* 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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