Music Genres

4. Coined in the early 1980s, the term “alternative rock” or “alternative music” was used to describe music that didn’t fit into mainstream genres of the time.
7. A vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression.
8. Music is a sub-genre of popular music.
10. Created without the use of electricity. As a genre it refers to folk, traditional, or singer-songwriter modes of music.

1. Generally a classification covering music composed and performed by professionally trained artists.
2. Called the first original art form to develop within the US. It grew out of a cross-fertilization of folk blues, ragtime, and European band music.
3. Music composed of four main elements: rapping, disk jockeying, break-dancing and graffiti.
5. Rhythm and Blues was coined as a musical marketing term used to designate upbeat popular music that combined jazz and blues.
6. Once known as Country & Western music, this music form is developed mostly in the southern United States of America.
9. Also called rock ‘n’ roll.