Music Genre Names Explained

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Pop: study.com/academy/lesson/history-of-pop-music-facts-timeline.html
Rock: allthedifferences.com/rock-vs-rock-n-roll/
Metal: www.britannica.com/art/heavy-metal-music
Country: www.britannica.com/art/country-music
Folk: www.makingmusic.org.uk/resource/introduction-folk-music
Bluegrass: www.masterclass.com/articles/bluegrass-music-guide
Blues: www.britannica.com/art/blues-music
Soul: www.benvaughn.com/the-history-of-soul-music/
Reggae: www.thepalmsjamaica.com/brief-history-reggae-music-first-jamaica-world/
Ska: www.britannica.com/art/ska
Punk: flashbak.com/the-story-of-punk-421670/
Grunge: www.revolutioncomeandgone.com/articles/1/the-origin-of-grunge.php
Indy: www.musicindustryhowto.com/what-is-indie-music/
Shoegaze: underground-england.com/history-of-shoegaze/
Rap: www.dictionary.com/browse/rap?s=t
Hiphop: www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/top-10-words-of-the-80s
Electric Music: www.britannica.com/art/electronic-music
Classical: www.classicfm.com/discover-music/music-theory/why-do-we-call-it-classical-music/

[@NameExplain]

What is your favourite music genre?

[@purplex360]

Various kinds of rock and jpop to name a few

[@james.strong]

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

[@emil5294]

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

[@masterchaoss]

Stoner Rock

[@davea6314]

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

[@nickimontie]

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]

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

[@OldMansWar]

Opera is also a Classical subgenre

[@kkupsky6321]

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]

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

[@kkupsky6321]

@@brianedwards7142 I hoped the sarcasm came thru…

[@squidwardstesticles5914]

Small correction from a metal head: metal and heavy metal are not always viewed as the same. Heavy metal is sometimes viewed similarly to how you described “rock and roll” in that it describes the earlier style that the rest of the genre evolved from

[@sextuspompeius1266]

its all garbage it dont matter what its called

[@texanarchy666]

​@@sextuspompeius1266what do you listen to? 😂 mozart?

[@sextuspompeius1266]

@@texanarchy666 60s and 70s rock and 50s and 60s country mostly

[@MrOoYT]

@@sextuspompeius1266 so with your logic any music I don’t like doesn’t need to be named

[@frankj10000]

Yeah, it used to be Heavy Metal for the whole genre up until about the mid to late '80s when you had so many new styles emerging like black, speed, thrash or death metal. That's when Metal became the new umbrella term to include all styles while Heavy Metal is usually only used for the traditional style.

[@christopherantonio3612]

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

[@pusangmaligalig9058]

and wi-fi?

[@huismus111]

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

[@pusangmaligalig9058]

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

[@kaeez]

@@pusangmaligalig9058funny man

[@noahshighlightreel]

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

[@bf0189]

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]

thats correct, 2 step is not very known I guess

[@Binstone]

the dub in dub, stands for double thoughv

[@noahshighlightreel]

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

[@HalfEye79]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@noahshighlightreel]

@@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]

In finland schlager is pretty popular and we call it iskelmä

[@ScreamingAllTheTime]

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.

[@capeverdeanprincess4444]

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

[@Zundfolge]

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]

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

[@bossedup3008]

Hip-hop is a culture

[@MINUSENN]

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

[@frankj10000]

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.

[@sampugh8266]

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

[@bf0189]

This is correct

[@MrPDTaylor]

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.

[@timmmahhhh]

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.

[@someguy165]

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

[@darkskinwhite]

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.

[@CannonadeStudios]

rap sucks

[@rianantony]

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

[@scorchedamber]

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

[@jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915]

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]

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

[@espvp]

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.

[@The0Stroy]

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

[@CannonadeStudios]

hee hee

[@SuprousOxide]

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

[@laser8389]

"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.

[@metal_nerd]

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

[@Kylora2112]

"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]

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]

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

[@shroomlord682]

@@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]

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

[@isteinbergli3510]

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]

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".

[@taitano12]

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.

[@christopherbentley7289]

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'.

[@FilthyAnimal893]

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]

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

[@ConvincingPeople]

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

[@feliciapate7926]

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.

[@BoynamedMagnus183]

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

[@dashashe]

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

[@Baboonly]

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

[@cleokey]

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.

[@king1876]

Really interesting man! As a reggae fan

[@DrFerno727]

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

[@kingjimmycraftofcalderonia2017]

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

[@michaelcirco3948]

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]

Came to say this

[@ConvincingPeople]

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.

[@WallieTheRed]

Missed out so many. But happy techno got a mention

[@greenrobot5]

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]

@@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]

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

[@WallieTheRed]

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

[@greenrobot5]

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

[@kaileebailee23]

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

[@davidfrischknecht8261]

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.

[@SWLinPHX]

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

[@dcarbs2979]

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

[@TheLowstef]

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

[@Bubbles_the_Siren]

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.

