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We are students of 5th year from Maria Auxiliadora who worked in a project to know more about the most important and famous music genres of the world. Is a fact that we all love the music, because of this we chose this topic, since we love music and we also want to know the history of 5 music genres that we most like. In this project we have been trough many investigations to give the best information to this blog and to our classmates.


To start we would like to share with you our question that came up in the first class that we started with this topic. This question was: Wich are the most important bands and singers from the genres reggaeton, reggae, electronic, rock and punk-rock? Then we ask ourselves this same question to check how much we know about this topic.

At first we made a list including the most important singer in each genre in our opinion. This list had the names of: Daddy Yankee for Reggeaton, Red zepelin for Rock, David Guetta for Electronic Music, Bob Marley for reggae and finally, Ramones for Punk Rock.

Finally our objective in this project is to inform you about the history of different music genres and to know and aprecciate the most important bands and artists because some of them are composing in this times. We expect you to like this blog.

Conclusion

To sum up with this project, we need to go back to our question that was: which are the most important and influencial bands and singers from the genres reggaeton, reggae, electronic, rock, and punk-rock? The bands and singers that we thought that could be in the tops of each genre were right, except from David Guetta, who wasn't included in the most important DJs of electronic music. We have to say that we were really fascinated by doing this project because we have chosen a topic where we could show our knowledge about each music genre. We have reached our objective that was to inform you about the history and the bests artists of each genre. That's all we have to say, thanks for reading our blog and we hope you have enjoyed it.

Top 5 Most Influencial Rock Bands in History

We made a top 5 with the most influencial Rock bands in the history of this genre. This list was made from our point of view and from a compilation of distinct information extracted from different internet articles.

1st: AC/DC

AC/DC is an Australian hard rock band, formed in November 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, who continued as members until Malcolm's illness and departure in 2014.  AC/DC have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 71.5 million albums in the United States alone, making them the tenth-best-selling band in the United States and one of the world's best-selling bands of all time. Back in Black has sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making it the second-highest-selling album by any artist.

2nd: Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London founded in 1965. Distinguished by their use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, extended compositions and elaborate live shows, they are one of the most commercially successful and influential groups in the history of popular music. Their album “The other side of the Moon” (1973) is the third most selled album in history.

3rd: The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums)

The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list, and their estimated sales are above 200 million

4th: Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound, rooted in blues and psychedelia on their early albums, has earned them recognition as one of the progenitors of heavy metal.

5th: Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles formed in 1985. The classic lineup, as signed to Geffen Records in 1986, consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler.The band has released six studio albums, accumulating sales of more than 100 million records worldwide, making Guns N' Roses one of the world's best-selling bands of all time.

TOP FIVE REGGAE SINGERS

TOP FIVE REGGAE SINGERS

1st: Bob Marley

Bob Marley was a jamaican reggae singer, songwriter, musician and guitarist. Bob did more tan anyone else to popularize around the world. He could mix protest music, make songs of determination, rebellion and freedom.

2nd: Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff was a jamaican Ska and reggae musician, singer and actor. He starred in the film "The harder they come", which helped popularize reggae across the world.

3rd: Winston Rodney

Winston Rodney, better known by the name Burning Spear, is a jamaican reggae singer and  musician. He is a Rastafarian and one of the most influential artists to emerge from the 1970's.

4th: Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh was a jamaican singer and musician, renowned reggae artist and founding member of the band the Wailers, which gave reggae artist Bob Marley his start. Reggae fans and artists mourned Tosh's death, but celebrated his legacy. He is still known as the most controversial member of The Wailers, according to The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, which wrote that "he ruffled many a feather with his unapologetic stance on issues [such as] black liberation and the legalization of marijuana."

5th: Steel Pulse

Steel Pulse were one of Britain's greatest reggae bands, rivaled only by Aswad in terms of creative and commercial success. Generally a protest-minded Rastafarian outfit, Steel Pulse started out playing authentic roots reggae with touches of jazz and Latin music, and earned a substantial audience among white U.K. punks as well.

TOP 5 OF DJ´S ELECTRONIC MUSIC

                          

                         Top 5 DJ´s of Electronic Music:

Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike is the duo that dominate the ranking of DJ´s in 2015. They are from Belgium and are the the best Dj at the moment. They start producing electronic music in 2011, with the place 79 in the rank of DJmag.

Robbert van de Corput, as well as Hardwell, is the second best DJ´s in the 2015. He is from Netherland and it became really famous beacuse of his aparence in the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, and his song call: "Spaceman".

Martijn Garrigsen, as well as Martin Garrix, is from Netherland and with only one song called "Animals" in 2013 has been one of the most famous DJ´s in the world. Now he is 21 years old and he is the Third best DJ of 2015 in only two years. 

Armin Vann Buuren is from Netherland and is the best DJ of the history of electronic music. It was in the first place in the years 2007,2008,2009,2010 and 2012. Now he is 39 years old and is in the 4th place in the ranking Djmag.

