Table of Contents
* This is an R&B focused blog
The chart below is arranged by music genres and subgenres. There are 9 major categories of modern music listed below starting with “Influences on R&B” to “Hip Hop”. Within each category are commonly known genres and sub-genres grouped in a roughly chronological order.
1 – Influences on R&B
A – The Blues
1 – Rural Blues
2 – Transitional Blues
3 – Urban Blues
B – Jazz*
1 – Swing jazz
2 – Boogie-woogie
C – Gospel
D – Folk Music*
E – Country & Western*
* Please note that these genres are way too big for this blog to cover.
2 – R&B
A – Early Classic R&B
1 – Jump Blues – (1945-1950)
2 – Classic Early R&B – (1948-1954)
B – Rock & Roll
1 – Doo-Wop – (1948-1964)
2 – Rock & Roll’s Golden Age – (1955-1959)
C – Late R&B – (1960-1964)
D – Early 60s Rock & Roll
1 – Garage Rock – (1958-1967)
2 – Surf Rock & Pop – (1962-1963)
The Beach Boys
3 – The British Invasion – (1964-1965)
The Beatles
3 – Soul
A – 60s Soul
1 – Architects of Soul
2 – Soul Influences
3 – 60s Soul Music
4 – 60s Soul – top 10 hits
5 – 60s Soul – top 40 hits
6 – Blue-Eyed Soul
7 – Psychedelic Soul
B – 70s Soul
1 – 70s Soul
2 – 70s Soul – top 10 hits
3 – 70s Soul – top 40 hits
4 – Northern Soul
5 – Philly Soul – Also, see “Disco” in Chapter “6.
C – 80s & 90s Soul & Contemporary R&B
1 – 80s Soul
a – 80s Popular Dance Music
b – 80s R&B Crossover
2 – The Quiet Storm
3 – Contemporary R&B
4 – 90s Soul & Neo Soul
4 – Funk
A – Funk Influences
1 – Soul
2 – Psychedelic Soul
The Temptations
B – Funk Pioneers
1 – James Brown
2 – Sly & the Family Stone
3 – George Clinton
4 – Other Major Funk Bands
C – Mainstream Funk
1 – Funk’s Influence on mainstream music
2 – Earth Wind & Fire
3 – Kool & the Gang
D – Modern Funk Music
5 – Rock
A – 60s Rock
1 – 60s Rock
2 – The Beatles
3 – Folk Rock
4 – Blues Rock
5 – Psychedelic Rock
6 – Country Rock
7 – Hard Rock
B – 70s Rock
1 – Prog Rock
2 – Glam Rock
3 – Funk Rock
4 – Light Rock
5 – Mainstream Rock
a – Classic Rock
b – Album Oriented Rock (AOR)
c – Arena Rock
C – Punk Rock
1 – Classic Punk Rock
a – Punk rock Influences
b – Punk Rock (1st Wave)
c – Post-Punk Rock
2 – Ska Punk
3 – Hardcore Punk
4 – Mainstream Punk Rock
a – Pop Punk
b – Mainstream Ska Punk
c – Later 90s Mainstream Pop-Punk
d – Female Punk Rockers
e – Post-Punk Revival – 2000
D – New Waves
A – New Wave Influences
1 – Glam Rock
2 – Punk
3- Pub Rock bands
B – First Waves – Rock & Punk
1 – Early Post Punk
2 – 80s Power Pop
3 – Ska – 2Tone
4 – African Influenced New Wave
5 – 50s Revival
6 – Rock goes New Wave
E – 80s Mainstream Rock
F – 80s Alternative Rock
1 – Neo-Psychedelia
2 – Folk Punk
Quirky Alternative Pop
3 – Gothic Rock
4 – Industrial Rock
5 – Later Post-Punk Rock
a – Other New Wave & Post Punk bands
b – Madchester Scene
6 – Noise Rock
7 – Shoegazing
G – 90s Mainstream Rock
H – 90s Alternative Rock
1 – Indie Rock
2 – Brit-Pop
3 – Post-Brit-Pop
4 – Emo or Emocore
Screamo
6 – Modern Dance Music
A – Disco
1 – Soul and funk influences
a – Disco Pioneers
b – Philly Soul
2 – Mainstream Disco
a – 1974/75
b – 1976-77
c – 1978-79
d – 1980-1981
3 – Saturday Night Fever
4 – Rock turns disco
5 – Disco Sucks!
