Contemporary Rhythm and Blues

Rhythm and Blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as contemporary R&B.

Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines

• Hip Hop
• Soul
• R&B  
• Funk

Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditionalrhythm and blues music, today the term

R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating. Some sources

refer to the style as urban contemporary.

Indian Music

I bet when you think of indian music you can picture an indian lady running around a field or a tree, singing and dancing with her love helplessly running after her. YEP ! thats pretty much indian music for you !

  

 Indian music can range from:

• Folk           
• Tribal/Folk
• Bhajans or Devotional
• Ghazels or Qawwalis
• Bhangra
• Film songs
• Rajasthan
• Indi-pop
• Remix songs
• Fusion/Dance

                                                                               
 Indian music can be viewed as an expression of culture and also religion- it is said to be one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world ! It can be traced back through its orgins in the Vedas which is a sacred acient hindu text- and im telling you now- thats pretty old!

Symphonic Metal

Front cover of Dark Passion Play by symphonic metal band Nightwish

What is Symphonic Metal?

According to Wikipedia, it is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements (classical music material, operatic lead vocals, participation of acoustic guitars, various kinds of keyboards or an orchestra rather than just electric guitars, etc.)

Storyboard

This blog will be about music from all around the world. It will include blog posts about various different genres of music that many people may not have heard about before. This blog will explore the the intricacies of the music composition of different muysical tunes.

Our furture blog will look like this:

Aim: This blog should inform people of more diverse and different kinds of music. The blog would allow people to appreciate the unique sounds made by different instruments, styles and genre from all around the world. The blog should also be able to inform people about the latest music and videos from artists all over the world. Related sites will also be shown to inform readers about other sites for more information or functions.

[Link to our report on Wikispaces] 

Hong Kong Music (Cantopop)

In 1960, Hong Kong English pop had peaked until the mid-1970s. After the Chinese language had become an official language in 1974, Cantopop's popularity increased dramatically due to the improved status of the language and the large Cantonese Chinese population in the city.

Eason Chan is a prominent male singer in Hong Kong's music industry. There is no doubt that he is one of the most dominant male singers in the post-1997 era of Hong Kong music industry. 

• Praised by Time magazine as a front runner in the next generation of Cantopop
• Considered by some to be Hong Kong's third "god of song"
• Album "U87" was nominated by Time Magazine as "Five Asian Albums Worth Buying" in 2005

In 2010, Eason Chan comes to Melbourne and Sydney for his Duo concert series.

In his earlier years, the artist trained to be an architect, but gave this career path away after being signed to record label 'Capital Artists'. He has written at least 29 songs of note. Eason Chan is the second non-Taiwanese singer to win Taiwan's Golden Melody Award. 

A new style music video which is sand drawing :)!!



References:

• Trea, W. (2003). Old Hong Kong. Asia books Ltd
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eason_Chan