Music trend review

August 30, 2007 on 7:08 am | In Shopping

Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
The term reggae is sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, although the word specifically indicates a particular music style that originated after the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank. The tempo is generally slower than that found in ska and rocksteady. Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, which influenced many prominent reggae musicians in the 1970s and 1980s. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues.
Retro is a term used to describe the culture of the past. Retro can be used to simply mean “old fashioned” or old, functioning much like “timeless” or “classic”. Most commonly, “retro” is used to describe objects and attitudes from the recent past that no longer seem modern.
Retro also can mean a type of music. It’s particularly dance music, popular in the U.S. during the 1980s and originally termed New Wave music which was in part an outgrowth of the Punk rock genre of the 1970s and early ’80s. Many of the songs and albums now termed Retro came about during great advancement in the development of generating music electronically (that is, with computers and electronic equipment - or Electronic music - rather than with either traditional or electromechanical instruments) and the popularization of this type of music in the mainstream. Ideas as to how broad and inclusive the Retro category of music is vary; nonetheless, not all music - not even all dance music - from the decade of the 1980s can be considered Retro.
Rock music has its roots in 1950s-era rock and roll and rockabilly. In the late 1960s, rock music was blended with folk music to create folk rock, blues to create blues rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion, and without a time signature to create psychedelic rock. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, hard rock, progressive rock, heavy metal and punk rock. Rock subgenres from the 1980s included glam metal, synth-rock, thrash metal, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge-style rock, britpop, indie rock, piano rock, and nu metal.
The influence of rock and roll is far-reaching, and has had significant impact worldwide on fashion, film styles, and attitudes towards sex and sexuality and use of drugs and alcohol. This impact is broad enough that “rock and roll” may also be considered a lifestyle in addition to a form of music. Its impact has arguably been extremely positive as well, the phenomenal worldwide popularity of many rockstars facilitating charity events such as Live Aid.