Music Genres and introduction of new task

Introduction - Now I have finished the sixth form stage and now have gone on to a new topic which is to create a music magazine front cover, double page spread and a contents page. I have learnt the skills needed for this by the practise on sixth form magazines.

There are two types of music genres, these are;

Mainstream music - The most common music, seen as normal to listen to and is heard on radios and television.

Indie music - Not produced by big record labels and is more for people do to themselves.

Some examples of genres and the stereotyped audience of that particular genre

• Grime - Teens/early twenties, chavs, tracksuits, black ethnicity, male, lower class. In the indie music genre but some bigger grime artists have gone into mainstream.

• House - White male and females, teens/early twenties, curly hair, Adidas and Ellesse branded clothing, go to parties a lot. In the indie music genre.

• Reggae - Have dreadlocks, are Rasta, smoke weed, spiritual, black ethnicity, male and female. In the indie music genre.

• Pop - 12-20, female, mainstream people, white ethnicity. In the mainstream music genre.

• Classic - 50+, male and female, dress smart, posh, upper class. In the mainstream music genre.

• Country - 30-50, middle aged, female and male, american, middle class. In the mainstream music genre

Sub genres are smaller genres that are attached to the larger main genres, for example a big genre like country has smaller sub genres like Cajun and Bush band. 

The main record labels are Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. These are all based in the US and they cover up roughly 80% of the music market.