Tijs Michiel Verwest, as well as Tiesto, has 47 years old and is from Netherland. He is working on electronic music since 1984 when this genre start to get up in the world. Now he is in the 5th place in the ranking of the DJmeg. 

Reggae

Reggae

First of all, Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960's. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most  types of popular jamaican dance music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that evolved out of the earlier genres like Ska and Rocksteady.

Furthermore, Reggae is a stiyle of music that needs a strong backbone and a strong driving force. The drums have to be in perfect time and the bass has to move the people. reggae drums and bass style were so popular that they influenced styles such as Rap and Hip Hop.

Rastafarianism is a religion that is very common among Jamaicans of African descent. Many of the world's most famous reggae musicians practice this religion, and therefore many reggae lyrics reflect the beliefs and traditions of Rastafarianism.

Early reggae music had lyrics consistent in theme with its predecessor, Rocksteady, with songs often focusing on topics such as love. As the genre found its feet in the 70s though, it evolved in line with the Rastafarian movement that was sweeping Jamaica at the time, and lyrics of Reggae songs quickly developed a more socio-political or religious bent.

 Many of the words used in reggae songs are incomprehensible to US and UK English speakers, as they are taken from traditional Jamaican patois or refer to Rastafarian concepts – for example Jah, meaning God. There is heavy use of Jamaican slang, a common example being Ganja, meaning marijuana. Cannabis is smoked as sacrament in the Rastafarian faith, as Rastafarians believe that smoking marijuana allows them to experience a closeness to God. This message in the songs has been open to much misinterpretation, particularly by American youth who have used this as an excuse to “get high.”

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 and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s' and 1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music.

Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse.

By the late 1960s, referred to as the "golden age" or "classic rock" period, a number of distinct rock music subgenres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, punk rock, and jazz-rock.

Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the hippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures. Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity.

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

                                     Electronic Music

To start with, an other kind of genre of music is Electronic. This genre employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in it production. The diference between this kind of production is that de first one, the music is produce by instruments like electric guitar, bass or drums. On the other hand, the second kind of producing music is by computer programs, theremin and sound synthesizer.

Electronic music become very popular in recent years. However, electronic music has been started to produce in the 1950s, but now in the recent years, between the 2000s and 2010s, it become very popular because of the biggest festivals in the world like Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival and Creamfield. The first one, took place in Belgium in 2005 with 10.000 tickets sold. Now, in 2015, it have been sold 220.000 tickets for that year. Whereas, electronic music became like the teenagers and young music, with more accessible the music software, everybody can make electronic music with your computer. In the next videos, you can see how can you produce electronic music step by step and see Tomorrowland in 2013:

Tomorrowland 2013:

How can we produce electronic music:

This tipe of genre has a lot of people producing electronic music, but there are some DJ´s that are the most famous in the world. This are for example: Martin Garrix, Axwell, Hardwell, Armin Vann Buuren, Tiesto, Kygo, OneRepublic, Alesso, Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Sam Feldt, San Holo, Don Diablo, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, Tobu, R3hab, Avicii, Galantis, Steve Angello and Nicky Romero.

As you see, this is a big list of the best DJ´s in the world. Every year, the academy of electronic music make a ranking of the best 100 DJ´s of each year. This rank start in July, at the end of the best electronic music festival of the world: Tomorrowland. 

In 2015, the last rank concidered to Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike for the best DJ´s of the year. Second to Hardwell, Third to Martin Garrix with only 21 years, Fourth to Armin Vann Buren, that has de first place in past years. And the Fifth to Tiesto.  

  In this picture you can see the rank of the best 100 DJ´s of 2015:

Top 5 Punk Rock Bands

We made a top 5 of the most representative bands of punk history, according to the magazine Rolling Stone, the web magazine Punk-hxc.com and two online surveys.

1st: The Ramones 

Creators of the first wave of punk in the United States; were the standard-bearers of the genre

in his country which has earned them to be, until today, a cult band. Formed in 1974 with Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone and Tommy Ramone, 

they highlighted by its minimalist style. 

2nd: Sex Pistols 

This British band formed in 1975 with Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Sid Vicious

is considered the pioneer of the punk genre in the United Kingdom, creator of his own musical style and a way of life. 

3rd: The Clash

They are considered among the pioneers of British punk. They emerged in the increasingly distant year 1976 with  Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Keith Levene and Terry Chimes. His great compositions, the variety of their music and committed letters,

quickly differed from other punk bands.

4th: Black Flag 

This band formed in 1976 with Greg Ginn, Keith Morris, Brian Migdol and Chuck Dukowski, is considered the pioneered of the hard-core punk. Was part of the first wave punk West Coast of the United States 

in the late 70s Like most groups, was influenced by Ramones, but quickly found their own sound, 

which made them one of the most respected groups movement.

5th: The Misfits 

This unique band was formed in the vicissitudes of 1977 with Glenn Danzig , Jerry Only, Manny Martínez and Jimmy Battle. It is one of the most important groups of the punk movement; 

without neglecting that are the maximum architects of creating a new subgenre within the punk, the horror punk.