What's the difference between "traditional R&B," plain old "R&B" and "urban contemporary?" On Sunday night, the 60th Grammy Awards will be held at Madison Square Garden in New York City (7:30 p.m. EST ...

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 ...

When it comes to certain genres of music, some names are pretty self-explanatory: you can picture what"drum and bass" and "Cajun" might sound like pretty easily (and even if you're off, you're ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

Mexico’s fastest-growing music genre on streaming is corridos, with recent catalog data from Duetti and Chartmetric ...