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Chinese Music

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Chinese Music, music created by Chinese people of different regions, linguistic areas, ethnic groups, and socio cultural backgrounds, in a wide variety of vocal, instrumental, and theatrical genres. Chinese music has both ancient and modern traditions. The Jiahu bone flutes, found in China in 1999 and which date to 7000 bc, are known to be the oldest surviving playable instruments in the world. The stunning collection of bronze bells, chime stones, drums, and wind and stringed instruments found in the 5th-century-bc tomb of a man known as the Marquis Yi of Zeng revealed ancient China’s rich musical heritage and remarkable achievements in music theory. Today, traditional Chinese repertories are performed alongside modern compositions. Contemporary Chinese popular music, hybrids of indigenous tastes and American popular culture, dominates the mass market in the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
Through the lyrics and linguistic tones, Chinese language has been the foundation for most traditional Chinese music, including folk song, singing narrative, and opera. More than 400 local opera types and more than 300 local singing-narrative types exist, many influenced by the numerous regional dialects. In addition, a significant amount of tunes played by traditional instrumental ensembles, including those for Buddhist and Daoist rituals, originate in vocal music.

Western Music

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Western Music, the music of Europe and of areas of the world settled by Europeans. Western music is one of several separate, highly developed musical cultures, each of which has its own specific theoretical base that encompasses, among other things, its own system of tunings and scales, its preferred timbres (tone colors), its particular approach to musical form, and its characteristic musical textures. As such, Western music stands alongside other major musical systems, notably those of India, Indonesia, Islamic culture, China, and Japan.

Indian Music

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Indian Music, vocal and instrumental music of India, making up a mosaic of different genres and levels of sophistication. At one extreme, classical music is performed in the urban concert halls for purely artistic reasons, and, at the other, many kinds of functional rural musics accompany life-cycle and agricultural rites. In between are many other musical genres of different regions of the country, reflecting the diversity of its peoples, their lifestyles, and their languages.

Latin American Music

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Latin American Music, music of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. The region of Latin America contains a rich variety of cultural and musical heritages, including those of lowland Native Americans in the Amazon area and parts of Central America; those of highland Native Americans in Mexico, Guatemala, and the Andes; those of African Americans, especially in the Caribbean, Ecuador, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, coastal Venezuela, Colombia, and northeastern Brazil; and those of people of Spanish and Portuguese descent.

Rhythm-and-Blues Music

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Rhythm-and-Blues Music or R&B, variety of different, but related, types of popular music produced and supported primarily by black Americans beginning in the early 1940s. Rhythm-and-blues music, also known simply as R&B, embraces such genres as jump blues, club blues, black rock and roll, doo-wop, soul, Motown, funk, disco, and rap. First coined in 1949 by Jerry Wexler, who would become prominent with Atlantic Records, the term rhythm and blues was used as a synonym for black rock and roll in the early and mid-1950s. Until white rock-and-roll performers such as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley achieved mass popularity in the mid-1950s, what was commonly referred to as rock and roll by white disc jockeys and fans was referred to as the latest style of R&B by black disc jockeys and fans.

Rock Music

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Rock Music, group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. Rock music began in the United States, but it has influenced and in turn been shaped by a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country-and-western music, classical music, folk music, electronic music, and the popular music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In addition to its use as a broad designation, the term rock music commonly refers to music styles after 1959 predominantly influenced by white musicians. Other major rock-music styles include rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll), the first genre of the music; and rhythm-and-blues music, influenced mainly by black American musicians.

Folk Music

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Folk Music, the music with which the people of a nation or an ethnic group most specifically identify themselves. It consists of song or pieces taught through performance rather than notation (written musical notes), and learned by hearing. The original composers of folk music are anonymous or forgotten. A folk song does not have a standardized form. Instead, its words as well as its music exist in more than one and sometimes a great many variants, or in slightly different versions. Folk music is most commonly the music of the socially and economically lower classes and of rural populations. Although many folk musicians are accomplished artists who have fine technique and mastery of many pieces, folk music is generally simpler and more compact in style than classical, or art, music. Folk music exists in many different forms and under a variety of social and cultural conditions.

Country Music

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It is the major style of American popular music, primarily produced by white Southerners beginning in the early 1920s. Born out of the folk music of Southern Appalachia, country music encompasses the styles known as Western swing, honky-tonk, bluegrass, rockabilly, and new country. Over the years country music has been influenced by folk, gospel, rhythm-and-blues (R&B), and rock music and in turn has had an impact on these popular genres. Although originally known by the derisive label "hillbilly music," country has since moved into the popular music mainstream and gained wide international acceptance. Country music tends to mirror the concerns, achievements, and lifestyle of the times, and remains an important form of American cultural expression. Western-style clothing and numerous catch phrases from country songs have found their way into American popular culture.

Rap

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Rap or Rap Music, style of rhythm-and-blues music that consists of rhythmic vocals declaimed over musical accompaniment. The accompaniment generally consists of electronic drum beats combined with sample from other musical recordings. The first rap recording was made in 1979 and the genre rose to prominence in the United States in the mid-1980s. Although the term rap is often used interchangeably with hip-hop, the latter term encompasses the subculture that rap music is simply one part of. The term hip-hop derives from one of the earliest phrases used in rap, and can be found on the seminal recording "Rapper’s Delight" (1979) by the Sugar hill Gang. In addition to rap music, the hip-hop subculture also comprises other forms of expression, including break dancing and graffiti art as well as a unique slang vocabulary and fashion sense.

Blues

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Blues, type of music developed during the late 19th century by African American performers. Blues embraces a variety of styles, including down home or country blues, boogie-woogie, classic blues, jump blues, and Chicago (urban) blues. Blues directly or indirectly influenced the vast majority of popular music during the 20th century, including jazz, rock, rhythm and blues, and gospel. Blues can be distinguished both as a musical form and as a style of music. The typical blues form consists of a 12-bar harmonic pattern that subdivides into three groups of four bars each. The 12-bar pattern usually follows a traditional blues chord progression. Musician and composer W. C. Handy standardized this form in 1912 with the publication of "Memphis Blues".