Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. Radical nights for better days ahead. The future of culture knows no genre. These ...

Country, rap, and pop are the big three music genres of the 21st century. Frankly, and in regard to commercial success, the genres have monopolized the industry to a massive fault. Though that can of ...

Music history is full of interesting phenomena, including many music genres that exploded into popularity, only to die out a ...

The 1970s were an important era in the evolution of modern-day music. But there was one particular “genre” of music from that time period that inevitably influenced how music sounds today. And I’ll ...

When it comes to certain genres of music, some names are pretty self-explanatory: you can picture what"drum and bass" and "Cajun" might sound like pretty easily (and even if you're off, you're ...