Project Tag: Music of the 20th Century

Pop is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. … Rock and pop music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which pop became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. … Identifying factors usually include…

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term “big…

Soul music is a kind of music that mixes rhythm and blues, gospel music and pop music. It started in the 1960s in the United States. Features of Soul Music are call and response, hand claps, body movement and a tense vocal sound. Ray Charles is said to be inventor of Soul with his song…

Rock and roll is a form of rock music developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Rock music combines many kinds of music from the United States, such as country music, folk music, gospel music, work, blues and jazz. Rock and roll developed in the early 1950s from a kind of music called rhythm and blues…

  Reggae (/ˈrɛɡeɪ/) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. Reggae is played in 4/4 time because the symmetrical rhythmic pattern does not lend itself to other time signatures such as 3/4. One of the most easily recognizable elements is offbeat rhythms; staccato chords played by a guitar or piano…

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime Jazz – Wikipedia There are lots of different styles of jazz, including ragtime, swing, cool jazz and bebop.  e-portfolio Template for your responses