5. Music Genres

As the main task we are required to create a music magazine. Before doing this, I need to do reasearch into different aspects, for example music genre, target audience etc.

Music can be divided into many different styles and genres, and each of these genres can usually be divided into sub-genres.

The main music genres are:

Alternative (college rock, goth rock, grunge, indie rock, new wave, punk)

Anime

Blues (acoustic, chicago, classic, contemporary, country, delta, electric)

Children's music (lullabies, sing-a-long, stories)

Classical (avante garde, baroque, chamber, chant, choral, crossover, impressionist, medieval,

minimalism, modern, opera, orchestral, renaissance, romantic, wedding)

Comedy

Country (alternative, americana, bluegrass, contemporary, gospel, honky tonk, outlaw, traditional, urban cowboy)

Dance (breakbeat, exercise, garage, hardcore, house, jungle, drum and bass, techno, trance)

Disney

Easy listening (bop, lounge, swing)

Electronic (ambient, downtempo, electronica, IDM, experimental, industrial)

Enka

French pop

German folk

German pop

Fitness & workout

Hip-hop/rap (alternative, dirty south, east coast, gangsta, hardcore, hip-hop, latin, old school, undergroud, west coast)

Holiday (chanuka, christmas, children's, classical, jazz, modern, pop, r&b, religious, rock, easter, halloween, thanksgiving)

Christian/gospel (CCM, metal, pop, rap, rock, classical, contemporary, praise & worship, southern, traditional)

Instrumental

J-pop

Jazz (avant garde, big band, contemporary, cool, crossover, dixie land, fusion, hard bop, latin

jazz, mainstream jazz, ragtime, smooth jazz, traditional)

K-pop

Karaoke

Latino (alternativo, rock, brazillian, contemporary, latin jazz, pop, raices, reggaeton, mexicano, salsa) 

New age (environmental, healing, meditation, nature, relaxation, travel)

Opera

Pop (contemporary, britpop, pop/rock, soft rock, teen pop)

R&B/Soul (contemporary, disco, doo wop, funk, motown, neo-soul, quiet storm, soul)

Reggae (dancehall, dub, roots reggae, ska)

Rock (alternative, traditional, arena, blues, british invasion, death/black, glam, hair rock, metal, jam bands, art, pschadellic, rock & roll, rockabilly, roots rock, southern, surf, tex mex) 

Soundtrack (foreign cinema, musicals, original score, soundtrack, TV)

Vocal (standards, traditional, jazz, pop)

World (african, afro-beat, afro-pop, indian pop, japanese pop, zydeco)