Talk:Music genre

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cfd nomination for Category:Instrumental and vocal genres
Participate! Why should these two be put together in one category? [|Click here] CN1 (talk) 07:20, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I like your organization of genres a lot, there is a good amount of sources and images to look at, both visually and verbally appealing, professional sounding! great job my guy! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilikesleeping1 (talk • contribs) 16:19, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Group Proposal changes
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Music Genres

I will add this under "Traditional Music"

Traditional X Folk Music
Traditional and Folk music are very similar terms. Although the term "traditional music" is very broad and can approach several different genres, it is widely described that traditional music encompass folk music. According to the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music), traditional music are songs and tunes which have been performed over a long period of time (usually several generations).

The Folk music genre is classified as the music that is orally passed from one generation to another. Usually the artist is unknown, and there are several different versions of the same song. The genre is transmitted by singing, listening and dancing to popular songs. This type of communication allows culture to transmit the styles (pitches and cadences) as well as the context it was developed. Some of the main aspects about culturally transmitting folk songs, its about the period of history it was created and the social class in which was developed. Some examples of the Folk Genre can be seen in the Folk music of England and Turkish Folk music. English folk music was developed since the medieval period and it has transmitted from that time until today. Similarly, the Turkish Folk music relates to all the civilizations that once passed through Turkey, therefore being a world-reference since the tensions between East-West during the Early Modern Period.

Traditional Folk music usually refers to songs composed in the 20th century, which tends to be written as universal truths and big issues of the time it was composed. Great names such as Bob Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary, James Taylor, and Leonard Cohen transformed the Folk music on what it is known today. Some newer composers, such as Ed Sheeran (Pop Folk), and The Lumineers (American Folk) are both newer examples of Contemporary Folk music, which has been recorded and adapted to the new way of listening to music (online) on the contrary of the traditional way of orally transmitting music. Each country in the world- in some cases each region, district and community has its its own Folk Music style. The different sub-divisions of Folk genre is developed by each place cultural identity and history. Because the music is developed in different places, a lot of the instruments are characteristic to its location and population, but some of them are similar everywhere, some examples are: Button or Piano Accordion, different types of flutes or trumpets, Banjo, and Ukulele. Both French and Scottish folk music uses related instruments such as the Fiddle, the harp and variations of bagpipes.

Rafamatalon1234 (talk) 16:14, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Social Influences on Music Selection
Since music has become more easily accessible (Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, etc.), more people have begun listening to a broader and wider range of music styles. In addition, social identity also plays a large role in music preference. Personality is a key contributor for music selection. Someone who considers themselves to be a "rebel" will tend to choose heavier music styles like Heavy Metal or Hard Rock, while someone who considers themselves to be more "relaxed" or "laid back" will tend to choose lighter music styles like Jazz or Classical music. There are five main factors that exist that underly music preferences that are genre-free, and reflect emotional/affective responses. These five factors are:


 * 1) A Mellow factor comprised of smooth and relaxing styles (Jazz, Classical, etc.).
 * 2) An Urban factor defined largely by rhythmic and percussive music (Rap, Hip-Hop, Funk, etc.).
 * 3) A Sophisticated factor (Operatic, World, etc.)
 * 4) An Intensity factor that is defined by forceful, loud, and energetic music (Rock, Metal, etc.).
 * 5) A campestral factor which refers to singer-songwriter genres and country.



Gender
Women are more likely than men to respond to music in an emotional way. In addition, studies have shown that while women prefer more treble oriented music, men prefer to listen to bass heavy music. This is sometimes paired with borderline and antisocial personalities.

Age
Age is another strong factor that contributes to musical preference. Evidence is available that shows that music preference can change as one gets older.

Jaredgoz (talk) 16:25, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Reggae
Hello! I'm participating in an English 1302 class and my professor assigned Wikipedia education. I was tasked with the job to edit this article. I decided to tackle the reggae part in this article. Here are the changes I will make to that section. If you'd like to edit or fix this section, go right ahead! There is a ton of other subsections under the popular music section to add information. Have a great day!

Reggae
Reggae music, originating from the late 1960s Jamaica, is a genre of music that was originally used by Jamaicans to define themselves with their lifestyle and social aspects. The key component that makes a song fall into the reggae genre is the rhythm style. The rhythm style is described with “regular chops on the back beat” (Reggae New World Encyclopedia) which is generally slow. The meaning behind reggae songs tend to be about love, faith or a higher power, and freedom. Reggae music is important to Jamaican culture as it has been used as inspiration for many third world liberation movements. Bob Marley, an artist primarily known for reggae music, was honored by Zimbabwe's 1980 Independence celebration due to his music giving inspirations to freedom fighters. The music genre of reggae is known to incorporate different stylistic techniques form rhythm and blues, jazz, African, Caribbean, and other genres as well but what makes reggae unique are the vocals and lyrics. The vocals tend to be sung in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican English, and Iyaric dialects. The lyrics of reggae music usually tend to raise political awareness and on cultural perspectives.

Emmahenchey (talk) 23:59, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

List order
Has any decision ever been made regarding the order in which the genres of popular music are listed here? I propose for them to be put in either an alphabetical or chronological order. I'd also like to ask on which basis genres are chosen to be included, as the list obviously isn't supposed to be complete. Mainly I think the absence of blues, jazz, and disco are notable, and polka seems a bit out of place. BlueBanana (talk) 14:45, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Genre vs Style
It is definitely worth to the differences (or contrary, the absense of differeneces) between the terms 'music genre' and 'music style' to the article. Many wikipedia articles use these terms interchangeably. But nevertheless we don't have an article or definition for music style, but there is List of music styles that just duplicates the genres from List of popular music genres. Or we have Styles of house music list that covers house subgenres. I guess we need to standartize these list somehow. And I have little idea where you can find relevant sources on this matter, but maybe someone will help here?

It is also worth mentioning and defining subgenre and microgenre terms. Solidest (talk) 09:21, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Social influences on music selection
This section is bogus. I listen to music from the common-practice (colloquially known as classical music, wherein opera can be found) in part because of its sophistication. I do not always listen to it because of it's relaxing nature. This section needs to be fixed, or, in my opinion, deleted. This is because fixing it would mean that those for whom the section is correct would no longer have an accurate representation of why they listen to their respective styles of music: Id est, it is too subjective and can provide no useful information for the reader. I will not delete it and instead leave that for someone with more knowledge of the workings of Wikipedia. 71.34.93.226 (talk) 01:20, 30 November 2020 (UTC) Hyrum

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Restore the page
can you please restore this article? It had many intermediate edits over years that aren't worth throwing away because an block-evading user created it. This has broken many incoming redirects and created a red link in infobox formatting, etc.  Ss  112   20:55, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, ! The deletion was a stupid mistake on my part, for which I apologise to all. It took me some time to restore the page due to its size. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:47, 13 June 2024 (UTC)