TIMELINE music styles

the greatest styles of

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from the 20th century

19th century roots

Maestro Javier

19th century Roots& Influences

jazz

blues

gospel

country

old times

other influences

classical

1900s

The Evolution of

English Music Styles

First half of the 20st century

1900s

1910s

1930s

1920s

1940s

Ragtime

Dixieland

The Jazz Age

SwingBoogie-Woogie Pop (Crooner)

Rhythm and BluesBebop

1950s-1990s

The Roots

1930s

Western Swing

Pop (Crooner)

Swing

Boogie-Woogie

1940s

1900s-1940s

1940s

Bluegrass

Bebop Jazz

Rhythm n' Blues

1950s-1990s

1900s-1940s

The Evolution of

English Music Styles

Second half of the 20st century

1960s

1980s

1970s

1990s

1950s

Beat, Folk, Ska, Swing

Funk, Heavy, Punk, Hip-Hop, Disco, Glam

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Rock and RollSoul Calypso

1900s-1940s

1950s

Calypso

Soul

Rock and Roll

1960s

1960s

1970s

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1970s

1980s

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1980s

1990s

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1990s

60s-90s menu

Hardcore

Punk

Skate Punk

Punk

Ska Punk

Pop Punk

Punk Rock

1970s

Heavy

1970s

dance & electronic music

1970s

"Crooners," became popular during the Thirties. The mostly male-dominated genre fit well with the style of radio at that moment and created some of the first music heart throbs, pop stars, and teen idols of the time, mostly male-dominated genre. Bing Crosby, while not necessarily a teen idol type, was also considered a crooner and became one of the first multi-media stars. He was one of the best selling musicians of all time and certainly dominated the charts of the 1930s. Crosby got his start by recording with popular orchestras and soon found solo success with a weekly radio show. He belted out his hits on the air and they would quickly reach the top of the charts as listeners flocked to his distinctive bass-baritone voice. He began starring in several short films where he appeared as himself which helped launched his career.

genre of American Protestant music, rooted in the religious revivals of the 19th century, which developed in different directions within the white (European American) and Black (African American) communities of the United States. Over the decades both the white and Black traditions have been disseminated through song publishing, concerts, recordings, and radio and television broadcasts of religious services. In the later 20th century gospel music developed into a popular commercial genre, with artists touring worldwide.

Coined by music journalist Jerry Wexler in 1947, the term rhythm and blues, or R&B, has been applied to a number of different types of African American popular music. It originally described an urban music style that grew out of the blues in the period after World War II. Today the term is most commonly used for music that is more closely related to soul and hip-hop than to that of the early R&B pioneers. This music, sometimes called jump blues, was characterized by humorous lyrics and upbeat rhythms derived from the piano-based boogie-woogie blues style as well as classic blues. Some performers added jazz and even Latin influences to the mix. Along with Jordan, some of the leading artists in this style were Amos Milburn, Roy Milton, Jimmy Liggins, Joe Liggins, Floyd Dixon, Wynonie Harris, Big Joe Turner, and Charles Brown.

Coined by music journalist Jerry Wexler in 1947, the term rhythm and blues, or R&B, has been applied to a number of different types of African American popular music. It originally described an urban music style that grew out of the blues in the period after World War II. This music, sometimes called jump blues, was characterized by humorous lyrics and upbeat rhythms derived from the piano-based boogie-woogie blues style as well as classic blues. Some performers added jazz and even Latin influences to the mix. Early rhythm and blues was recorded largely in Los Angeles, California, by small record labels such as Modern, RPM, and Specialty.

Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music together. Ska punk tends to feature brass instruments, especially horns such as trumpets, trombones and woodwind instruments like saxophones, making the genre distinct from other forms of punk rock. It is closely tied to third wave ska which reached its zenith in the mid-1990s.

A type of folk song primarily from Trinidad, calypso is also sung elsewhere in the southern and eastern Caribbean islands. The subject of a calypso text, usually witty and satiric, is a local and topical event of political and social import, and the tone is one of allusion, mockery, and double entendre. The calypso tradition, popularized abroad in the late 1950s, dates back to the early 19th century. During the carnival season before the religious season of Lent, groups of slaves led by popular singers wandered through the streets singing and improvising veiled lyrics directed toward unpopular political figures.

Aggressive form of rock music that coalesced into an international (though predominantly Anglo-American) movement in 1975–80. It is often marked by a fast, aggressive beat, loud guitar with abrupt chord changes, and nihilistic lyrics.

By 1880s, brass bands had become enormously popular in New Orleans as well as the rest of the country. New Orleans brass bands, such as the Excelsior and Onward, typically consisted of formally trained musicians reading complex scores for concerts, parades, and dances. The roots of jazz were largely nourished in the African-American community but became a broader phenomenon that drew from many communities and ethnic groups in New Orleans. "Papa" Jack Laine's Reliance Brass Bands, for instance, were integrated before segregation pressures increased. Laine's bands, which were active around 1890 to 1913, became the most well known of the white ragtime bands. Laine was a promoter of the first generation of white jazzmen.

Skate punk (also known as skatecore and skate rock) is a skater subculture and punk rock subgenre that developed in the 1980s. Originally a form of hardcore punk that had been closely associated with skate culture, skate punk evolved into a more melodic genre of punk rock in the 1990s similar to pop punk.

Bebop, the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music. When it emerged, bebop was unacceptable not only to the general public but also to many musicians. The resulting breaches—first, between the older and younger schools of musicians and, second, between jazz musicians and their public—were deep, and the second never completely healed.

Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music. It developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dancing, clogging, and buck dancing. Most folk music includes singing and instrument playing. There are many forms of folk songs. A ballad tells a story. A lullaby is a child’s bedtime song. A spiritual is a religious song. Folk musicians use many kinds of instruments. Some are simple, such as rattles and whistles.

