The four traditional pillars of hip-hop are DJing, rapping, breakdancing, and graffiti art. Five additional pillars are sometimes added: hip-hop fashion, beatboxing, hip-hop slang, street knowledge, and street entrepreneurship. Hip-hop music incorporates a number of iconic elements, most notably DJing and rapping, along with things like beatboxing, sampling, and juggling beats on turntables. In early forms of the music, DJs would loop portions of songs, highlighting the interest percussive patterns found in them, to create their own new, emergent beats. These beats were eventually coupled with a rhyming, chanting style of singing, referred to as rapping.
Dubstep (/ˈdʌbstɛp/) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England, United Kingdom. The music website Allmusic has described its overall sound as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals. "[1] The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998, and were usually featured as B-sides of 2-step garage single releases. These tracks were darker, more experimental remixes with less emphasis on vocals, and attempted to incorporate elements of breakbeat and drum and bass into 2-step. In 2001, this and other strains of dark garage music began to be showcased and promoted at London's night club Plastic People, at the "Forward" night (sometimes stylised as FWD>>), which went on to be considerably influential to the development of dubstep.
This music style sometimes aquired chanting and emphasized the syncopated beat. Reggae contained a collection of many different instruments and music genres. Electric guitars, organs, pianos, and drums were the most used instruments in reggae records. Reggae also had some mixed beats from American R and B or other traditional folk music from Africa. There have been a number of successful artists come from Jamaica.
Reggae's origins are in traditional African and Caribbean music, American rhythm and blues, and in Jamaican ska and rock steady (Scaruffi, Piero). Lyrics sung in a Jamaican dialect and often about local people and events. Music is in a slow 4/4 time with accents on the second and fourth beat. Harmonies are limited to a few chords, which are repeated many times in the same sequence. Like other genres such as Hip Hop, R&B, Rap, and Pop; Reggae has grown in many ways.
In this manner: "techno dance music defeats what Adorno saw as the alienating effect of mechanisation on the modern consciousness". Music journalists and fans of techno are generally selective in their use of the term; so a clear distinction can be made between sometimes related but often qualitatively different styles, such as tech house and trance. "Techno" is also commonly confused with generalized descriptors, such as electronic music and dance music. Origins The initial blueprint for techno developed during the mid-1980s in Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit by Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May (the so-called Belleville Three), and Eddie Fowlkes, all of
Hip-Hop: The Past, the Present, and the Future Nick Carlin MUS 304 Dr. Gavin Webb December 7, 2012 Introduction Hip-hop, with its most basic definition, is the combination of the musical genre known as rap and musical accompaniment known as the “beat”. Rap is a musical style that incorporates rhythmic speech, usually with a rhyming pattern. An important distinction that must be made is that while rap focuses solely on spoken lyrics, Hip-Hop contains both a lyrical and a musical component. Although Hip-Hop is described as a genre of music, it can also be seen as a cultural movement that encompasses not only the music, but visual and performance aspects as well. The roots of Hip-Hop can be traced back to the early 1970’s in New York.
While historically, dubstep has been described as dark & deep… there are now many forms of dubstep that have elements of trance music, electronica, hip-hop and even pop. Pretty much every track on the Billboard 100 has been remixed by independent artists as “dubstep.” This is pretty easy to imagine when you consider that dubstep is sample-driven music, typically ripped apart and mixed with copious amounts of bass that is sure to blow out your speakers. ALL ABOUT WOBBLE BASS The most common characteristic of dubstep is what is referred to as “wobble bass.” Wobble bass is a new creation of electronic music where bass notes are extended and manipulated digitally with a low-frequency oscillator and other filters. This type of bass drives the music and is a big reason that the music is so club-friendly (“bro-step” is now a known sub-class of dubstep that adds a bit more of the typical techno-club element to dubstep). When you hear someone remark about that “wub wub wub” sound that has made dubstep famous, they are referring to the wobble bass that is on a majority
Genre Overview * Developed in late 50’s * music originally evolved from the style of Jamaican music that included calypso beats as well as jazz and blues riffs. * The genre became known for its scratchy beats, fast tempo and the piano, guitar (and in later stages, horns) as the prevailing instruments * Ska music became known as the precursor to reggae, and became widely popular in the 1960's * The Specials and The Toasters two figure heads of ska sound * As ska music grew to be a popular genre of music, revival bands in the United States started to form. One such band, The Toasters, could effectively be argued as the frontrunner of the ska revival. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Operation Ivy paid homage to ska music by incorporating a distinctly ska sound into their punk music, thereby creating the ska punk genre. * Finally, during the late 1990's, mainstream ska bands began to see a dip in popularity.
In the mid 60s”Rock Steady”-a slower tempo with emphasis on syncopation-grew out of “Ska”. However, by the late 60s, yet another new Jamaican musical form had emerged-“Reggae”, the most famous of the musical styles developed on the island. Reggae spans the globe and has influenced the music of internationally famous performers in the US, Japan, UK, South America, and the rest of the world. Cuba: For most of the eighteenth
The term "screamo" was initially applied to a more aggressive offshoot of emo that developed in San Diego in 1991, which used short songs that grafted "spastic intensity to wilfully experimental dissonance and dynamics." The genre experienced a popularity boost in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and by mid-2000s the over-saturation of the scene encouraged bands such as Alexisonfire to incorporate more experimental elements. Due to the popularity and evolution of the style to a point of being unrecognizable, the term "skramz" is sometimes used to describe bands from the first wave of screamo. How emo language is uniquely employed? Emo as we know is emotional, and the