Alainn Gozert's List: Interesting Genres

Afrobeat is a fusion of Jazz, Funk and West African Highlife. Nigerian musician and bandleader Fela Kuti is credited with inventing the term and with pioneering and popularizing the style in Africa in the 70s.

Música Popular Brasileira, or MPB, literally "Brazilian Popular Music", designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary influences, from folk to rock and pop.

Neither the origin nor an exact description of Flamenco music is known. It may have come to Spain through the immigrants from Flanders or Flemish persons, or it may have received its "gypsy" connotation from these people as they wandered through the country of Spain.

Minimal is short for minimal techno but also for Minimalist music. This genre can be considered originally American and consists of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells.

Minimal techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that is considered a minimalist sub-genre of techno. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition, and understated development.

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Music can be divided into many genres in different ways. These classifications are often arbitrary and closely related styles often overlap. It may be argued that generic classification of musical styles is not possible in any logically consistent way, and that classification sets limitations and boundaries that hinder the development of music. Labelling music with genres often does not reflect a specific culture, race, or time period. Larger genres comprise more specific sub-genres.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to music:

Music – human expression in the medium of time using the structures of sounds or tones and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch, rhythm, harmony, and timbre.