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Music Genre.
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a set of conventions, ideas and traditions such as; ‘‘pop’’, ‘‘rock’’, ‘‘rap’’, ‘’indie’’. Each of these genres has their individual trends, which evolve over time. Each genre is distinguished from musical form and musical style; however, in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
The genre of a song is a key concept as it is necessary to establish this in order to help you when producing a music video. In this project I need to pick a song belonging to a particular genre of music and then I will go on to produce the music video for my chosen song, according to the genres specific conventions.
Sub-Genre.
Many of the music genres can be broken down further, which identifies more specific conventions of that particular genre, going into further detail.