This document discusses four genres of music: hip hop, pop, rock, and R&B. It provides brief histories and descriptions of each genre. Hip hop originated in the 1970s in the Bronx and is characterized by rap music, DJing, breaking, and graffiti art. Pop music derives from rock and roll and seeks mass appeal, often borrowing from other styles. Rock music has its roots in the 1940s-50s and centers around electric guitars, while placing more emphasis on musicianship. R&B originated in the 1940s and was initially applied to blues records, later incorporating gospel, soul and funk styles.

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2. Hip hop
Hip hop is a broad conglomerate of artistic forms that originated within a
marginalized subculture in the South Bronx and Harlem in New York City among black
and Latino youth during the 1970s. It is characterized by four distinct elements, all of
which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap
music (oral), turntablsim or "DJing" (aural), breaking (physical) and graffiti art (visual).
Even while it continues in contemporary history to develop globally in a flourishing
myriad of diverse styles, these foundational elements provide stability and coherence to
the culture. The term is frequently used mistakenly to refer in a confining fashion to the
mere practice of rap music.
Hip hop is simultaneously a new and old phenomenon; the importance of sampling to
the art form means that much of the culture has revolved around the idea of updating
classic recordings, attitudes, and experiences for modern audiences—called "flipping"
within the culture. It follows in the footsteps of earlier American musical genres such
as blues, salsa, jazz, and rock and roll in having become one of the most practiced genres
of music in existence worldwide, and also takes additional inspiration regularly from soul
music, funk, and rhythm and blues.

3. Pop
• Pop music is a genre of popular music which originated in its
modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms
"popular music" and "pop music" are often used
interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music
which is popular
• As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements
from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country;
nonetheless, there are core elements which define pop. Such
include generally short-to-medium length songs, written in a basic
format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common
employment of repeated choruses, and melodic tunes.
• So-called "pure pop" music, such as power pop, features all these
elements, using electric guitars, drums and bass for
instrumentation; in the case of such music, the main goal is usually
that of being pleasurable to listen to, rather than having much
artistic depth. Pop music is generally thought of as a genre which is
commercially recorded and desires to have a mass audience appeal

4. Rock
Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United
States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and
later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.It has its roots in 1940s'
and 1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country
music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such
as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical
sources.
Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock
group with electric bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music usually
with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become
extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a
wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. The
dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors
shaping the themes explored in rock music. Rock places a higher degree of emphasis on
musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music.

5. RnB
• Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B or RnB, is
a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the
1940s.The term was originally used by record companies to
describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African
Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with
a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.
• The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. In
the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied
to blues records.Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music
contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B"
became used to refer to music styles that developed from and
incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the
1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul
and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming
known as "Contemporary R&B".