A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music.
Music can be divided into many genres in many different ways. Due to the different purposes behind them and the different points of view from which they are made, these classifications are often arbitrary and controversial and closely related genres often overlap
Here are some different genres of music and a couple examples:
Rock 'n' roll (1950s) - Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley
Rock (1960s) - Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Rock (1970s) - Led Zeppelin
Americana - Dave Alvin, Neko Case, John Hiatt
Emo - Death Cab for Cutie, Dashboard Confessionals
Country - Hank Williams Sr., Patsy Cline
Jazz - Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong
Big Band - Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey
Pop vocalists - Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett
Blues - Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith
Folk - Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger
Reggae - Bob Marley, Toots & the Maytals
Soul - Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding
R&B - Ray Charles, Etta James
Celtic - the Chieftains
Rap - LL Cool J, Run DMC
Hip-hop - Lauryn Hill
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