Music Genre Names Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  Год назад +48

    What is your favourite music genre?

    • @purplex360
      @purplex360 Год назад +5

      Various kinds of rock and jpop to name a few

    • @james.strong
      @james.strong Год назад +4

      My favourite is Emo, although I am not an emo. I just find it cool to listen to despite everyone calling me it

    • @emil5294
      @emil5294 Год назад +4

      Metal very much. From the heaviest death and black metal to kawaii metal

    • @masterchaoss
      @masterchaoss Год назад +5

      Stoner Rock

    • @davea6314
      @davea6314 Год назад +7

      You forgot to mention the best music genre called "Bardcore". To find it type in a search for the RUclipsr called Hildegard von Blingin'.

  • @nickimontie
    @nickimontie Год назад +233

    Classical music has genres, too, but technically it's not all "classical" music. There's Baroque and Romantic, as well as Classical. Perhaps a video on these next?

    • @brianedwards7142
      @brianedwards7142 Год назад +6

      I like Early Music too. I've had Fine Knacks for Ladies stuck in my head again this month.

    • @OldMansWar
      @OldMansWar Год назад +11

      Opera is also a Classical subgenre

    • @kkupsky6321
      @kkupsky6321 Год назад +5

      I dunno. He got these all wrong. Let him learn an instrument and play for thirty years and we’ll get back. This was so patronising. He’s no idea. Good try English.

    • @brianedwards7142
      @brianedwards7142 Год назад +6

      @@kkupsky6321 The irony of you using the word patronising in that comment.

    • @kkupsky6321
      @kkupsky6321 Год назад +1

      @@brianedwards7142 I hoped the sarcasm came thru…

  • @bf0189
    @bf0189 Год назад +97

    Dubstep is a reference to dub music not double. Dub comes from Jamaican reggae where they would use studio effects to trip out the production and beef up the bass and have sound system parties. This would have a huge influence on dance music starting with disco / boogie in the late 70a early 80sm. Some twenty years later there was a genre called two step which came from UK garage. It had swingy beats. Well people started making dark and moodier two step with an emphasis on sub bass. Hence the dub in dubstep.

    • @danp420
      @danp420 Год назад +6

      thats correct, 2 step is not very known I guess

    • @Binstone
      @Binstone Год назад +1

      the dub in dub, stands for double thoughv

    • @noahshighlightreel
      @noahshighlightreel 11 месяцев назад +1

      The video creator isn’t very qualified. It annoyed me as a Ska enthusiast 😵‍💫

  • @christopherantonio3612
    @christopherantonio3612 Год назад +123

    Lo-fi means low-fidelity. While hi-fi comes from high-fidelity. Fidelity being the crispness and "fidelity" to high quality souding audio.

    • @pusangmaligalig9058
      @pusangmaligalig9058 Год назад +3

      and wi-fi?

    • @huismus111
      @huismus111 Год назад +4

      @@pusangmaligalig9058With fedility, in contrary to nofi l, which is no fidelity

    • @pusangmaligalig9058
      @pusangmaligalig9058 Год назад +6

      @@huismus111 dont forget pedo-fil to the list brothar

    • @kaeez
      @kaeez Год назад

      @@pusangmaligalig9058funny man

    • @noahshighlightreel
      @noahshighlightreel 11 месяцев назад +3

      He’s conflating lo-fi with lo-fi hip hop. Lo-fi is just a descriptior. Not a genre in itself.

  • @timmmahhhh
    @timmmahhhh Год назад +17

    I ususlly see Indie Rock spelled accordingly, I-N-D-I-E. Having grown up in Indiana, Indy is short for Indianapolis, as in the Indy 500.

  • @HalfEye79
    @HalfEye79 Год назад +51

    You haven't mentioned Industrial.
    In Germany is the genre "Schlager" (which can be translated with "Beat"), which may be a bit between Pop, Country and Folk. But it is never really dying.
    In the 80s there was the style "NDW" for "Neue Deutsche Welle" ("New German Wave"). In the 2000s there was the style "Neue Deutsche Härte" ("New German Hardness"), which follewed in the trails of NDW.

    • @rdbury507
      @rdbury507 Год назад +6

      I was thinking about this during the video. The only styles mentioned are ones known to English speakers and other countries have their own styles that have unique names. Anyway, I think Schager has a lot in common with Motown. (I'm pretty sure that derives from "Motor City", the nickname for Detroit.") Both have a very "Pop" sound and have sentimental lyrics, usually about "Liebe/Love". I think Schlager is more than just Germany or even German speaking countries, but appears all over central and northern Europe.

    • @Amelia-vk4jt
      @Amelia-vk4jt Год назад +1

      We also have Slager in the Netherlands and Belgium, yeah I'd describe it as pop, country, carnival music, the only music were you'll hear a touter or claksen and it perfectly fits the songs

    • @Kylora2112
      @Kylora2112 Год назад +5

      @@rdbury507 Yeah, Motown comes from "Motor City" and specifically the record company Motown that was publishing that style of music.

