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2020s in music
- Jerk (music genre)New York City became the birthplace of Jerk in 2021. Rapper Xaviersobased formed a group called 1c34 that same year. This collective reimagined an older…
- HexDIn 2011, Untranced released a mixtape titled Deleted Seniors. This project featured EDM music mixed with heavy bitcrushing.
- Rage (music genre)The word rage first appeared in hip-hop through Kid Cudi's Mr. Rager alter ego during the 2010s. Travis Scott later adopted this term and made it a core part…
- DigicoreThe word digicore first appeared in the 2000s as a shorthand for digital hardcore, a distinct electronic music style from that era.
- DiscoDisco arrived in America from a French word for a library of phonograph records, yet by the late 1970s it had become the dominant sound pulsing through clubs…
- Jerkin'Jerkin' is a street dance culture and hip hop subgenre that rose from urban California in the late 2000s. The music sounded new.
- Gangsta rapGangsta rap began its life under a different name: reality rap. That original label tells you something honest about what the genre's founders believed they…
- VaporwaveIn August 2010, a cassette tape titled Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 appeared on the internet under the name Daniel Lopatin.
- Contemporary R&BContemporary R&B has roots in the African-American musical communities of the 1970s, and it has never stopped moving. It began as a fusion of rhythm and…
- HyperpopIn 2013, A. G. Cook launched the record label and art collective known as PC Music in London. This small group of artists laid the groundwork for what would…
- Country musicCountry music got its name in an unlikely way. For decades, the genre was called hillbilly music, and only in the 1940s did the term "country music" catch on.
- J-popJ-pop, the abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music", entered the mainstream of Japan in the 1990s, but the story behind it stretches back more than a…