Music

Virtually every community in the world has some tradition of music.

Some musical traditions are on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list, but many that do not make that list are also important or interesting, at least to some people.

Styles of music

There are arguments about how to categorize music, but there are some commonly accepted genres:

• Folk music is created and survives through local tradition. There is also an "urban folk" style, fusing folk, popular and other types of music, which was developed starting around the 1960s in various places, including the United States and Latin American countries.
• European classical music|Classical music has been written down in Europe since no earlier than the 9th century CE, though it had already existed for some time before that. It is roughly divided by period, between the Middle Ages (5th-early 15th century), Renaissance (early 15th-early 17th century), Baroque (late 16th-mid 18th century) and the Classical period (early 18th-early 19th centuries), Romantic (19th and early 20th centuries) and contemporary (20th and 21st centuries). Western classical music spread to other continents through colonization and immigration from Europe and cultural exchange, and now exists throughout the world, though it is not uniformly distributed.

Didgeridoo (Imagicity 1070) - Indigenous People Australian didgeridoo player

• Non-European classical music, or more properly musics (i.e., various different traditions) including those of the Arab world (Middle East and North Africa) and Türkiye, Iran, Central Asia (e.g., Bukhara) and the South Asia|Indian Subcontinent (with distinct though related Hindustani [Northern Indian, including Pakistan andBangladesh and Carnatic [Southern India|Southern Indian] traditions), Myanmar, Indonesia (with Central Javanese and Balinese styles particularly famous), Malaysia (epitomised by dikir barat, a type of group singing), Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China, Japan and Korea. Some of these have used their own forms of notation.
• Popular music is made for a mainstream, contemporary audience, including genres such as rock and roll.
• World music combines different musical traditions.
• Blues is a type of African-American music that originated in the South (United States of America) | Deep South in the 19th century, and would eventually give rise to more modern forms of African-American music such as ragtime, jazz, rhythm and blues, and eventually rock and roll.
• Jazz is a type of music that originally arose among African-Americans and Creoles in New Orleans in the early 20th century and has since gone through several style changes and become international. Almost every jazz performance includes improvisation or embellishment, with live musicians creating their own impromptu melodies, usually based upon the chord changes of a preexisting melody (with the exception of free jazz). There are so many different styles of jazz that they are almost imfeasible to list; however and the main jazz subgenres are traditional jazz (starting in the early 1900s), big band and swing (1930s and 1940s), bebop (1940s and 1950s on the East Coast but a few years later on the West Coast), soul jazz (late 1950s and early to mid 1960s), and free jazz (1960s to 1980s).
• Electronic dance music is music that is made with synthesizers and drum machines and played at late night restaurants, raves and electronic music festivals in many countries in the world. It includes a lot of different subgenres such as for example techno, house, electro or psytrance.
• Musicals exist at the intersection of theater and music. While musicals can (and have been) written and performed in all styles of music (as long as there is room for text to be transported in any way) and there is a certain style that at least some songs in the vast majority of musicals adhere to. While musicals are a huge phenomenon in Great Britain and the United States and they are much less of a factor outside the Anglosphere and often unjustly viewed as "less high brow" than theater or opera in continental Europe and thus usually do not benefit from state sponsoring while Opera and Theater do.

There are also music genres for defined purposes: military tourism|military music, Film and TV series tourism|film music, religion and spirituality|religious music, travelling with children|children's music, etc.

Itineraries

• The Jazz Track — travel from Boston to New Orleans through cities with important jazz histories
• Music festival circuit — music festivals of all genres are an important reason for travel
• Music in Britain and Ireland — in particular the last half a century or so and the British isles have been one of the world's music epicentres
• Nordic music — five countries with a great scene for folk, classical and popular music
• Salsa dancing in Latin America — salsa dancing is popular around Latin America

Museums

HOF-Guitars - Guitars outside the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland]

Many museums of history, culture or archeology around the world include some exhibits of musical instruments or artifacts such as manuscripts.

There are also museums or halls of fame for particular genres or countries:

• Nashville has both the Country Music Hall of Fame and a more general Musicians' Hall of Fame]
• Cleveland has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]
• America's Pop Music Hall of Fame]
• Calgary has the Canadian Music Hall of Fame]
• Stockholm has the Swedish Music Hall of Fame with the ABBA Museum at Stockholm/Djurgården|Djurgården

Elvis Presley's mansion Graceland is in Memphis, and now operates as a museum.

See also

• Nightlife