genre exploration part two

“Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

How about these genres? Know them? Listen to them? If not, check them out.

Mambo
Marching Bands
Maskanda – Zulu Traditional Music
Nederpop – Netherlands Pop Music
New Wave
Olonkho – Yakut Epic Songs
Opera
Outlaw Country
Pansori – Korean Folk Music
Parody
Peyote Song
Polka
Quan Ho – Vietnamese Vocal Music
Qawwali – Sufi Religious Music
Ragtime
Rake & Scrape
Ranchera
Reggaeton
Rockabilly
Samba
Sawt – Kuwait Urban Music
Shalako – Armenian Folk Dance
Ska
Speed Metal
Tango
Tanchaz – Hungarian Dance Music
Tarantella
Trip-Hop
Tuvan Throat Singing
Vaudeville
Villanella – 16th Century Neapolitan Songs
Waltz
Waila – Chicken Scratch
Work Songs
Yodeling
Zapin – Malaysian Pop
Zouk Funk
Zydeco

TODAY’S CREATIVITY CHALLENGE:

Find one song per genre listed above and listen to it. If you like it, buy it, download it, save it, whatever. If you have a strong reaction AGAINST a certain sound, pay attention to that too. What about it pushes you away?

How do these new songs relate to your current work? Can you incorporate them? Work against them? Use them to further a character, a plot point, a painting, your research?