calypso.

Marrabenta - is a form ofMozambican dance music. It 'been to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, previously developed Laurenço Marques.

Mazurka - a Polish folk dance in triple time with a lively pace, with a strong accent on the second or third bar. It 's always found to have a hat-trick trill, dotted-eighth-eighth ordinary pair or two pairs of quarter notes.

Mbalax - is the national folk dance of Senegal. It is a mix of popular dance musicthe West such as jazz, soul, latin and rock blended with sabar, the traditional percussion music and dance of Senegal.

Mbaqanga - is a style of African music in the south, with rural Zulu roots that still continues to influence musicians from all over the world. The style was developed in early 1960.

Mbube - is a form of vocal music from South Africa, made famous by the South African group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Mbube The word means "lion" in Zulu

Merengue - is a kind oflively, joyful music and dance, comes from the Dominican Republic

Morna - is a kind of music of Cape Verde who complain of Portuguese fado, Brazilian Modinha, Tango Argentino and Angola.

Museve - Zimbabwe is a popular music genre. Artists include Simon Chimbetu and Alick MACHES

Oldies - a term often used to describe 70 radio format that usually concentrates in the top 40 music 50's, 60 E. Oldies are typically from R & B, Popand rock music genres.

Pop - is a broad and imprecise category of modern music market is defined not by artistic considerations but by its potential audience or potential customers.

Quadrille - historical dance is a dance performed by four couples in a square formation, a precursor to traditional square. There is also a type of music.

R & B - is a kind of popular music combining jazz, gospel, blues, influences, first performed by African-AmericanArtists.

Rai - is a form of folk music, culture, born in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to 1930 and was first in line has been developed by women.

Ragga - is a sub-genre Reggae and Dance Hall, where the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music, sampling often plays an important role in the music ragga muffin.

Rap - this is the rhythmicalSingen delivery of rhymes and wordplay, one of the elements of hip-hop music and culture.

Rare - is a form of processions, music festivals used to the road, usually during the week of Easter.

Reggae - is a music genre developed in Jamaica in 1960 at the end of the year. One particular music that has emerged following the development of ska and rock steady. Reggae is a style characterized by regular rhythm chops on the off-beat, known as baseProstitute.

Reggaeton - is a form of urban music, 1990 has become popular with young Latin Americans in the early years. From Panama, Reggaeton blends Jamaican music influences of reggae and dancehall with those of Latin America, as the bomb, plena, merengue, bachata and, like the hip-hop and electronica.

Rock - is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar, bass, drums, ed. Many styles of rock music also use keyboardTools such as organ, piano, synthesizer.

Rumba - is a family of music rhythms and dance styles that originated in Africa and the slaves were imported into Cuba and the New World to Africa.

Salegy - is a type of design popular Afropop Madagascar exported. This popular dance music sub-Saharan Africa with the Malagasy of Madagascar, South Africa.

Salsa - and predominantly Spanish Caribbean is a different genre is so popularLatin America and among Latinos abroad.

Samba - is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. And 'generally regarded as Brazil's national musical style into account.

Sega - has evolved a combination of traditional music from the Seychelles, Mauritius and Réunionnais music with European dance music like polka and quadrille.

Seggae - invented a musical genre in the mid-1980 by Maurizio Rasta singer, Joseph Reginald Topize times was known byKaya, according to a song by Bob Marley. Seggae is a merger of Sega from the island nation, Mauritius, and reggae.

Semba - is a traditional type of music from the southern African country of Angola. Semba is a precursor of a variety of musical styles from African origin, of which the most famous three Samba (Brazil), Kizomba (Angolan style of music directly from music Zouk derivatives) and Kuduro (or Kuduru, energetic, fast pace of music Angolan techno so) Speak.

Shona music - the music of the Shona in Zimbabwe. There are several types of traditional Shona music including mbira, singing, percussion and Hosho. Very often the music will be accompanied by dancing, and audience participation.

Ska - is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in 1950 at the end of the year and was a precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combines elements of Caribbean calypso and chin with American jazz and rhythm andBlues.

Slow Jam - is usually a song with an R & B-influenced melody. Slow jams are commonly R & B ballads or just songs down time. The term is usually reserved for soft-songs sound with strong emotional content or romantic opera.

Soca - is a form of dance music, Calypso was born in Trinidad. It combines the melodic lilting calypso with insistent (usually electronic music in the past) battery.

Soukous - is a musicalGenre that has been done in 1940 in the two neighboring countries, the Belgian Congo and French Congo in 1930 and the beginning and has gained popularity throughout Africa.

Anima - is a music genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music from the United States.

Taarab - is a musical genre popular in Tanzania. And the 'music from the cultures with a historical presence in East Africa, including music of East Asia, south of the Sahara influencedAfrica, North Africa, Middle East and Europe. Taarab rose to prominence in 1928 with the rise of the gender of the first stars, Siti Binti Saad.

Tango - a musical style that originated among European immigrant Uruguay from Argentina. E 'traditionally by a sextet, which played Orquesta Tipica, which includes well-known two violins, piano, bass and bandoneon two.

Waka - is a popular Islamic-oriented Yoruba musical genre. It 'been tested andpopularized by Alaka from Ijebu batil Alhaja that took the genre into mainstream Nigerian music connecting with concerts and parties, she was the first singer to record an album Waka.

Wassoulou - is a kind of popular music of West Africa, Wassoulou called for the region. It is performed mainly by women, with lyrics that deal with the problems of women in connection with the birth, fertility and polygamy.

Ziglibithy - is a style of popular music that developed Ivorianin 1970. It 'was the first great genre of music in Côte d'Ivoire. The first great pioneer of the style of Ernest has been a partial success.

Zouglou - is oriented dance style of music from Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), which was developed in 1990. It began with the students (les parents du campus) at the University of Abidjan.

Zouk - is a style of rhythmic music from the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. It has its roots in kompaMusic from Haiti, cadence music from Dominica, as the pain of exile and Mack One People.