B – 80s Pop Dance Music
1 – Synth Pop – Early Electronica
a – Synth Pop
b – New Romantic
c – Nueu Deutsche Welle
d – Other Waves – No Wave, Dark Wave, Cold Wave
2- 80s Pop Music
a – Paisley Park
b – Teen Pop
c – Boy Bands
3 – 80s Blued-Soul – *Also see “60s & 70s Blue-Eyed Soul”
4 – 80s R&B Crossover
a – New Jack Swing
b – New Artists –
*Also See Quiet Storm
5 – MTV
6 – Hi-NRG
7 -Hip Hop/ Electro
C – House Music
D – Techno
Ambient Techno – The Orb, KLF
E – Electronica – EDM
1 – IDM – Intelligent Dance Music
2 – Trip Hop
3 – Post Trip-Hop
4 – Dubstep
5 – Progressive Dance – Progressive House
7 – Jazz & R&B Fusions
A – Jazz Fusion
1 – Jazz Rock
a – Rock bands
b – Jazz & R&B bands
2 – Jazz Fusion
a – Miles Davis
b – Frank Zappa
3 – Jazz Fusion 80s & 90s
B – Smooth Jazz
1 – Smooth Jazz Pioneers
2 – Popular Smooth Jazz
3 – Acid Jazz
4 – Nu Jazz
5 – Jazz Rap
8 – Heavy Metal
A – Classic Heavy Metal
1 – Hard Rock Re-cap
2 – Pioneer Heavy Metal
B – New Wave of British Heavy Metal
1 – NWOBHM
2 – Speed Metal
C – Mainstream Heavy Metal
1 – American Heavy Metal
2 – Glam Metal
D – 80s Metal Sub-Genres
1 – Thrash Metal
2 – Death Metal
a – Grindcore
b – Extreme Metal
3 – Black Metal
90s Scandinavian Black Metal
4 – Power Metal
Progressive Metal
5 – Doom Metal
Stoner Rock
E – Alternative Metal
1 – Hardcore Punk meets Heavy Metal
2 – Funk Metal
3 – Early Alternative Metal
4 – Industrial Metal
5 – Gothic Metal
6 – Rap Metal
F – Grunge
1 – Pioneering Seattle Sound
2 – Grunge
3 – Post Grunge
G – Nu Metal
1 – Avante Gard
2 – Metallic Techno
3 – Symphonic metal bands
4 – Sludge Metal
5 – Metalcore
9 – Hip Hop
A – Hip Hop Pioneers
1- The Four Pillars
2 – The Three DJs
3- Hip Hop Influences
B – Old School
1 – The First “Wave”
2- Planet Rock/Electro Hip-Hop
3 – Mid-80s Crossover
C – Golden Age of Hip Hop
1 – East Coast
2 – West Coast
3 – Gangsta Rap
D – Mainstream Hip Hop
1 – Mainstream Hip Hop
2 – G-Funk – Dr. Dre Snoop Dog
3 -East Coast vs West Coast Rivalry – Tupac vs Biggie
4 – East Coast 90s Hip Hop
a – Wu-Tang Affiliates
b – Native Tongues – Daisy Age
c – Atlanta & Florida
5 – Other Later West Coast
6 – Dirty South
7 – Midwest Scene
E – Millennial Hip Hop
1 – Eminem, 50 Cent, Nelly, Busta Rhymes
2 – Alternative Hip Hop
3 – Crunk
a – Crunk & B
b – Snap Music
4 – Glitch Hop
5 – World Hip-Hop – Latin Hip Hop