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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

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Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pit

genre of popular music, early subgenre of rock music

genre of rock music characterized by slack-tuned instruments, and unconventional changes of tonality (key) and time signature (metre)

genre of popular music

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. It deemphasizes melody and chord progressions and focuses on a strong rhythmic groove of a bassline played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a percussionist, often at slower tempos than other popular music. Funk typically consists of a complex percussive groove with rhythm instruments playing interlocking grooves that create

video featuring a performance of a song

later version of a song recorded by an earlier performer

music of any genre intended to accompany dancing

music genres distributed to large audiences and considered to have wide appeal

ranking of recorded music during a particular time period

genre of popular music

music genre originating from Jamaica

basic unit of time in music and music theory

Raï (, ; , , ), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called () or (), i.e. 'young', as opposed to (, 'shaykh'), i.e. 'old', the name given to Chaabi singers. The tradition arose in the city of Oran, primarily among the poor. Traditionally sung by men, by the end of the 20th century, female singers became common. The lyrics have concerned social issues such as disease and the policing of European colonies that affected native populations.

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musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics

radio format and music genre

thumb|Roy Ayers playing keyboard and alto saxophone (2011) A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments, often but not exclusively at a professional level of proficiency.

musical composition that achieved popularity or hit the charts

guitar technique; part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section

historic name given to a collection of musicians, publishers and songwriters in Manhattan, New York City

Jazz technique

musician hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances

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Backmasking is a recording technique in which a message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward. It is a deliberate process, whereas a message found through phonetic reversal may be unintentional.

group of musicians within a music ensemble or band who provide the underlying rhythm, harmony and beat for the rest of the band

contrasting section of music

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genre of modern popular music lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith

song that peaks in its popularity during summer

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a term applied to a variety of genres of Russian music: thieves song, urban romance, war, emigrants and some popular songs

slower emotional type of song within popular music

music genre; type of farcical or nonsensical singing or instrumentals

style of jazz performance

Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music. Worldbeat is similar to other cross-pollination labels of contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast and synthesis between its modern and ethnic elements.

project in which music is developed / played

Filmi () music soundtracks are music produced for India's mainstream motion picture industry and written and performed for Indian cinema. In cinema, music directors make up the main body of composers; the songs are performed by playback singers and the genre represents 72% of the music sales market in India.

Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.

a type of performance art

stock pattern or phrase in music consisting of a short series of notes

point in music score where rhythm suddenly changes

modern popular music characterized by elements of medieval music and early music in general

Nakasi () or is a traditional popular music form in Japan and Taiwan, most stereotypically associated with elements of working-class culture such as the old tea parlors and drinking bars. One explanation supposes that the word describes the migratory lifestyle of Nakasi musicians, who traditionally travelled from one tea parlor to another. thumb|right|A Nagashi band in a 1953 Japanese drama film Tokyo Story

commercial radio format and music genre, consisting of strongly melodic music using vocal harmony and light orchestral arrangements

is a Japanese musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the sinic reading of hayariuta, used for commercial music of Edo Period. Therefore, imayō, which was promoted by Emperor Go-Shirakawa in the Heian period, was a kind of ryūkōka. Today, however, ryūkōka refers specifically to Japanese popular music from the late 1920s through the early 1960s. Some of the roots of ryūkōka were developed from Western classical music. Ryūkōka ultimately split into two genres: enka and poppusu. Unlike enka, archetypal ryūkōka songs did not use the kobushi method

well-known musical composition, considered part of the "standard repertoire" of one or more musical genres

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