MUSIC / Genres & Styles

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Globalization has profoundly impacted the cultural landscape of music globally. Contemporary youth prioritise popular music genres, often perceiving traditional music as antiquated. This shift poses significant challenges to preserving and transmitting cultural heritage through musical practices. This research also aims to understand students’ and educators’ perceptions of this dynamic in China. Using a qualitative …

Reference · Wikidata

Wikimedia music-related list

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

Cheremis Musical Styles serves as a guide to a specific style of folk music only just becoming known to worldwide academia as of its original publication in 1960. The original preface by Thomas A Sebeok printed in the book had the following to say in regards to its contents: "While … Cheremis music has received sensitive and sophisticated attention, yet it has hitherto been approached in a curiously indirect way … .…

Full text · Open Library

"What is the difference between a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the symphony itself? What does it mean for musicians to be faithful to the works they perform? To answer such questions, Lydia Goehr combines philosophical and historical methods of enquiry. Finding Anglo-American philosophy inadequate for the task, she shows that a historical perspective is indispensable to a full understanding of music…

Image · DPLA

Steve Aoki’s dj equipment, consisting of Pioneer CDJ-2000 multiplayer decks, a Pioneer DJM – 8000 mixer, and a RANE SL3 computer interface, creates a world of sound that melds many musical genres and styles together. Designed to recreate an analog dj set from the 1970’s and 80’s, these components use computers to manipulate and make digital music. In the case of Steve Aoki, the master of EDM or electric dance music,…