American Popular Music: Genre

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Across
  1. 3. Music developed in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s
  2. 5. A rhythmic, danceable form of music that mixes soul, jazz, and R&B
  3. 6. A professional story teller, verse-maker, or music composer
  4. 7. Form of American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music
  5. 8. A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style or form
  6. 12. Formal traditional music of Western Europe
Down
  1. 1. A type of music that a person has been exposed to by the mass media
  2. 2. Music consisting of ballads and dance tunes blues, church music and spirituals, old-time and American folk music
  3. 4. A type of song, usually religious, written for the purpose of adoration or prayer
  4. 6. Musical form originated in the Deep South of the United States by former slaves
  5. 9. Music form which originated in the 1950s from black American music
  6. 10. Dance music that emerged in the 1970s from the United States's urban nightlife scene
  7. 11. Music that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States