    • @noahshighlightreel
      @noahshighlightreel 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@rdbury507that really annoyed me. It’s so US-UK-centric that it literally said folk music was just quiet music telling stories over a guitar. SO inaccurate. If you’re going to do that at least mention world music - nope. Didn’t even do that.

    • @marthyparthy395
      @marthyparthy395 11 месяцев назад

      In finland schlager is pretty popular and we call it iskelmä

  • @ScreamingAllTheTime
    @ScreamingAllTheTime Год назад +28

    An interesting thing that wasn’t really mentioned in this video, but for a long while, R&B and Soul (among a few other sub genres) were labelled under one name in the US, Race Music. This wasn’t changed til the 60s I think, because it’s pretty messed up that a bunch of music got basically called “Black People Music.” It’s definitely an important part of music history though, since so much of our music was built upon African American pioneers whose legacies has since been covered up.

    • @Therockfan30
      @Therockfan30 Год назад +2

      Black Americans are just Americans having been in the country just as long as European Americans and their legacy will always be remembered.

  • @Zundfolge
    @Zundfolge Год назад +29

    As for the "Rap vs Hip Hop" thing, I had it explained to me by an old rapper that "Rap is the words, Hip Hop is the music". But that's just conjecture.

    • @Tables-zm7db
      @Tables-zm7db Год назад +1

      Hip Hop is a way of life, rap is ryming words

    • @bossedup3008
      @bossedup3008 9 месяцев назад +1

      Hip-hop is a culture

    • @MINUSENN
      @MINUSENN 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@Tables-zm7dbi like to think of it as twins that were born seconds apart from eachother

    • @frankj10000
      @frankj10000 8 месяцев назад +1

      That's how I always understood it too. Because you can literally rap to all kinds of music. Like, there's a lot of rapping, for example, in '90s Eurodance music. That doesn't make it Hip Hop.

    • @jordanfehr7587
      @jordanfehr7587 3 месяца назад

      I heard its called rap because it stands for Rhythmic American Poetry.

  • @sampugh8266
    @sampugh8266 Год назад +22

    Dubstep is actually a portmanteau of Dub (from dub reggae) and 2-Step (A style of UK garage)

    • @bf0189
      @bf0189 Год назад +1

      This is correct

    • @MrPDTaylor
      @MrPDTaylor 10 месяцев назад

      Sorry close, but no cigar. The suffix step was used to describe different styles of dance music way before 2 step. i.e. techstep, darkstep etc.

  • @SuprousOxide
    @SuprousOxide Год назад +9

    I remember hearing the term Acid Rock and imagining it applied to some sharp hard edge sound, only later to learn that the acid in question is LSD and it tends to be pretty mellow music

  • @someguy165
    @someguy165 Год назад +36

    I think rap is an acronym for "Rythm And Poetry"

    • @darkskinwhite
      @darkskinwhite 10 месяцев назад +17

      it's not, that's some shit corny people made up afterwards.
      before 'rap music' existed people said "rap" in the 60s & 70s meaning just talking. taking fast or a lot. "let me rap with you" would mean let me talk to you.

    • @dildodolphin
      @dildodolphin 7 месяцев назад

      rap sucks

  • @espvp
    @espvp Год назад +17

    Was expecting at least a mention of the many latin american genres like bachata, salsa, merengue, cumbia, tango, ranchera, bolero, and many more. There's also flamenco from Spain.

  • @metal_nerd
    @metal_nerd 8 месяцев назад +2

    Awesome video. I was happy to see metal and ska mentioned. There are a lot of genres out there, too many to include all of them of course... But I was surprised there was no mention of funk as popular as that genre is. Never the less, I enjoyed the video

  • @The0Stroy
    @The0Stroy Год назад +24

    How do we call the vocalist of a Heavy Metal band?
    Lead singer.

  • @taitano12
    @taitano12 Год назад +5

    Classical is music that has stood the test of time. What you're talking about with "modern classical" is technically just "orchestral". Though, most non musicians, and a surprising number of musicians, use "classical" to mean pretty much any orchestral music.

  • @BoynamedMagnus183
    @BoynamedMagnus183 Год назад +2

    It did exist some few Rock And Roll artists/bands after the 40`s and 50`s like:The Rolling Stones,The Yardbirds,The Kinks,Lynyrd Skynyrd,SAFT and Bloodrock in the 60`s and the 70`s,Slade,ZZ Top,T.Rex,83 Special,Aerosmith,The Fabulous Thunderbirds,Terry Reid,Stevie Ray Vaughan,ACDC and The Outlaws in the 70`s,Def Leppard and Axl Rose in the 80`s,
    The Black Crowes,Oasis,The Verve,Drive-By Truckers,Gov`t Mule in the 90`s,Blackberry Smoke,Taylor Swift,Whiskey Myers in the 2000`s and 2010`s,
    The Struts,The Kvednabekkjers and Beady Eye in The 2010`s and Olivia Rodrigo in the 2020`s

