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* 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

 

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Blog Particulars

Blog Particulars is a supplemental menu with different articles and guides about music in general

A: Your Music Taste Matters – The blog is set up for you to explore as you wish, skip over the stuff you don’t like or try something new to explore.

B: The Nature of Music- The science & philosophy of sound, music and the human nature as related to music. Scientific evidence. Deep thoughts, emotions, and the human condition interpreted, perceived and replicated in music. Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music.

C: Music Theory for the Lay Person – An introductory guide to understanding music theory as discussed in this blog specifically geared to the beginner or layperson.