History of music in Britain and America

Blues is a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the "Deep South"
of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
The genre developed from a fusion of traditional African music and European folk music, that incorporated spirituals, work
songs, field hollers,
shouts and chants,
and rhymed simple
narrative ballads.
Blues

Buddy Guy

Buddy Guy started playing guitar at age 13. In the early 1950s he moved to Baton Rouge, where he performed with local bands. In 1957, Guy moved to Chicago, where, under his wing took his famous musician Muddy Waters.

Muddy Waters

Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the southeastern
genre of American folk music and Western music.
Country Music

There were five waves of popularity of country music in the US:
1) 1920s;
2) 1930 – 1940s;
3) 1950 – 1960s;
4) 1970 – 1980s;
5) 2000s – present days.

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was born in February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. Johnny Cash developed his own individual style of greeting the audience at concerts.

Jazz is a genre of music that originated in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. Its composition and style have changed many times throughout the years with each performer's personal interpretation and improvisation, which is also one of the greatest appeals of the genre.
Jazz

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential and important musicians in jazz history.

The term "pop song" was first recorded as being used in 1926, in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal".
Pop music

ABBA

ABBA were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972. With members Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, ABBA became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1975 to 1982.

Michael
Jackson

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.
Rock music

Queen

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970. The classic line-up was Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), and John Deacon (bass guitar).

Led
Zeppelin

The
Who

Pink
Floyd

Deep
Purple

Hip hop or hip-hop is a cultural movement that formed during the early 1970s among African American and Latino youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City.
Hip Hop

The
Sugarhill
Gang

The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.