Music is something which brings together different kinds of people from all over the world. It doesn’t matter where you are or who you are, music has the power to bring down these walls and contributes in creating what can be aptly called a “melting pot” of cultures. It’s something that complete strangers become friends over and friends spend time discussing. The kind of music you listen to also becomes a part of your identity and the many sub cultures too have associated themselves with music as they often do with literature as well. But music too has undergone a huge transformation through the ages. It’s now possible for people to know about different cultures through the kind of music these cultures produce. It also has created a lot of questions over labels and independent music has now come into its own, courtesy of the internet and the other communication channels which make it possible for someone in one continent to listen to music being produced off the mainstream in another. In such an environment it’s really hard to pick the genres which have struck a chord with the contemporary generation but here’s a list of Top 10 genres that might give you an idea as to what people are listening to these days.

10.Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century. Its roots lie in the adoption by Africa-Americans of European harmony and form, taking on those European elements and combinging them into their existing African-based music. Its African musical basiis is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythm, syncopation and the swung note

9.Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the “Deep South” of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

8.Latin

This category includes music from Latin America and other Caribbean countries, and shares the cultural elements of Africa, native America and Europe.  The percussion instruments included in this type of genre music are Clave, maracas, cowbells, congas, bongos, timbales, tambora, bombo, guiro, cajones, cascara, shekere, tres, marimbula. Latin music is influenced from the Spanish, who introduced the string instruments. It is vocal as well as instrumental music, which earlier was played for religious purposes, but now is considered as dance music. With strong beats, it is naturally syncopated dance music and is highly rhythmic.

Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Selena, Belinda are some of the highlighted Latin artists.

7.Emd

Electronic Dance Music also known as club music is centered on dancing and club settings. It all started with the advent of the disco or the popcorn as it was known back then. This brought in many forms of synthetic electrical instruments and the purpose of producing music for orchestration in a club shifted to producing music with the intent of it being played by the DJs though drums etc. Eventually the DJs started experimenting with songs of other artists and extending these songs into Dance remixes. The emergence of popular festivals around the EDM genre too led its popular appeal amongst the masses.

6.Sufi

sufi music is the devotional music of Sufis, inspired by the works of sufi poets, like Rumi Hafiz, Bulleh Shah and Khawaja Ghulam Farid. Qawwali is the most well known form of sufi music and is mostly common in parts of Paskistan an India.Sufi love song are often performed as Ghazals and Kafi, a solo genre accompai\nied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of song by sufi poets.

5.Country

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the rural regions of the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the south-eastern of American folk music and Western music.Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instrument such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles, and harmonicas.

4.Hip-hop

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music, or hip-hop music is a music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

3.Pop

Pop music (a term that originally derives form an abbreviation of “popular”) is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving form rock and roll. The terms popular musics and pop musics are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of musics which is popular. It borrows elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, latin and country.

2.Heavy Metal

Heavy metal is a genre of rock musics that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, originally in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. The bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are often associated with aggression.

1.Rock

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as “Rock and Roll” in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s’ and 1950s’ rock and roll. itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Musically, rock has centred around the electric guitar, usually as part of rock group with bass guitar and drums.

Top 10 Most Powerful Womens of 2015

1. Angela Merkel

The most influential female politician in the world, Merkel earned a doctorate in physics in East Germany before turning her eye to politics. She won a seat in the Bundestag during the first post-reunification general election, in December 1990, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl appointed her as a Cabinet minister just one year later. Childless and twice married, the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union often comes off as reserved and self-effacing. But as she told TIME in a 2010 interview, she has plenty of confidence: “You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.”

2.Hillary Clinton

3.Melinda Gates

4.Janet Yellen

5. Mary Barra

6. Christine Lagarde

7. Dilma Rousseff

8. Sheryl Sandberg

9.Susan Wojcicki

10.Michelle Obama

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