MUSIC - AN OVERVIEW

As earth cultures have come into larger world-wide contact, their indigenous musical kinds have generally merged with other styles, which creates new variations. For instance, America bluegrass type incorporates features from Anglo-Irish, Scottish, Irish, German and African instrumental and vocal traditions, which ended up able to fuse in America'

Genres of music are decided as much by custom and presentation as by the particular music. Some is effective, like George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, are claimed by both of those jazz and classical music, though Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and Leonard Bernstein's West Aspect Story are claimed by the two opera as well as the Broadway musical custom.