From dronescape to harsh noise wall, video creator Jacob Beardsley is on a quest to listen to every music genre out there. JACOB BEARDSLEY: I don't want to be genre ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

From street-corner harmonies to electronic drops, American music has seen waves of genres that dominated the airwaves, clubs, and cultural imagination, only to fade as quickly as they arrived. Some ...

Beyoncé appeared visibly astonished to hear her album Cowboy Carter had won best country album at this year’s Grammy Awards. Onstage, the singer offered a heartfelt reflection on musical genre: I ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...

JACOB BEARDSLEY: I don't want to be genre-phobic. That's why I'm listening to every single music genre. Today's genre is... MARTÍNEZ: That's right. Beardsley is trying to listen to every single music ...