This is gtplanet's own music-wiki regarding genres and their names. Let this post be the place where the accumulated knowledge will be gathered.
I'll begin with some genres and you can contribute.
Art - it 'officially' means modern classical but can also refer to complex, stylish music that labels itself as such
Black Metal - Obsessed with all that is black and satanic. Venom started with their Album "Black Metal" this movement in 1982. There are different kinds of Black Metal. Satanic Black Metal; Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal or even Black Metal combined with other Metalgenres Deströyer 666 as a Blackened Thrash Metal or Behemoth as a Blackened Death Metal Band.
Blues - melancholic (though at times exhilarating) music coming from African-American field workers of the south-east
Classical - composed art (i.e. not peoples') music roughly ranging between 17th century to late 1800's
Classic rock - mostly not dated successful rock songs up to 90's
Country - traditional southern music of America since the 20's replacing the term Hillbilly music from 50's onwards
Death Metal - A theory is that the band 'Death' helped develop the specific sound that was different from the rest of the popular thrash in the 80s. Some people consider the band Death as the father of death metal.
Disco - dance music of the 70s incorporating acoustic and amplified orchestra and refined production
Dream house - subgenre of House starting with Children of Robert Miles, self-explanatory
Drum 'n' Bass (D 'n' B) - A series of drum beats to an electronically-derived bassline (hence the name). Pendulum would be an example.
Electro-punk - Ex. The Prodigy (driftking18594)
Grindcore - A metal genre inspired by the passion by playing fast, even if the song starts to sound like static knives in your eardrums. One of the pioneers was Napalm Death, who came out of the crust-punk scene. The drummer, Mick Harris, was asked about the term. He used the word to describe music by another band, Swans, and said he liked to call it 'grind' as it was the only way to describe the sound. The term -core describes it's connection to hardcore bands of the late 70s and 80s
Grunge - music and movement starting early 90's, stripped out, raw-production rock
Hair metal - 80's metal named after the infamous big hair
House - ???
Jazz - mostly instrumental music, though normal or scat singing is not uncommon, that emphasizes improvisation
Metal - coming from Heavy Metal coined from "heavy metal thunder" in Born to be wild by Steppenwolf
Pop - from 'popular' obviously, has come to refer to easy listening commercial hip songs
Power Metal - Music inspired by the love of Dungeons and Dragons and everlasting virginity.
Progressive Rock/Metal - long ago in the early 70s, musicians were fed up playing the same structured 4/4 songs lasting 3:30 about love. Instead they played 10 - 20 min songs about absolutely nothing. Progressive soon came from the meanings "moving forward" or "widening" or "change". Now it is considered a loose term that can also feature a whole bunch of different styles from indie rock to metal.
Rap - many say it comes from 'rhapsody', rapid rhyming singing
Rave - The music genre formerly known as techno. Examples include Scooter, Ultrabeat and Ferry Corsten. Also has a sub-genre known as "hardcore", which normally consists of sped-up songs and squeaky-voiced lyrics.
R'n'B - Pop/dance music term once reserved for African-American performers, the blues are the melodic and harmonic backbone
Rock - from Rock 'n' Roll, referring to the dancing moves
Shred - music focusing on frenzied electric guitar soloing, pioneers are considered Malmsteen, Van Halen and Rhoads
Thrash Metal - The unique aggressive fast-paced sound of heavy metal and speed metal combined into what is known as thrash metal. Though no one is really sure where the name came from, no one is really complaining.
Trance - subgenre of electronic music with fast tempo and hypnotic elements to make one go 'in trance'
*To be edited with your help*
I'll begin with some genres and you can contribute.
Art - it 'officially' means modern classical but can also refer to complex, stylish music that labels itself as such
Black Metal - Obsessed with all that is black and satanic. Venom started with their Album "Black Metal" this movement in 1982. There are different kinds of Black Metal. Satanic Black Metal; Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal or even Black Metal combined with other Metalgenres Deströyer 666 as a Blackened Thrash Metal or Behemoth as a Blackened Death Metal Band.
Blues - melancholic (though at times exhilarating) music coming from African-American field workers of the south-east
Classical - composed art (i.e. not peoples') music roughly ranging between 17th century to late 1800's
Classic rock - mostly not dated successful rock songs up to 90's
Country - traditional southern music of America since the 20's replacing the term Hillbilly music from 50's onwards
Death Metal - A theory is that the band 'Death' helped develop the specific sound that was different from the rest of the popular thrash in the 80s. Some people consider the band Death as the father of death metal.
Disco - dance music of the 70s incorporating acoustic and amplified orchestra and refined production
Dream house - subgenre of House starting with Children of Robert Miles, self-explanatory
Drum 'n' Bass (D 'n' B) - A series of drum beats to an electronically-derived bassline (hence the name). Pendulum would be an example.
Electro-punk - Ex. The Prodigy (driftking18594)
Grindcore - A metal genre inspired by the passion by playing fast, even if the song starts to sound like static knives in your eardrums. One of the pioneers was Napalm Death, who came out of the crust-punk scene. The drummer, Mick Harris, was asked about the term. He used the word to describe music by another band, Swans, and said he liked to call it 'grind' as it was the only way to describe the sound. The term -core describes it's connection to hardcore bands of the late 70s and 80s
Grunge - music and movement starting early 90's, stripped out, raw-production rock
Hair metal - 80's metal named after the infamous big hair
House - ???
Jazz - mostly instrumental music, though normal or scat singing is not uncommon, that emphasizes improvisation
Metal - coming from Heavy Metal coined from "heavy metal thunder" in Born to be wild by Steppenwolf
Pop - from 'popular' obviously, has come to refer to easy listening commercial hip songs
Power Metal - Music inspired by the love of Dungeons and Dragons and everlasting virginity.
Progressive Rock/Metal - long ago in the early 70s, musicians were fed up playing the same structured 4/4 songs lasting 3:30 about love. Instead they played 10 - 20 min songs about absolutely nothing. Progressive soon came from the meanings "moving forward" or "widening" or "change". Now it is considered a loose term that can also feature a whole bunch of different styles from indie rock to metal.
Rap - many say it comes from 'rhapsody', rapid rhyming singing
Rave - The music genre formerly known as techno. Examples include Scooter, Ultrabeat and Ferry Corsten. Also has a sub-genre known as "hardcore", which normally consists of sped-up songs and squeaky-voiced lyrics.
R'n'B - Pop/dance music term once reserved for African-American performers, the blues are the melodic and harmonic backbone
Rock - from Rock 'n' Roll, referring to the dancing moves
Shred - music focusing on frenzied electric guitar soloing, pioneers are considered Malmsteen, Van Halen and Rhoads
Thrash Metal - The unique aggressive fast-paced sound of heavy metal and speed metal combined into what is known as thrash metal. Though no one is really sure where the name came from, no one is really complaining.
Trance - subgenre of electronic music with fast tempo and hypnotic elements to make one go 'in trance'
*To be edited with your help*
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