  • @laser8389
    @laser8389 Год назад +4

    "Classical" music when it was new went by many names since there are actually many different styles that make up what we now call "Classical" (which is more properly a period of music between the Baroque and Romantic periods). The textbook time frame for the Classical period is typically around 1750-1825, and can be broadly categorized by features distinguishing it from previous movements like Baroque (initially a term meaning something like "over-the-top" and was something of a pejorative term for the music). My favorite, though overly general, way to distinguish Classical from other periods is something my high school music theory teacher used: if it sounds like you're riding a horse, it's Classical (unless it's a song about riding a horse. in which case it might be Romantic, which was famous for "text-painting", or making the music sound like the lyrics). The term itself was used in-period, as the music (and other arts, I believe, though that's not my expertise) was meant to evoke ideas of the "Classical" Greco-Roman world, even more old-timey to them than they are to us, and seen as ideal in many ways. Brief overview of what I remember from several music history and musicology courses.

  • @Kylora2112
    @Kylora2112 Год назад +17

    "Grunge" was more of a scene (specifically from Seattle, WA USA) than a musical style. The Big Four of grunge (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains) have VERY different sounds (Nirvana is punk, Pearl Jam is rock, Soundgarden is acid rock, Alice In Chains is metal); they just all dressed like your typical person from the Pacific Northwest would and all made it big at the same time from the same area (and members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden had a project called Temple of the Dog).

    • @perceivedvelocity9914
      @perceivedvelocity9914 Год назад +4

      Thank you for posting this. I don't think that he understood what Grunge meant. This video was very broad and covered a lot of territory. He did the best that he could I guess.

    • @poetryflynn3712
      @poetryflynn3712 Год назад

      Considering Post-Grunge, Be-Bop, and Shoegaze are things, I beg to differ.

    • @shroomlord682
      @shroomlord682 Год назад +2

      @@poetryflynn3712post grunge also has the the same kinda spectrum, though i dont know post grunge bands as well as i know grunge
      shoegaze isnt grunge, some of it sounds a bit similar to some of grunge, but they are pretty different
      bebop is jazz isnt it? nowhere near grunge
      edit: i forgot to mention that post grunge is trying to imitate grunge but more radio friendly, so different post grunge bands tried to sound like different grunge bands, also stp is a good example of what the original commenter was saying, stp was from san francisco if i remember correctly, came out around the same time (of grunges mainstream popularity, grunge started in the early 80s, stp started in the early 90s), sounded a good amount like soundgarden and pearl jam, yet werent considered grunge by a large amount of people

    • @jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915
      @jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915 Год назад +2

      So the definition of grunge is how gatekept it is? ;)

    • @isteinbergli3510
      @isteinbergli3510 7 месяцев назад +1

      Compared with most genres, grunge isn't that broad - and there is definitely a grunge 'sound'. Different bands found inspiration from different genres, sure, but that's the case in every genre; and the punk (hardcore punk, early post-hardcore, as well as some british punk and post-punk) and metal (heavy metal and thrash, mostly) that influenced the grunge scene isn't all that far apart.
      To me most grunge sound way too similar, so I've grown tired of it. Then again, I'm rarely in the mood for it, and I think more than anything there's a particular grungey mood that connects most of the bands.

  • @kandipiatkowski8589
    @kandipiatkowski8589 Год назад +2

    I always chuckle when watching Star Trek Beyond, when they were describing the Beastie Boys song, Sabotage. Jayla even said she likes the "beats and shouting".

  • @feliciapate7926
    @feliciapate7926 Год назад +3

    If you listen to old school rock, you can hear blues, folk, gospel, and even field work songs (yes, even slave songs) / elements thereof in it.

  • @YakAttack915
    @YakAttack915 Год назад +4

    Amazing breakdown. Kudos for taking such a broad subject with so many different subsections, yet piecing it together in an entertaining and informative way. Great work

  • @Baboonly
    @Baboonly 11 месяцев назад +1

    Finnally! Someone talks about Reggae!! Thank you! ❤❤❤

  • @mk_rexx
    @mk_rexx Год назад +1

    9:18 In my opinion, Hip-Hop music is the music associated wit h Hip-Hop culture, and that music doesn't always involve rapping. Meanwhile. Rap music is an umbrella for music that utilizes rapping including part of Hip-Hop, but also EDM genres such as Trap, and Grime, which may or may not be closely related to Hip-Hop other than the rapping part. Similarly, Electronic music is an umbrella for music that heavily utilizes synthesizers which range from the academic Concrete music, Ambient, to dance genres such as Dubstep, which are mostly unrelated aside from having synthesizers

  • @americanliberal09
    @americanliberal09 Год назад

    2:06 Except for the fact that rock music, in general, can also be heavier, because having a heavier guitar sound is not synonymous with a metal sound. Back in the mid-late 1960s. There are plenty of psychedelic rock bands that also have heavier guitar sounds. But that still doesn't mean that they sound anything similar to bands like black sabbath.
    And, also there was a rock band back in the 1990s called helmet that have a heavier guitar sound. But they still don't sound anything remotely close to being metal.
    So, people tend to forget to realize that metal music has way more characteristics than just having heavier distortion.

