Across
- 2. A style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin
- 6. A form of popular music originating in the rural southern US
- 7. Melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence
- 8. A form of popular music which evolved from rock and roll and pop music during the mid and late 1960s
- 9. A type of popular music intended for dancing to in clubs, typically having a repetitive beat and a synthesized backing track
Down
- 1. A kind of music incorporating elements of rhythm and blues and gospel music
- 3. Music appealing to the popular taste
- 4. Originated in the mid- to late 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues
- 5. A type of highly amplified harsh-sounding rock music with a strong beat
- 8. A style of popular music with a strongly accented subsidiary beat, originating in Jamaica