Genre Research

After choosing my influential music videos I decided to analyse different musical genres. Firstly I decided to look at the genre known as Indie, I am a big fan of this music and find its history interesting.—

Also known as independent music can be broken down into many sub-genres. College Pop bands from the United States were very popular the leader of this genre being R.E.M.

Indie pop then evolved from this creating techno sounds with bands like New Order.

The turn of the 1990’s saw Britpop bands such as Blur and Oasis break into the mainstream audience.

In the present day Indie bands from the UK and US have ever increasing popularity such as the White Stripes from Detroit and UK based bands like Razorlight, The Kooks and The Arctic Monkeys.

JT