  • @michaelcirco3948
    @michaelcirco3948 Год назад +3

    The term Rock and Roll may originate with sailing but by the 1920s it was a popular euphemism in the jazz scene for sex. That's how it got connected to dancing and to music that was said to make listeners dance and away in a lascivious fashion.

    • @michaeldriscoll8537
      @michaeldriscoll8537 Год назад

      Came to say this

    • @ConvincingPeople
      @ConvincingPeople 8 месяцев назад +1

      Was about to say this. The blues song which popularised the term was 100% about sex, although by the standards of the blues of the time that one is honestly downright tame. A lot of those songs are *extremely* explicit.

  • @TheLowstef
    @TheLowstef Год назад +2

    That's my idea! Yay! And my name mispronounced, what an absolute honour 😁

  • @FilthyAnimal893
    @FilthyAnimal893 Год назад +4

    Interesting one not mentioned here, House music got its name because it was the music provided by the host venue, aka the "house" as filler between live acts setting up and breaking down.

    • @mrglasses8953
      @mrglasses8953 11 месяцев назад +1

      Others say it was named after the warehouse nightclub Frankie Knucles was resident DJ at.

    • @ConvincingPeople
      @ConvincingPeople 8 месяцев назад

      @@mrglasses8953Yeah, it comes from the Warehouse in the same way that garage comes from the Paradise Garage.

  • @dcarbs2979
    @dcarbs2979 Год назад +1

    Pete Waterman claims he originated the term 'indie'. He was a very commercial pop producer on his independent label. Because his small label gained a greater market share than major labels c. 1987-1990, the wider industry hated both his sound of music and his success. Due to the success and vendetta against him, the industry split off and no longer considered his commercial pop to be 'indie'. The industry's idea of true independent music was guitar bands, so post 1991, that's what it tended to mean, more than commercially independent (of major labels). Independent labels like Creation, Rough Trade, One Little Indian and Blanco Y Negro

  • @cleokey
    @cleokey Год назад +2

    When I was a kid in 40's, my folks were big lovers of the Big Band sound. We bought a house near the Aragon Ballroom so my folks could go dancing to Lawrence Welk. My favorite was Benny Goodman, his music was very lively. Later the 50's & 60's had a much bigger impact and Big Band orchestras fell out of favor.

  • @rianantony
    @rianantony Год назад +19

    Weird that you didn't mention the many types of metal. I'd imagine there's a lot to the etymology of that

    • @theHeritress
      @theHeritress Год назад +4

      And the only genre I care to subgenre cuz they all sound so unique and distinct xD

    • @jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915
      @jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915 Год назад +4

      Many of which there's no solid agreement over the exact definition, and in which the actual distinctions are so microscopically small that there's virtually no real distinction. Like how the only differention between sh*tcore and speedfilth is whether the song goes over a particular time limit. That's not enough to make it a genre.

    • @callmeishmael5742
      @callmeishmael5742 Год назад +6

      man nobody wants to talk about the etymology of different metal subgenres there's like 40 of them

    • @the_MrFloof
      @the_MrFloof 3 месяца назад

      *pornogrind has entered the chat*

    • @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
      @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 Месяц назад

      @@theHeritressdepends on what you listen to, it's like when native to a language knowing specific local dialects

  • @dashashe
    @dashashe Год назад +3

    "Heavy" metal isn't named so for its subject matter but its"heavy," hard sound.

  • @DrFerno727
    @DrFerno727 Год назад +1

    Yoohoo a fellow metalhead ! My favorite metal subgenres are Power and Folk personally.

  • @WallieTheRed
    @WallieTheRed Год назад +6

    Missed out so many. But happy techno got a mention

    • @greenrobot5
      @greenrobot5 Год назад

      There are way too many, for example the diff between techno and house is just depending on where it was made, trance is faster and usually without lyrics

    • @WallieTheRed
      @WallieTheRed Год назад +1

      @@greenrobot5 wrong, techno is much more synthetic, faster and more low end focused. House sounds more organic and is focused on the mids and has more vocals. Trance again is based more on the mids and long building phases using lots of pads to create a more euphoric sound, it totally contains lots of lyrics.
      As Derrick May said "techno is houses bigger angrier brother.
      Obvs there are countless sub genres these are just my understandings of the differences on the bass form of the genres.
      Ive been collecting records and DJing for over two decades

