Since ancient times, music has accompanied human life. With the resettlement of people to new lands, with the development of new cultures, rituals, culture and life changed, new genres of music arose. First, a folk genre was born, then spiritual and classical, and then everyone else. In this article we will talk about what styles of music exist today.
The very first genre was folk music. Each nation had its own way of life, its holidays and rites, its own customs. And often a significant event was accompanied by music. With the help of chants, the people asked the gods for harvest, victory in the battle. Now there are more than 100 folk styles. First of all, they are divided by place of origin. The following is a list describing which genres of folk music currently exist:
- the music of Oceania and Australia is bangull, wangga, kun-borrk;
- Africa - Angolan, Algerian, Ethiopian, Madagascar, Kenyan, Nigerian music, Calypso, Kizomba, Paradise, Kuduro;
- Central Asia - Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek folk music;
- South and East Asia - Mongolian, Buryat, Altai, Tibetan, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Filipino, Bhutan and Chinese music;
- Transcaucasia and the Caucasus - Adzharian, Abkhazian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Ingush, Ossetian, Chechen music, as well as mugam, ovsharas, etc .;
- The Middle East - Iranian, Iraqi, Afghan, Pakistani, Turkish, Syrian;
- music of the peoples of Eastern Europe - Russian, Ukrainian, Mari, Slovak, Montenegrin, Romanian, Greek, Tatar;
- Western Europe - Celtic, Swedish, Finnish, Germanic, Austrian, Irish, English, Scottish, Cornish, Welsh music, bolero, flamenco, fado;
- Latin America - Colombian, Venezuelan, Paraguayan, Argentinean;
- North America - Native American, Canadian, Mexican, Cuban, as well as Mariachi, Mento, Panamanian;
- modern folk music genres - ethnic, folk baroque, progressive folk.
With the advent of religion, spiritual music was born - Christian, Jewish, Kabbalistic, Apostolic, Catholic, Orthodox, Islamic, African American. Armenian hymn, mass and gospel appeared. Then classical music was born - Indian (musical hundustani, Karnataka music), Arabic (ram, gazal, Furudasht, etc.) and European (revival, baroque, classicism, salon music, romanticism, modernism, neoclassicism, etc.). Often this or that style of music corresponded to a certain era. Then the rest of the genres of music were born . This is blues, jazz, rock, rhythm and blues, country, songwriter, romance, chanson, electronic music, ska, reggae. All genres of music are divided into many subgenres:
- blues - rural, texas, electro, harp, delta, chicago, swap, zaydeko;
- jazz - hot, dixieland, swing, bebop, mainstream, northeastern, Kansas city, progressive, avant-garde, jazz-funk, troubled jazz, ethnic jazz (for example, Afro-Cuban);
- rhythm and blues - funk, soul, neosoul, etc .;
- genres of electronic music - there are about fifty of them. This is spectral, computer music, industrial, noise, trip, free, ambient, dark, mediative, electro clash, detroit electro, new age, garage, new electro, Techno-punk, ragga jungle, tracker, 8 bits, hardstep, 16 bit, funky house, hardcore, trance, jumpstyle and many others;
- rock - punk, metal, thrash, rock and roll.