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MusicalWork |
A Work intended to be perceivable as a combination of sounds, with or without accompanying
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AfroFunk |
Combines a funk style with traditional West African percussion. Unlike Afrobeat, Afrofunk
does not have a jazz influence.
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AlternativeRAndB |
Contemporary R&B that blends with Electronic, Rock, and Pop genres. |
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BlueEyedSoul |
Blue-Eyed Soul is soul music performed by white artists. |
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Boogie |
Also known as Post-disco, Boogie music combines R&B and EDM. It originated in the
United States in the late 1970s.
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ChicagoSoul |
Heavily influenced by gospel music. Lighter in approach compared to southern and country-soul,
it spurred the album- oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s.
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ClassicRAndB |
An abbreviation for Rhythm & Blues, R&B originated in the 1940s in the African American
community. Early R&B lyrics usually described the pain and struggle for freedom of
the African American community. Instrumentation included electric guitars, drums,
horns, lead vocals, and background vocals. Notable Early R&B artists include Louis
Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris.
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ContemporaryRAndB |
Smooth-sounding, with many electronic elements - drum machines, synthesizers and generally
electronic timbres predominate, along with lush vocal arrangements, creative production,
and extensive use of pitch corrected vocals.
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DeepSoul |
Similar in sound and aesthetic to Southern Soul with more prominent gospel-vocal influences. |
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Disco |
Dance music style that originated in the United States in the early to late 1970s
that fuses R&B, Funk & Soul music. Unlike the simpler four-piece band sound of the
funk & soul of the late 1960s, disco music often included vocalists, with several
chordal instruments (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer), several drum or percussion instruments
(drumkit, Latin percussion, electronic drums), a horn section, a string orchestra,
and a variety of 'classical' solo instruments. Not coincidentally Disco was generally
a producer led genre rather than as centered as much around the artists as other genres.
As a genre that introduced dj's, dance clubs, extended mixes and remixes, Disco is
the true beginning and basis for all dance music
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DooWop |
Doo Wop grafted African-American Gospel sensibilities with R&B and Rock N' Roll rhythms.
'Doo Wop' describes the intricate vocal interplay in the music; smooth diatonic vocal
harmonies, shouts, and rhythmic vocals both respond to and accompany the lead vocal,
as it is frequently traded-off between the singers of the group
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Funk |
Created in the 1960s in the African American community as a blending of Soul, Jazz,
and R&B. The genre deemphasizes melody and focuses on groove and bassline.
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GoGo |
Heavily syncopated funk music with a large percussion section originating for Washington
DC in the 1960s and 1970s.
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HiNRG |
Typified by a fast tempo, staccato hi-hat rhythms (and the four-on-the-floor pattern),
reverberated 'intense' vocals and 'pulsating' octave basslines, it was particularly
influential on the EDM scene. It originated in the United States in the late 1970s
and is pronounced 'high energy'.
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ItaloDisco |
Disco music produced in Italy mainly from the 1970s to the late 1980s. |
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MemphisSoul |
Memphis Soul is a funkier soul music which describes pioneered by the artists of Memphis'
Stax and Hi Records.
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MinneapolisFunk |
Funk with elements of synth pop and new-wave that originated in Minneapolis in the
late 1970s (in Prince's mind, basically). e.g. Prince, SOS Band, Morris Day & The
Time, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Janet Jackson
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ModernRAndB |
R&B (modern) describes the modern fusion of soul gospel and funk with modern production
techniques and technologies including sampling and synthesis.
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MotownSound |
Named after the legendary Detroit record label founded by Berry Gordy, Motown was
the first African-American owned label featuring African-American artists to achieve
American mainstream popular success. The 'Motown Sound' characterized by soft, smooth,
soulful vocals over simple, straight-forward arrangements with highly memorable melodic
hooks echoing throughout the instrumentation. Motown's success and distinctive sound
can be attributed to the use of the same songwriters, producers, musicians and studio
for every recording. Notably, the Funk Brothers, a group of highly-talented session
musicians who helped defined the sound and craft of Motown's music.
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NeoSoul |
Neo-soul is the 1990s (to present) modern R&B re-invention of the classic soul era.
It is a fusion of R&B's modern production techniques with a return to the singer-songwriter
tradition and sound of the classic era of soul music. In unison with the identity
of the classic soul music movement Neo-soul focuses on black American identity unity
and socio-political consciousness.
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NewJackSwing |
Originally called Swingbeat, New Jack Swing is the infusion of hip-hop beat-production
techniques with the songwriting and sensual singing style of contemporary R&B. Producer
and songwriter Teddy Riley is often credited as the founding force of the New Jack
Swing sound (along with early Babyface & L.A. Reid).
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NewOrleansRAndB |
Buoyed by a usually uptempo and cheerful aesthetic, New Orleans R&B is primarily driven
by piano, horn sections and vocal groups. However, it is also characterized by laid-back,
swaying rhythms.
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OGFunk |
e.g. James Brown, The J.B.s, The Meters, Bobby Byrd, Lyn Colins |
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PFunk |
Music created by George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. |
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Phillysound |
Phillysound is the highly-produced and arranged soul music sound of 1970s Philadelphia.
It's lush, impressive orchestrations include sweeping strings, intricate vocal interplay,
horns and melodic jazz undertones. The Phillysound is the forerunner to Disco and
Modern Urban and R&B.
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PopFunk |
Funk combined with pop elements. e.g. Earth Wind & Fire, Kool & The Gang (post 1978),
Brass Construction, LTD, Quincy Jones
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PsychedelicSoul |
Considered to be a precursor to funk, Psychedelic Soul combines the modern technologies
of the late 1960s including electronic keyboards and synthesizers, guitar effects,
studio effects and production techniques similarly used in Psychedelic Rock to infuse
esoteric, ambient and distorted textures into traditional soul arrangements.
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QuietStorm |
R&B's answer to soft rock and adult contemporary. Primarily ballad-driven, soft, subdued
and sensual anthems, Quiet Storm was inspired by the Smokey Robinson album 'A Quiet
Storm'.
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RetroSoul |
Retro Soul is the carbon copy re-creation of the musically-defining ingredients of
the classic era of soul typically including the replication of vintage production
aesthetics instrumentation arrangements and songwriting style.
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Soul |
Developed in the African American community combining influences from traditional
Gospel Music, Rhythm & Blues, and Rock n' Roll. Some notable artists are Ray Charles,
James Brown, and Sam Cooke.
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SouthernSoul |
Southern Soul is gritty, funky soul that borrows from southern gospel and high energy
rhythm and blues. It is distinguished by a gospel- tinged singer, punchy horns, chicken-scratch
guitars and tight rhythm sections.
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TraditionalRAndB |
A catch-all term referring to the first several decades of R&B's existence -- during
which the genre emphasized blues- like rhythms, tight and spare instrumentation, and
vocal groups.
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UrbanContemporaryGospel |
A modern form of Christian music that expresses either personal or a communal belief
regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream
secular music. Musically, it follows the trends in secular urban contemporary music.
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WestCoastSoul |
e.g. Johnny Otis, Barry White, Brenda Holloway, SOLAR. |
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A Type of genre.
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DDEX Data Dictionary, 19-12-03