Music Genres Explained; The Origins

This video explores the origins of music categories, explaining how sound recordings' technological transformation and other events heavily influenced popular music genres.

Your taste in music says a lot... We can divide music up into genres and have all sorts of exciting discussions/debates. You know your post-rock from your post-punk; you love to explain how Brian Eno coined Ambient as a music term or how Riot grrrl was the name of a 1991 fanzine. But why do music genres exist, and who invented them?

This is the first episode of my "Music Genres Explained" topic. I hope you'll enjoy it!

#musicgenres #popularmusic #musichistory

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[anthonytarczynski]

Fun fact: The first published blues composition was the ragtime piano piece “I Got the Blues” by Antonio Maggio, an Italian-American immigrant living in New Orleans. He later said he got the idea from hearing an elderly black man playing the guitar in a way he’d never heard before, ie in the style of the blues.

[williamvanniekerk]

I loved every second of watching this😳
So informative and well made, thanks a lot😁✌🏻

[mothtv]

Another excellent intro to the subject Nina! X keep up the good work!

[kerrysmith]

Another great video essay Nina. It's really interesting to see how the different genres still influence each other in some part, even when race and class brought division.

[dxp]

can you tell me what the title of the background music that you used at the beginning of the video?

[flyingdart]

Who knew that black dudes that played blues would somehow lay the grounds for the creation of deathcore.

[ConquerWealth.network]

African Americans influenced music on a global level' All you have to do is listen to what they are doing and what they are saying' The vernacular, the swag, the words and you know it is African American influenced so is reggae music' it is just your version of African American influenced music' Not saying it is not yours because everyone that touches our music adds to the flavor' African Americans during slavery created it out of necessity and culture' because our old African Culture was beaten out of us' so we created a new culture over the years' So we all contributed to the culture but it had its foundation in African American culture of beat making, rap which is CALL AND RESPONSE created as a secret system to communicate withe each other and hide what we were talking about to the slave master' they thought we were just singing and dancing' but we were communicating with wach other how we were about to revolt and free ourselves' but much love to our latin cousins