    • @greenrobot5
      @greenrobot5 Год назад

      ​@@WallieTheRed but house comes from Chicago and techno is from Europe

    • @WallieTheRed
      @WallieTheRed Год назад +1

      Wrong again. House is from Chicago and techno is from Detroit

    • @greenrobot5
      @greenrobot5 Год назад +1

      @@WallieTheRed idk why you wanna argue, techno originated in Europe

  • @Bubbles_the_Siren
    @Bubbles_the_Siren Год назад +1

    Regarding “Classical” music, that became a pop culture catch all for music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and some early 20th century music (including Impressionism among other styles) as well as works created in those styles or “neo-classical” music. More modern compositions are often referred to as “art song” or simply “symphonic”, “orchestral” or “instrumental” works. Some forms of “classical” music seem to be more commonly and appropriately referred to by their own names, such as opera, or film score/cinematic.
    This is purely speculation, but I hypothesize that the term “classical” has been adopted due to the dominance of classical era composers, such as Mozart and Haydn (as well as some early Beethoven). While romantic era composers are arguably more popular (Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Chopin, Liszt…), the term “Romantic” had already taken it’s own different popular definition. Additionally, though Bach and Handel are icons of the Baroque era, that term is too recognizably specific to apply to a more broad collection of music as seen by pop culture. So classical became the term by default. But then again, this is simply speculation.
    Oh, and my favorite genre is rock or metal, though I frequently enjoy opera and film scores. And pretty much anything but country.

  • @SWLinPHX
    @SWLinPHX Год назад +3

    In common usage "soul" is generically used as another name for both rhythm & blues and gospel.

  • @king1876
    @king1876 Год назад +3

    Really interesting man! As a reggae fan

  • @gjdjdtht
    @gjdjdtht Год назад +2

    These cartoons are so adorable

  • @davidfrischknecht8261
    @davidfrischknecht8261 8 месяцев назад

    Small correction about the origin of bluegrass music. It was named after Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. It was that band that got its name from the grass that grows in Kentucky.

  • @xz3ss
    @xz3ss 11 месяцев назад +1

    2 that weren’t covered are: Ambient and D&B (Drum And Bass). Although the origins are pretty strait forward

  • @josh0g
    @josh0g Год назад +3

    Soul is secularized Gospel music. The subject matter is not explicitly religious, and it is blended with blues roots.

  • @christopherbentley7289
    @christopherbentley7289 Год назад

    Thanks for this fairly comprehensive breakdown of music genres. I do feel as if I have been suitably educated, in parts. I've never heard of that proto form of Jazz, Jasm before, for example. It appears that others have pointed this out below, but I have long thought that Rock 'n' Roll's origins lay in it being a Black patois for sex, rather than with anything to do with boats.
    One of my favourite confusions of genres is Rhythm & Blues, on which I note you touched. Back in the mid-Sixties if one had said "Rhythm & Blues" or "R & B" one's mental picture would have been of a group such as The Rolling Stones or Manfred Mann, possibly involving a harmonica (or Blues Harp, as some would say) and when there was a revival in interest in that towards the end of the Seventies it was thought of as "The R & B Revival". However, R & B today appears to describe what I would have thought of more as Soul, specifically the more down-tempo end of proceedings. Talking of Soul perhaps you should have mentioned Northern Soul, at least in passing, as a particularly danceable type of Soul music with its origins in the clubs of the English Midlands and northwards thereof. As a blogger on female Pop from the satellite nations of the former Soviet Bloc I've uncovered quite a bit of (fully natively composed) material that has a very Northern Soul-like beat, which I have dubbed 'Eastern Soul', BTW.
    One huge genre which was touched upon in the Czech TV documentary series 'Pop Story' and which you missed and which was hugely influential around the turn of the Sixties to the Seventies was Bubblegum, or Bubblegum Pop, which had two broad sub-strands - the manufactured Pop, sometimes involving children's Saturday Morning TV shows, where session musicians stood in for the animated characters (or chimpanzees, in the case of Lancelot Link and The Evolution Revolution) and quite faceless groups, which could be made up of an interchangeable line-up of session musicians, which was the American brand of Bubblegum and the groups out of the stable of Cook and Greenaway and Chinn and Chapman and similar, plus the Eurogum of the likes of Middle Of The Road over on this side of the Water, The Bay City Rollers taking the Scottish baton from Middle Of The Road, Scotland being described as "The spiritual home of Bubblegum." in David Smay's book, 'Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth'.

  • @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
    @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 Месяц назад

    Fun fact: surf rock and folk are both actually 2 genres in a trenchcoat each
    vocal surf rock/instrumental surf rock and american folk/traditional folk
    which sound quite different and just got stuck with similar names probably separately

  • @kingjimmycraftofcalderonia2017
    @kingjimmycraftofcalderonia2017 Год назад +2

    Great video. Outside the genres of English music, origins for the name of Latin American genres would be a hot topic.

  • @leiocerayt
    @leiocerayt Год назад +2

    7:48 *Indie

  • @josh0g
    @josh0g Год назад +1

    "Shoegaze" was also a derogatory term coined by music journalists critical of those bands' performances.

  • @pedrofmra
    @pedrofmra Год назад +2

    I missed some popular brazilian music genres like samba, bossa, choro...

  • @ianmacfarlane1241
    @ianmacfarlane1241 Год назад +3

    (07:05)
    Most people agree that punk originated in the USA with the formation of The Ramones, (in 1974) so no, while the UK certainly played a significant role in the formation and growth of punk, it was also popular in North America and Europe.

  • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
    @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 Год назад +1

    I always thought that Hip-hop was just rap but more danceable

  • @osaario7734
    @osaario7734 11 месяцев назад

    My teacher explained in class rap seemed to have a connection to the ancient Greek word for sewing, because they "sew" words together to spread a message. Your theory also makes sense, though!

  • @cha0sunity
    @cha0sunity 11 месяцев назад

    I would suggest the dubstep may have a name origin from the book Necromancer, released 1984, as there is a character in the book who listens to music he called "The righteous dub".

  • @stereotoneband
    @stereotoneband Год назад +1

    Renaissance -> Baroque -> Classical -> Romantic -> 20th + 21st Century

  • @ketchakik
    @ketchakik Год назад +1

    Classical music was an outgrowth of the neoclassical art movement which was heavily steeped in Ancient Greek and Roman. Since the music didn’t really survive it was just stylistically influenced by the art, architecture, and writing of those periods

    • @ketchakik
      @ketchakik Год назад

      Therefore even in the time it was being written it was called classical or neoclassical

  • @cjthechill
    @cjthechill 9 месяцев назад

    Simplified description for what Classical could have gone by: orchestral, concert music or concert hall music, string orchestra, symphony, duet - trio - quartet - quintet - etc. ...

  • @davea6314
    @davea6314 Год назад +7

    You forgot to mention the best music genre called "Bardcore". To find it type in a search for the RUclipsr called Hildegard von Blingin'.

    • @feliciapate7926
      @feliciapate7926 Год назад +2

      Gotta love their stuff.
      Have you ever listened to the stuff written by her sort-of namesake, Hildegard von BINGin?

    • @davea6314
      @davea6314 Год назад +1

      @@feliciapate7926 I have listened to it.

  • @milosvasiljevic7995
    @milosvasiljevic7995 Год назад

    - Ok, Mr Paganini, which type of music do you play?
    - Rapid fast violin.
    - Huh?
    - Erm...Rap Violin.

  • @helenbaumander3953
    @helenbaumander3953 Год назад +2

    I'd say modern music produced with the same methods and instruments as classical is more accurately described as "orchestral". Classical, as you said, refers to arts from the past that we still enjoy.

    • @dansattah
      @dansattah Год назад

      Very interesting. For the Power Metal band "Powerwolf", you can notice the trend of "Orchestral" covers of their own songs.

  • @jonchius
    @jonchius 9 месяцев назад

    Diamond music - harder than metal - it's the sound of life and the song keeps playing ;)

  • @SuprousOxide
    @SuprousOxide Год назад +2

    I feel that "Heavy Metal Thunder" in Born to Be Wild is referring more to the roar of a motorcycle than to the music. Wouldn't classify Steppenwolf as metal.

    • @CaptRich-bi3gp
      @CaptRich-bi3gp Месяц назад

      The grandfather of heavy metal to be sure.

  • @kaileebailee23
    @kaileebailee23 Год назад

    Thank you name explain. Genre breaks my brain and I am just so high rn I needed someone to bring me back to basics before I go attempt to understand p*rno grindcore vs Industrial Slam metal or hyper electro vs deathstep

  • @the_MrFloof
    @the_MrFloof 3 месяца назад

    Quick correction for the Metal vs Heavy Metal distinction: The term "heavy metal" usually refers to a more specific subgenre, sometimes called *traditional* heavy metal. Think of bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, and more recently Ghost (arguably). Metal is the umbrella term for the entire genre, from thrash to deathcore to nu-metal and all the rest. Heavy metal is the original, while all the other subgenres can be seen as "offshoots". 😊

  • @purplecouch4767
    @purplecouch4767 Год назад

    I think these are most of the music genres he mentioned. there’s Pop, Rock/Rock And Roll, Heavy Metal/Metal, Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Blues, Jazz, Rhythm And Blues/RMB, Soul, gospel, Reggae, Ska, Punk Rock, Grunge, Indy Rock, Alternative Rock, Shoegaze, Rap, hip hop, Electronic Music, techno, EDM/electronic dance music, Dubstep, Lofi, hi-fi, chill wave, Vapour Wave, and Classical. Plus there’s many other music genres he didn’t mention. More words and ect. Cool video. bye

  • @xz3ss
    @xz3ss 11 месяцев назад +1

    1:55 but that album is thrash metal, not heavy metal

    • @CCDDofficalRespawn
      @CCDDofficalRespawn Месяц назад

      I knew he would show Master Of Puppets when you said "Thrash metal"

  • @chandlerpaulk4518
    @chandlerpaulk4518 10 месяцев назад

    Pop music is intended to be accessible to the general public, and tends to shy away from complicated chord structures and instead sticking chiefly to the I-V-vi-IV cadence.

  • @tomcrowell6697
    @tomcrowell6697 Год назад +1

    Actually rock and roll doesn't come from ships on the sea.... It derives from black slang and is actually a term for sex as in the lyric, "rocking and rolling all night long.". It was because of this that music like it was named rock and roll.

