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To me, contemporary music seems like it could be a very broad category. When I think of some contemporary songs I think of songs that I hear on the radio that are arranged to have harmony and more voices with a few solos.

These are some of my favorite genres of contemporary music that is not already on the list :)

1. Acoustical Music- During the Middle Ages, guitars with three, four, and five strings co-existed. The //Guitarra Latina// had curved sides and is thought to have come to Spain from elsewhere in Europe. The //Guitarra Morisca//, brought to Spain by the Moors, had an oval soundbox and many sound holes on its soundboard. By the fifteenth century, four double-string guitars, similar to lutes, became popular, and by the sixteenth century, a fifth double-string had been added.

Third-Eye-Blind- Jumper media type="youtube" key="1P3MegpkaMI" height="315" width="560" 2. Folk-   folk music has been the music of the working class. It is community-focused and has rarely enjoyed commercial success. By definition, it is something anyone can understand and in which everyone is welcome to participate. Folk songs range in subject matter from __ [|war] __, __ [|work] __, __ [|civil rights] __, and economic hardship to nonsense, satire and, of course, love songs.

media type="youtube" key="x2RKb3VNAOo" height="315" width="420" 3. Country-pop- is a popular [|American musical] style that began in the rural [|Southern United States] in the 1920s. [|[1]] It takes its roots from [|Western cowboy] and [|folk] music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as [|banjoes], [|electric] and [|acoustic guitars] , [|fiddles] such as [|violins] , and [|harmonicas].

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4. Electronica/ Hip-hop-

Electronic music was once associated almost exclusively with Western [|art music] but from the late 1960s on the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domain. [|[3]] Today electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as [|electronic dance music].

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