List of Blues Genres - Blues-like Genres

Blues-like Genres

There are several genres that are typically urban in origin, simple in instrumentation and featuring plaintive, melancholy vocals that emphasize the singer's poor luck and unfortunate circumstances. Anthropologist Joaquim Reis de Brito described the phenomenon this way:

Thus, if we take together the Fado of Lisbon, the Tango of Buenos-Aires and the Rembetika of Athens, we will note firstly that all of them emerged a little before or after the middle of the 19th century in poor districts of the big port cities of the nascent industry, attracting people from the country or from abroad, and who were confined to a marginal existence. And if we look for other parallels in the development of these urban popular cultures, we will find them again: first, their obscure and repressed beginnings, then their discovery and appropriation by elements of the higher social classes, later their acceptance and admission by the establishment (often after their success outside of the native land) before ending as a subject of tourist exploring the caves".

Note that not all of the characteristics above are common to all the genres compared to blues, and not all are true of the blues itself.

  • Bikutsi - Cameroonian music
  • Bolel - Ethiopian music
  • Bomba - Puerto Rican music
  • Bozlak - Turkish music
  • Calypso - Trinidadian music
  • Country - American music
  • Cumbia - Colombian music
  • Doina - Romanian music
  • Fado - Portuguese music
  • Flamenco - Spanish music
  • Kroncong - Indonesian music
  • Llanto - Panamanian music
  • Luk thung - Thai music
  • Maloya - Réunionese music
  • Mariachi - Mexican music
  • Merengue - Dominican music
  • Morna - Cape Verdean music
  • Pasillo - Ecuadorian music
  • Rembetika - Greek music
  • Rai - Algerian music
  • Reggae - Jamaican music
  • Rumba - Cuban music
  • Samba - Brazilian music
  • Schrammelmusik - Austrian music
  • Sevdalinka - Bosnian music
  • Sha'abi - Egyptian music
  • Sawt - Kuwaiti and Bahraini music
  • Tambú - Curaçao music
  • Tango - Argentinian music
  • Zilin - Beninese music
  • Zydeco - Cajun music
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