  • @dexterjones4902
    @dexterjones4902 Год назад +1

    Think rap isn’t a genre but a vocal technique/ feature. Hip hop is a genre that typically uses rap! Nice vid x

  • @americanliberal09
    @americanliberal09 Год назад

    0:26 🤔hmmm....When i was a kid. I didn't even think that pop was synonymous with popular, because i personally thought that pop music was just called "pop" for no apparent reason. Just like rock music was just called "rock".
    But i didn't even know that pop music has its own abbreviation. And, also another fact that i didn't know is that pop music sells more records than any other genre, and pop artists don't even write their own songs. So, i personally thought that all genres are created equal. But that's not even the case at all, because pop music is the only genre that tends to do that. 😲

  • @cjthechill
    @cjthechill 9 месяцев назад

    Pop pertaining to music as a genre/descriptive category is derived from "pop culture", so "pop music" in actuality is "pop culture music".
    It does typically reflect as though the music is popular because pop music is what's chosen to be played everywhere - it's sort of "forced" to be popular, but does not mean it is popular.

  • @Leo_ofRedKeep
    @Leo_ofRedKeep Год назад

    Mendelssohn used the term "classical music" in a letter from 1830 which is the earliest use of the term I know but not his invention. The letter, written in Venice to Carl F. Zelter in Berlin, tells how
    "the pianists there did not play a note by Beethoven… and as I said he and Mozart has something going, they said 'so you are a lover of classical music?' - 'yes', I answered".
    This anecdote is from the liner notes of a CD of Mendelssohn's piano concertos by Andreas Staier and the Concerto Köln.

  • @mrglasses8953
    @mrglasses8953 11 месяцев назад

    Progressive House, Progressive Trance, Classic 90s Trance, Melodic Techno (e.g. Orbital, early FSOL, Ian O'Donovan), Drum & Bass (mostly intelligent/atmospheric/jazzy,) Jungle, 90s Hardcore, Ambient, New Age, Berlin School, House (most styles,) US Garage, Trip Hop, Electro, Electroclash, Future Jazz/Nu Jazz, Classical.

  • @danishviking5068
    @danishviking5068 Год назад +2

    Very nice video

  • @chandradrews3257
    @chandradrews3257 Год назад

    I prefer the other theory to 'Jazz', being that it derived from the 'jasmine' perfumes worn by New Orleans prostitutes (a city where the genre originated). I find this somewhat more convincing than 'jasm' as early jazz bands were often spelt Jas/Jass, i.e. The Dixieland Jass Band.

  • @Arlecchino_Gatto
    @Arlecchino_Gatto Год назад

    I basically enjoy ALL forms of music at least in some capacity. I am not a huge fan of country, but I love the music of Johnny Cash. Some of the rockabilly I listen to dances on the line between rock and country. In addition while I am not a big fan of bluegrass, there are groups like Steve n Seagulls that I absolutely enjoy. I love ska, punk, various types of electronic music (especially Jean Michael Jarre), some rap (the 80s stuff and Baltic Beat Box and Snow) all types of orchestral music. I am a fan of the various kinds of music labled celtic. I like some of the folk music of Native Americans, Africa, South America, Eurpoe, Southeast Asia. But my favorite kind of music is metal. Every type of metal.

  • @wasolaso1840
    @wasolaso1840 4 месяца назад

    Vaporwave is not exactly new or recent. It has been a thing since early 2010s. It originally was an ambient genre comprised of slowed down and chopped up samples of 80s pop music. It had a broadly anti-consumerist theme with aesthetic based on obsolete technology. Its name comes from the term "Vaporware" which means "a product that was announced but never released or officially cancelled", combined with Chillwave .

  • @xandudicanda6303
    @xandudicanda6303 7 месяцев назад +2

    I am getting fed up that each time I watch a video about music genres, itʼs about music genres in the United States. I dare any youtuber to talk about samba, isicathamiya, bhangra, jig, etc.

  • @gibarel
    @gibarel Год назад +5

    I thought RAP stood for "rythm and poetry"...
    Also, kind of sad you didn't talk about non English names/genres, like samba or bossa nova.

  • @krekcabnow2910
    @krekcabnow2910 11 месяцев назад +1

    R&B deserves more attention that you give it. Rhythm and Blues were two separate genres that lumped together because they were both made by black people. The use it stuck for was to refer to rock/pop that wasn’t made by white people.
    A similar combining of names happened with country and western which were lumped together and became country western music or just country.
    I understand if you like to make videos about names but I think you shouldn’t be dismissive of subject matters you are unfamiliar with.

  • @theechickengamerz
    @theechickengamerz Год назад

    I love the obscure Chuck Berry album

  • @sohopedeco
    @sohopedeco Год назад +1

    As a child learning English, it felt pretty weird that "country" was the word for things like "Italy" or "Brazil", and it was not necessarily related to cowboy stuff.

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh Год назад +1

      most country music isn't even related to cowboy stuff

    • @toni6194
      @toni6194 Год назад +1

      Cowboy music

  • @halvolta8526
    @halvolta8526 Год назад +1

    Not going to talk about Industrial, Goth Rock, or New Wave!!??

