If you’ve been scrolling through playlists lately, you might have noticed something odd. The old genre walls are crumbling. What used to be neatly labeled sections on streaming platforms now blur ...

From street-corner harmonies to electronic drops, American music has seen waves of genres that dominated the airwaves, clubs, and cultural imagination, only to fade as quickly as they arrived. Some ...

Music and the frequencies we listen to tend to have a powerful impact on our emotions and mental state. And it’s not only research that proves this. You may have probably experienced the power of ...

The purpose of a musical genre is to give listeners an expectation of what they are about to take in. Local musician Annie Thoma of the band Killed by Kiwis provided an artist’s perspective on the way ...

When musicians fight to break into the music scene, one of the first things they can do is establish their music genres. Over time, there are some musicians who want to switch things up or find that ...

Considering how music genres can be quite blurry nowadays, a lot of award shows nominate material in what many might consider unexpected categories. Let's take a look at some Grammy genre submissions ...

Country, rap, and pop are the big three music genres of the 21st century. Frankly, and in regard to commercial success, the genres have monopolized the industry to a massive fault. Though that can of ...

Introduction. They never even knew. What is a popular music genre? ; Music/Identification ; Charting popularity -- Foreign music and the emergence of phonography. Sound recording and new modes of the ...