folk guitar to rhythm and blues thus creating rock and roll. Instead of transforming into rock and roll, rhythm and blues transformed into soul music.Many people confuse rhythm and blues with soul music. Soul music has a beat that is traditionally easier to dance to, and the lyrics are usually happier and more optimistic. In other words, soul still has the rhythm, they just removed the blues. In the early 1970s a new genre of music began to emerge from the soul music genre. The new genre was a combination of soul music, and poetry and the oral tradition of the African base communities. Rap music initially involve using rhythms of soul music combined with poetic rhyming and chanting of the lyrics. Rap is considered to be the punk rock movement of the African-American community. Rap music quickly evolved into many different genres of music including, gangster rap, west coast, east coast, and hip hop.The hip hop genre of rap is primarily for dancing. Hip hop carries a fast and 4heavy beat, that is created primarily electronically produced beats. The lyrics are commonly quite sexual, and the beats have thumping bass with electronic horns, and scratching records. The hip hop music genre is the music genre that is primarily played on the 107.9 The End. Given the generic descriptions of the two radio station should assist us in answering the research question of By listening to the beat, and analyzing the lyrics of the song The Bad Touch, can the song be placed into a particular musical genre? Lets start by analyzing the beat.The description of the rock and roll genre specifically stated that the basis of rock music was the guitar, and more specifically the electric guitar. In listening to the song The Bad Touch, the sound of a guitar is not detectable. For the most part the beat sounds very electric and synthesized. The beat is very heavy in the sound, and the sound of electric horns is very prevalent. Since the beat of a son...