[@itsyawerrr]

Thanks so much bro

[@pedrofmra]

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

[@mk_rexx]

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

[@SuprousOxide]

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.

[@helenbaumander3953]

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]

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

[@xz3ss]

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

[@cha0sunity]

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".

[@jonchius]

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

[@osaario7734]

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!

[@josh0g]

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

[@YakAttack915]

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

[@danishviking5068]

Very nice video

[@cjthechill]

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

[@josh0g]

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

[@ketchakik]

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]

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

[@stereotoneband]

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

[@gibarel]

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.

[@purplecouch4767]

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

[@Arlecchino_Gatto]

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.

[@poetryflynn3712]

Johnny Cash isn't country, he's Western.

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

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

[@nathancox6929]

Thanks

[@dexterjones4902]

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

[@MahmudTurobov27]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@leiocera2433]

7:48 *Indie

[@cjthechill]

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.

[@mrglasses8953]

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.

[@elinakangas571]

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 ❤

[@chandlerpaulk4518]

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.

[@americanliberal09]

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 they still don't 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.

[@HayTatsuko]

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

[@tomcrowell6697]

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.

[@gjdjdtht]

These cartoons are so adorable

[@RadMan42069]

The Jazz guy in the thumbnail looks like Stevel Seagal

[@phoenicianknight7801]

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

[@feliciapate7926]

Non-Western music deserves its own video.

[@sohopedeco]

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]

most country music isn't even related to cowboy stuff

[@toni6194]

Cowboy music

[@theechickengamerz]

I love the obscure Chuck Berry album

[@MenTaLLyMenTaL]

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

[@grndragon7777777]

Yay finally

[@Leo_ofRedKeep]

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.

[@chandradrews3257]

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.

[@halvolta8526]

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

[@milosvasiljevic7995]

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

[@shockwavebboy]

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.

[@elinakangas571]

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

[@thenextdoor696]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@abagz3919]

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

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

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.

[@americanliberal09]

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. 😲

[@davea6314]

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

[@feliciapate7926]

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

[@davea6314]

@@feliciapate7926 I have listened to it.

[@xz3ss]

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

[@westtxtapper]

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

[@khakigreengills7814]

Fully electronic music was being made for decades before the 70s.

[@alvinstrife9201]

How about Hard Rock, Rap Metal and Death Metal?

[@alvinstrife9201]

How about those boyband? What is their genre type?

[@frankj10000]

boyband-music

[@Fishtacticss]

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[@blackdragon6]

I thought industrial rock/metal was referencing the fact that the genre sounds like a factory and metalworking. A harsh industrial sound 🤷🏾‍♂️.

[@ConvincingPeople]

Industrial music actually takes its name from Industrial Records, the independent label which pioneering experimental electronic weirdos Throbbing Gristle founded in 1975; the term originally referred to the scene which surrounded TG and their label, encompassing the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, NON, The Leather Nun and Clock DVA, but gradually came to refer to any band or artist heavily inspired by them. Industrial rock and metal only really come into the picture in the '80s, the earliest probably being Killing Joke, Swans, Fall of Because (later and better known as Godflesh), Malhavoc and KMFDM. That said, the name itself was definitely an inspiration to many early industrial artists, with Maurizio Bianchi actually getting into the genre because he didn't feel that TG were taking the concept of "industrial music" literally enough, basically inventing what we'd now call harsh noise in the process.

[@itssryan8431]

Just gonna point out the punk part was a bit wrong, punk originates from rockabilly and surf rock around the 70's, ska started around the 60's based around jazz and Caribbean music it didnt influence punk rock too much but punk rock ended up influencing ska in the 70's and we got ska punk that is what most people refer to when talking about ska. The term punk meant people that were untrained or unskilled in the 70s and wasnt used to refer to prostitutes anymore

[@macsnafu]

I dunno, you might have tried to cover too much in one video. "Classical" for example, can be broken down into various periods and styles, I'm especially fond of Baroque and Renaissance, and electronica has a ridiculous number of subgenres that almost defeat the purpose of having genre names. And you didn't even mention New Wave. Not that I really ever understood what new wave actually was.

[@lysaali50]

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

[@jfdavis668]

Can't believe you mentioned Country without mentioning Western. Most people refer to them together as Country and Western.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

I was puzzled by that myself. TBH it was a bit of a mess throughout.

[@SantomPh]

to quote Bob's Bunker, "both kinds"

[@noahshighlightreel]

This is a good video in terms of explaining history briefly, but it doesn’t really go into the characteristics of each genre (didn’t mention skank rhythms for ska or low fidelity music for lo-fi) and some things are inaccurate, like folk. I don’t think you’re perfectly qualified for this but to explain it to a layman you did a great job. However you can trigger a lot of enthusiasts.

[@johanjonsson2190]

Not a critisism, but it's always fun to see Deadmau5 categorized as EDM as he hates the term😁 I like the term though, but it's use is very varied.