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A '''music genre''' (or '''musical genre''' or '''style''') is a [[category]] or label used to describe [[music]] that shares a certain [[style]] or "basic musical language" (van der Merwe 1989, p.3), or that have other certain elements in common. Some [[genre]]s, such as [[Indian music]], are geographically defined; others, like [[Baroque music]], are largely defined by time period. Still others, such as [[B(contracted; show full)ical music is generally a classification covering music composed and performed by professionally trained artists.  Classical music is a written tradition.  It is composed and written using [[music notation]], and as a rule is performed faithfully to the score. ''Art music'' is a term widely used to describe classical music and other serious forms of artistic musical expression, Western or non-Western, especially referring to serious music composed after [[1950]].


=== Rhythm and blues 
music / R&B tradition ===

[[Rhythm and blues]] is a name for afro-american[[blacks|black]] popular music tradition. When speaking strictly of "rhythm  'n'  blues", the term may refer to afro-americanblack pop-music from 1940s to 1960s that was not [[jazz]] nor [[blues]] but something more lightweight. Letters The term "R&B" often refer just to (s to any contemporary) afroamerican black pop  music. NA notable subgenre of rhythm  'n'  blues was [[doo-wop]], which put emphasis on polyphonic singing. In the early 1960s rhythm  'n'  blues took influences from [[gospel music|gospel]] and [[rock and roll]] and thus '''[[Ssoul music]]''' was born. In the late 1960s [[funk]] music started to evolve out of soul. In; by the 1970s funk had become its own subgenre that stressed complex, but yet groovy ("funky") rhythm patterns and monotonistic compositions based on a riff or two. In the late 1970s a thing called [[rap]] (or: [[hip hop]])[[hip hop]] and [[rap]] grew out of funk.ssss

=== Rock ===

'''[[Rock]]''' is a confusing term with multiple definitions. It can be used strictly, referring to very little music recorded after the early [[1960s]], or broadly, to refer to almost all [[popular music]] recorded since the early [[1950s]]. It arose from multiple genres in the late [[1940s]], most importantly the [[jump blues]]. It was first popularized by performers like [[Bill Haley]] and [[Elvis Presley]], who fused the sound with [[country music]], resulti(contracted; show full)
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