In my opinion, the most popular trend in modern music is rock. The magic word is not dead ioday. In general, this is a common name for different trends of music. It began in 50th of the last century. This music differs with rhythmic and form of movement. The most distinctive features are perhaps as follows: 1) the usage of electro musical instruments; 2) the performance of musical work of own ones; 3) individual style of costumes while performing the musical art.
Today rock has many trends, namely: dancing rock and roll, grindcore as an extreme style - a mixture of hardcore punk and trash metal. The essence of songs consists of special light and careless. It resembles pop music in this case: very often rock and pop music don't have distinctive boarders. Such music is played by the band of musicians. The band usually consists of solo - vocal, guitar, bass-guitar, drummer and keyboard player. In our days it is important to use such an instrument as a flute like it was in the ancient world.
Another important and popular trend is pop music>. This name is suitable for vaudeville music. Such music has entertained character without any sense and deep feelings. It is an international trend today and it reflects the entire culture of our world. Many contests are held to find the best performer of pop-music. It looks like it was in the ancient world but nowadays pop-charts are formed to measure the most popular composition.
It is worth talking about such musical school like rhythm and blues or R&B, or R'n'B. This music is performed by Afro-American musicians and consists of blues, jazz and gospel. This name came back to 50th of the last century in the USA and then spread through the world very successfully. Blues is the main term of this music. The branches of this trend are neo soul and hip-hop soul styles and besides it includes classic elements. It is a magic word in our days.
Blues is a very essential trend in music. From the very beginning it was called as a lyric song and then got the world popularity. A bit later blues combined with folklore music and other styles forming different kinds and trends. The most known in the world is the Chicago school "West Side Sound," and later it was set in the British school. The modern blues is a very complex and diverse; it includes various styles and trends, which had passed a long evolution.
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