{"id":7026,"date":"2016-07-07T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:25:04","slug":"how-music-genres-got-their-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/how-music-genres-got-their-names\/","title":{"rendered":"How Music Genres Got Their Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/shutterstock_306171572.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_306171572\" width=\"475\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/shutterstock_306171572.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/shutterstock_306171572-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By now, everyone should be pretty familiar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/best-rap-songs-1989-2001\/\">history of hip hop<\/a>. Stories of how block parties in the 1970s in the Bronx gave rise to DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Sugarhill Gang, and lots of others.<\/p>\n<p>But what about other kinds of dance music genres, like house, techno and dubstep?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose you could say that knowing the history of the music you spin isn&#8217;t really necessary. True. But, it&#8217;s a fun bit of knowledge that also might have some hidden benefits. Knowing where a particular genre evolved from can help you mix songs from all the relevant genres.<\/p>\n<p>What about genres like Braindance, Chiptune or Eskibeat? Know where those emerged from?\u00a0<em>MixMag\u00a0<\/em>did a little digging and found out some fun facts on each.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmag.net\/feature\/how-your-favourite-genre-got-its-name\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">By now, everyone should be pretty familiar with the history of hip hop. Stories of how block parties in the 1970s in the Bronx gave rise to DJ Kool Herc,&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3418,2888,7,4014,3219,2203],"tags":[1367,916,212,4217,682,915],"views":1140,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7028,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions\/7028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}