Initial task research; music and genres

 

There are many different types/different style of music magazines on today’s market, amongst many different genres, on average there are 15 most famous rock/alternative music magazines around and 28 general ‘all-over’ genre magazines covering a range of different types and genres of music.

Genre is defined by the dictionary as: A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

However a genre of music can’t always be allotted a certain genre, and this is where a ‘sub-genre’ is made, a sub-genre is the collaboration of two different genres coming together either in the form of one artist or just a single song. The formation of music can allow for many new genres or subgenres to be made simply through someone’s personal taste or mixing of two different artists.

A fusion genre is a music genre that combines two or more genres. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel music and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm, and style.

Artists who work in fusion genres are often difficult to categorize within non-fusion styles. While there are many reasons for this, the main is that most genres evolved out of other genres. When the new genre is finally recognized as separate, musicians may find them in a large gray area. These artists generally consider themselves part of both genres. A musician who plays music that is predominantly blues but is influenced by rock, for example, is often labeled a blues-rock musician. The first genre is the one from which the new one evolved. The second is the newer and less dominant component genre in the artist's music. What constitutes a genuine fusion between genres and what is merely the influence of one genre on another is debatable, as is the level of originality needed to create a completely new genre. But some genres, such as rock music, are certainly distinct from their predecessors. In some cases, many subgenres appear, and their originality and distinctness are dubious.

When a certain level of individuality has been reached, especially when new styles diverge from more established forms, expressions like alternative rock and alternative country have been used. Such styles are often referred to simply as "alternative".

 

http://www.musicgenreslist.com/

^^Due to music genres being so vast and their being so many different subgenres and fusions I have linked a website that shows a list of genres yet still doesn’t include them all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(the magazine deconstructions have been done by hand)