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Genre Research By Amid Ojubanire

Genre Research

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Genre ResearchBy Amid Ojubanire

Rock

Rock Rock music

Well before it was know as rock it was know as rock & roll  as genre of popular music that originated and in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s it was originally from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music. Then around the 1960s it evolved into different styles particularly in the U.K.. Rock it's self musically is centred around the electric guitar with backing from a electric bass guitar. The golden age of rock was the 1960s as it was a period of time where by a number of distinct rock music sub-genres had emerged. These sub-genres include blues rock, country rock,punk rock and more.

The type of audience rock attracts has differed from time to time as back in the day rock encouraged a counterculture of hippies in the us in the 1960s. Then punk rock as Wikipedia says "spawned" a whole in type of culture ! Goths and Emo's ! The whole genre of rock has been associated with anti government and rebelling against the higher order of power.so would sy the audience would be mostly mid aged or above 35 say they would listen to I when they were at a younger age and grow up with also current teens.

House/Dance

House/Dance House music is according to Wikipedia ‘a genre of electronic dance music that

originated in Chicago in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized circa 1984 in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, it fanned out to other major cities across North and South America, as well as Europe and later Australia Early house music commercial success in Europe saw songs such as "Pump Up The Volume" by MARRS (1987), "House Nation" by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy of House (1987), "Theme from S'Express" by S'Express (1988) and "Doctorin' the House" by Coldcut (1988) in the pop charts. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.

Also, the genre of house and dance there various sub genre that go string from it for example deep house with is a more chilled out flow and more soulful tones as well as complex melody, use of unrelated chromatic chords underlying most sequences according to Wikipedia. Most popular example includes ‘storm queen look right through’ which was hugely successful in the United Kingdom, and helped the track enter at number one on the UK Singles Chart and UK Dance Chart simultaneously on November 10, 2013.

The type of audience it attracts is actually similar to the rock audience as like with rock, house music is genre to most middle aged people in the 70-90 have grow up with and now the revamped version of the genre has also drawn the younger generation.