Types of Music and Their Characteristics
Rock Music: One of the most loved music genres by today's youth, rock is made using instruments such as electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and drums. This music, which first emerged in 1950, also uses instruments like the organ, piano, and saxophone. It pioneered the emergence of Rock and Roll and rockabilly rock movements. Major rock genres include Rock and Roll, Anatolian Rock, Punk rock, pop rock, symphonic rock, rap, and melodic rock.
Pop Music: Popular music, which first emerged in 1945, began to be known as arabesque-pop music in the 1980s. Major pop music genres include soul, funk, disco, and Reggae.
Jazz Music: Jazz music, which first developed in the USA in 1900, uses techniques such as blue notes, swing, syncopation, call and response, polyrhythm, and improvisation. It is a mixture of Western music, African, and American music.
Rap Music: Dating back to the 1970s in the "ghettos" of America, the marginalized neighborhoods inhabited by Black people, rap music is a hip-hop culture. Rap music, formed from the abbreviation of the words 'Rhythm and Poem' (Rhythmic African Poetry), means 'heavy criticism' in English.
