Country Rap

 

Country rap, also known as hick hop, hill hop or hip hopry, is a subgenre of popular music blending country music with hip-hop music style rapping. The genre has been identified as a genre for about twenty years.
Artists noted for practising this genre include Boondox, Bubba sparoxx,cowboy troy,Nappy roots and colt fort.
Music journalist Chuck Eddy, in The Accidental Evolution of Rock 'n' Roll, traces the genre's roots back Woody guthrie.


Certain individual country music songs shows a hip-hop influence such as toby keiths's singles "Getcha Some" and "T Wanna Talk about Me," which feature spoken-word verses recited over an insistent rhythm.The same style applies to The Bellamy Brothers' 1987 single "Country Rap." Neal MCcoy has also recorded a hip hop version of the theme song of The Beverly hillbillies called "Hillbilly Rap," which includes samples from other hip hop songs.

Traditional Music

Traditional music is the term increasingly used (e.g by the Grammy awards) for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of world music article. Other organizations have made similar changes, although it remains common to refer to traditional music as "folk music".

Apart from instrumental music that forms a part of traditional music, especially dance music traditions, much traditional music is vocal music, since the instrument that makes such music is usually handy. As such, most traditional music has meaningful lyrics.
narrative looms large in the traditional music of many cultures. This encompasses such forms as traditional epic poetry, much of which was meant originally for oral performance, sometimes accompanied by instruments. Many epic poems of various cultures were pieced together from shorter pieces of traditional narrative verse, which explains their episodic structure and often their in medias epic plot developments. Other forms of traditional narrative verse relate the outcomes of battles and other tragedies or natural diasters. Sometimes, as in the triumphant song of deborah found in the bibical books of judges, these songs celebrate victory. Laments for lost battles and wars, and the lives lost in them, are equally prominent in many traditions; these laments keep alive the cause for which the battle was fought. The narratives of traditional songs often also remember folk heros such as john henry to robin hood. Some traditional song narratives recall supernatural events or mysterious deaths.
hynms and other forms of religios music are often of traditional and unknown origin. Western musicial notationwas originally created to preserve the lines of grigorian chant , which before its invention was taught as an oral tradition in monastic communities. Traditional songs such as green groses of rushes,0 present religious lore in a mnemonic form. In the Western world, christmas calos and other traditional songs preserve religious lore in song form.
work songs  frequently feature call and responses structures, and are designed to enable the labourers who sing them to coordinate their efforts in accordance with the rhythms of the songs. They are frequently, but not invariably, composed. In the American armed forces, a lively tradition of jody calls ("Duckworth chants") are sung while soldiers are on the march. Professional sailors made use of a large body of sea shanties. love poetry, often of a tragic or regretful nature, prominently figures in many folk traditions. Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse  also are frequent subjects of traditional songs.

R&B(Rhythm and Blues)

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a Genre of popular African American Music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.^[
The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s and beyond, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records.Starting in the 1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as Contemporary R&B.

Punk Rock

Punk rock is a Rock Music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in Gargae Rock and other forms of what is now known as proto punk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY eithic , with many bands self-producing their recordings and distributing them through informal channels.
By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk Subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles Of Clothing and Adornment  and a variety of anti-autoration ideoligies.
By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as Hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to post punk and the alternative rock movement. By the turn of the century,  pop Punk had been adopted by the mainstream, as bands such as Green day and The Offspringbrought the genre widespread popularity.

Slow Jam

A slow jam an umbrella term for music with R&B and Soul influences. Slow jams are commonly R&B Ballads or down tempo songs. The term is most commonly reserved for soft-sounding songs with heavily emotional or romantic lyrical content. The common use and possible origin of this term traces back to 1983 when Solar records group Midnight Star recorded the song "Slow Jam" on their album No Parking On The Dance Floor.

Metal Music

Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of Rock Music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in Blues Rock and psychedilic, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distoration, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with masculinity and machismo.
The first heavy metal bands such as Led Zapplin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre. In the mid-1970s Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its Bluesinfluence; Motor Haed introduced a punk Rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Bands in the New Wave of Britsh Haevy metal such as Iron Maiden followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal had attracted a worldwide following of fans known as "metal heads" or "head bangers".
In the 1980s,glam metal became a major commercial force with groups like motel grep and Poison Ungroung scenes  produced an array of more extreme, aggressive styles:thrash metal broke into the mainstream with bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax, while other styles like Death Metal eand black metal remain subcultural phenomena. Since the mid-1990s, popular styles such as nu metal, which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop; and metal core, which blends extreme metal with  hardcore punk, have further expanded the definition of the genre.

Hiphop Music

Hip hop music is an American Musical Genre that developed as part of hiphop culture, and is defined by four key stylistic elements: rapping,Djing/scratching,sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing. Hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City in the 1970s. The term rap is often used synonmously with hip hop, but hip hop also denotes the practices of an entire subculture.
Rapping, also referred to as Mcing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the artist speaks lyrically, in rhyme and verse, generally to an instrumental or synthesized Beat. Beats, almost always in 4/4 Time Signature , can be created by sampling and/or sequencing portions of other songs by a producer They also incorporate synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands. Rappers may write, memorize, or improvise Their Lyrics and perform their works  a capebellaor to a beat.

Creation of the term hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy,rapper with Grand Flash and the Furious FiveHowever, Loveberg Starsky Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywoodused the term when the music was still known as disco rap. It is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing a friend who had just joined the U.S. Army, by scats singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhytamic cadence of marching soldiers. Cowboy later worked the "hip hop" cadence into a part of his stage performance, which was quickly used by other artists such as  The Sugarhill gang in Rapper".
founder Africa Bambatta is credited with first using the term to describe the subculture in which the music belonged; although it is also suggested that it was a derogatory term to describe the type of music. The first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice by Steven Hager.