  • @MenTaLLyMenTaL
    @MenTaLLyMenTaL Год назад

    I thought Metal referred to the use of distortion electric guitar with metal strings as opposed to acoustic guitar with nylon strings

  • @elinakangas571
    @elinakangas571 Год назад

    For a long time I had language misunderstanding. I thought there was a connection between punk (music genre) and punkki = insect in Latin called Ixodes ricinus. Algorithm love ❤

  • @shockwavebboy
    @shockwavebboy 8 месяцев назад

    The term "rap" was slang meaning to talk to someone. Back then it would a regular thing for someone to say, "let me rap with ya younblood?" And rappers don't sing that's how that name stuck. And yes, Hip Hop is the name of the culture which includes : rap, graffiti, DJing, and Bboy or Breakdancing.

  • @yousefalabhoul1967
    @yousefalabhoul1967 Год назад +1

    Isn't rock in "Rock and Roll" refers to the action not the actual rock?

  • @abagz3919
    @abagz3919 Год назад

    Jazz used to be called Jass but it changed cause they thought it was too close to the word ass to be marketable

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko Год назад

    If you've not done a video on the names of visual art genres, might I suggest that sometime?
    -- Twickenhamster

  • @MahmudTurobov27
    @MahmudTurobov27 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks 👍🏻

  • @alvinstrife9201
    @alvinstrife9201 Год назад

    How about those boyband? What is their genre type?

  • @lysaali50
    @lysaali50 Год назад

    Robin Daggers/Robin Sparkles/Robin Scherbatsky the mother of Grunge 🤘🇨🇦

  • @itsyawerrr
    @itsyawerrr 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks so much bro

  • @elinakangas571
    @elinakangas571 Год назад

    I always thought pop music was pop as in popcorn. I am a foreign speaker of English. Love for algorithms. ❤

  • @nathancox6929
    @nathancox6929 Год назад +1

    Thanks

  • @scottbogfoot
    @scottbogfoot Год назад +1

    But what about mariachi?

  • @westtxtapper
    @westtxtapper Год назад

    Country music used to be (and maybe still is) also known as "country and western".

  • @kandipiatkowski8589
    @kandipiatkowski8589 Год назад +1

    Metal does have subgenres too. Slash, death core, black, etc. Not my favorite....too hard to understand sometimes.
    My favorite genres are pretty much anything except country (the ones with heavy twang) and vulgar rap music. I have even grown to enjoy the odd k-pop songs (the ones in English anyway). Classical is very interesting as well.

  • @thenextdoor696
    @thenextdoor696 Год назад

    No Drum N Bass? Wub wub before Dubstep T.T
    Also I guess I can note other forms of electronic like House, Chiptune.
    Also noticed Swing didn't come into the picture, by extension Electro Swing.

    • @pabblo1
      @pabblo1 Год назад

      Drum N Bass (DNB) is quite self-explanatory.
      House comes from the fact that it was the music provided by the host venue, aka the "house" as filler between live acts setting up and breaking down.
      And the term chiptune comes from the fact that these are meant to be the sound from sound chips (oftentimes PSG or FM chips).

    • @mrglasses8953
      @mrglasses8953 11 месяцев назад

      @@pabblo1 House music is named after the warehouse nightclub in Chicago where Frankie Knuckles was resident DJ. Just as garage music is named after the paradise garage nightclub in NY.

  • @Zundfolge
    @Zundfolge Год назад +7

    You're wrong on Rap. Rap comes from the old Beatnik (and later Hippie) term "Rap" which is a shortening of "Repartee" which they used to mean to have a lively discussion and would often be applied to poetry reading. It was picked up by Jazz, R&B and Funk musicians who were the originators of Rap music. Oh well at least you didn't go with the ridiculous "Rhythm and Poetry" nonsense etymology so many young people seem to believe today. Ironically I believe the Beatniks picked the term up from African American urbanite culture of the early 20th century (where I believe it was often used to describe a man's ability to talk to women).

    • @xneapolisx
      @xneapolisx Год назад +1

      Yes, I remember from my younger days, the cooler older dudes who used to hit on a lot of good looking women were said to have "a good rap."

    • @xezmakorewarriah
      @xezmakorewarriah 8 месяцев назад

      so rap was the same as rizz lmao

  • @RadMan42069
    @RadMan42069 Год назад

    The Jazz guy in the thumbnail looks like Stevel Seagal

  • @hannibalwilmetcalf8363
    @hannibalwilmetcalf8363 Год назад +1

    R&B didn't originally stand for "Rhythm and Blues"... In the beginning, it stood for Race/Black music. It was used as kind of a catch all term for all music created by black folks. After a while, the designation "race/black" was recognized as off putting so it was redefined to mean "Rhythm & Blues"

  • @alvinstrife9201
    @alvinstrife9201 Год назад

    How about Hard Rock, Rap Metal and Death Metal?

  • @phoenicianknight7801
    @phoenicianknight7801 Год назад

    Could've added "Folk" music to refer to "Classic" music not from the West/US, but overall amazing video thank you!