Bluegrass, in music, country and western style that emerged in the United States after World War II. It is distinguished from the older string-band music by its more syncopated rhythm, its relatively high-pitched tenor vocals, tight harmonies, and a strong influence of jazz and blues. It differs from other varieties of country and western music in its driving rhythms and its repertory, as well as in the very prominent place given to the banjo. Mandolin and fiddle are generally featured more in bluegrass than in other country and western music, and traditional square-dance tunes, traditional religious songs, and ballads furnish a much larger part of the repertory.

Boogie-woogie, heavily percussive style of blues piano in which the right hand plays riffs (syncopated, repeating phrases) against a driving pattern of repeating eighth notes (ostinato bass). It began to appear at the beginning of the 20th century. Its bass figures are believed to derive from the running sequence of guitar accompaniment. Boogie-woogie was played in honky-tonks and rent parties on the South Side of Chicago in the 1920s but gained national attention only in the late 1930s. The height of its popularity was marked by a 1938 concert in Carnegie Hall, New York City, featuring its most prominent interpreters. It declined rapidly after World War II. Among the greatest popularizers of boogie-woogie were Jimmy Yancey, Pinetop Smith, who is generally credited with inventing the term itself, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, and Meade “Lux” Lewis.

The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to cultural values. Dances such as the Charleston and the Black Bottom were very popular during the period, and jazz bands typically consisted of seven to twelve musicians. Important orchestras in New York were led by Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington. Many New Orleans jazzmen had moved to Chicago during the late 1910s in search of employment; among others, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and Jelly Roll Morton recorded in the city. However, Chicago's importance as a center of jazz music started to diminish toward the end of the 1920s in favor of New York.

Rock first appeared in the United States in the 1950s. In the early days it was called rock and roll. It developed from other music styles, especially African American popular music (called rhythm and blues) and country music. Chuck Berry was one of the first rock-and-roll singers and songwriters.

Propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917. Ragtime evolved in the playing of honky-tonk pianists along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the last decades of the 19th century. It was influenced by minstrel-show songs, African American banjo styles, and syncopated (off-beat) dance rhythms of the cakewalk, and also elements of European music.

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the genre's decline. The movement was an outgrowth of jazz. The music is an amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka, old-time, Dixieland jazz, and blues blended with swing; and played by a hot string band often augmented with drums, saxophones, pianos and, notably, the steel guitar. The electrically amplified stringed instruments, especially the steel guitar, give the music a distinctive sound.

Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.

During the rise of alternative rock of the 90s, there was a new explosion of punk music with bands like Offspring and Bad Religion achieving great success. Now the themes became more political and wary of several social, phlosophical and environmental issues.

The popular music style known as soul emerged in the work of African American artists of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Some people consider soul to be merely a new term for the music style called rhythm and blues, or R&B. In fact, soul represented an evolution of rhythm and blues.

Pop punk is a rock music genre that fuses elements of punk rock and power pop and pop. It typically combines punk's fast tempos, loud and distorted electric guitars, and power chord changes with pop-influenced melodies, vocal styles, and lyrical themes.

Country music has its roots in the folk music of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Settlers brought this music to North America in the 1700s and 1800s. Country music is defined as “a style and genre of largely string-accompanied American popular music having roots in the folk music of the Southeast and cowboy music of the West, usually vocalized, generally simple in form and harmony, and typified by romantic or melancholy ballads accompanied by acoustic or electric guitar, banjo, violin, and harmonica".

Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early '30s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. The name derived from its emphasis on the off-beat, or nominally weaker beat. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1946, known as the swing era, when people were dancing the Lindy Hop. The verb "to swing" is also used as a term of praise for playing that has a strong groove or drive.

The blues is a type of American music that became popular in the early 1900s. It is closely related to jazz. Instrumental music is important in the blues. Guitar, piano, and harmonica are typical blues instruments. But singing plays the key role in many songs. Rather than simply tell a story, blues singers express their feelings. These feelings are often sad. Often the blues singer sings the first part of a line of music. The instruments then repeat or “answer” the part the singer sang. Blues performers make up parts of the music while performing it, within certain rules. This is known as improvisation. The blues developed from the folk music of Black people in the American South. That music included songs that Blacks sang while working in the fields during the time of slavery. Later, in the early 1900s, the Black bandleader W.C. Handy wrote blues songs that helped make the style popular. In the 1920s Black singers such as Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith made the first blues recordings. In the first half of the 1900s many Blacks moved from country areas in the South to cities in the North. They brought the blues with them. Musicians in Chicago played the biggest role in developing urban, or city, blues. Famous blues performers include Riley “B.B.” King, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy. Blues music has greatly influenced several other musical styles, including jazz, rock, and soul.

Cajun Music

Native American Music

Tejano Music

Appalachian Music

Country music has its roots in the folk music of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Settlers brought this music to North America in the 1700s and 1800s. People in the Appalachian Mountains and other parts of the South created their own form of this folk music. Radio stations began broadcasting it in the 1920s.

Art music, or classical music, is different from popular and folk music. Classical music is more complex. It is usually written down in a form that classical musicians can read off the page. Classical musicians do not frequently improvise. To improvise means to make up music while playing it. Composers usually decide how many instruments should play a musical work. A musical work may be written for only one instrument, a few instruments, or an orchestra. Beethoven’s music influenced many classical composers of the 1800s. Much classical music during this time was dramatic and emotional. Some of the most famous composers from this period are Peter Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms.

Hardcore punk (also known as simply hardcore) is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock.

Country music has its roots in the folk music of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Settlers brought this music to North America in the 1700s and 1800s. People in the Appalachian Mountains and other parts of the South created their own form of this folk music. Radio stations began broadcasting it in the 1920s.