What music genre originated from your region?

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cathedralproject@reddit

I'm from Southern California originally so I guess, Surf Rock, Laurel Canyon Folk, and Gangsta Rap. I'll add more if it comes to me. A lot of music came out of the LA area.

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Zardozin@reddit

Technically?

Just say they did, because it is true

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InterPunct@reddit

No question that punk and rap started in NYC.

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HemanHeboy@reddit

I would give the UK credit for the fashion

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Busy-Presentation647@reddit

Hard rock, metal core, ska punk, and Celtic punk which kinda surprising from what I’ve seen growing up in Massachusetts my entire life

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TheCloudForest@reddit

House music. Gospel music. Electric blues.

Chicago.

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Agile_Property9943@reddit

Gospel music wasn’t created in Chicago

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Jetamors@reddit

Some people consider Thomas Dorsey to have created it as a musical genre, though I think opinions can reasonably vary.

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Agile_Property9943@reddit

Yeah I’m going to have to respectfully disagree

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Trance_Plantz@reddit

I’m going to have to respectfully agree with you

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tnick771@reddit

Drill has been influential on modern Hip Hop, although that’s a sub genre of Hip Hop.

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WhatIsMyPasswordFam@reddit

I spose it's a bit like calling metal a genre.

Like, yeah, it's a style, but it doesn't really convey anything.

But, like, hip hop isn't really a style of music, it's a whole thing outside of music.

Idk

Y'all want it to be one and most people'd call it one so it is I spose

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natigin@reddit

Huh, so what would you consider a genre?

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natigin@reddit

Honestly it’s staggering when you think that those are pretty much the genesis points for modern EDM, R&B and Rock and Roll, respectively

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concrete_isnt_cement@reddit

Not the sole origin, but we played a big part in the rise of Garage Rock too

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0wlBear916@reddit

That’s not fair. Washington isn’t the only state with garages.

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GarthVader45@reddit

Riot Grrrl also originated from the Olympia/Seattle underground scene at around the same time.

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potentalstupidanswer@reddit

And earlier than most people realize. Tina Bell's band Bam Bam was making music that was unambiguously in the genre by 1983, 8 years before Nevermind came out.

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Low-Cat4360@reddit

The Blues, which later diverged into other genres like Dick

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According-Bug8150@reddit

The Athens college scene, I guess. REM, the B-52s, and the like.

I'm not familiar enough with the history of rap and hip hop to know what originated in Atlanta.

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Low-Cat4360@reddit

Georgia has the music of the Gullah Geechee people, along with the other Gullah states. I'm not sure there a name their genre of music, as I couldn't find one online or asking AI

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Atlanta is kind of credited as the birthplace of southern rap, which is hard to distinguish as a style as much as a gathering place for rappers in the south. We do also have some credit for R&B, but idk if it's so much the birthplace.

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HughLouisDewey@reddit

Atlanta rap kind of evolved out of the Miami bass sound, with a lot of New York east coast influence. Different enough to be its own unique sound.

A big leap was Lil Jon and the more club-oriented, crunk sound of the early 2000s.

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BlindPelican@reddit

Jazz, Funk, Zydeco and some genres of Blues - New Orleans/Southern Louisiana

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dhoshima@reddit

Bounce too

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BlindPelican@reddit

Ha! Good addition. I was going to edit to add that but it slipped my mind. Just saw Big Freedia not too long ago too!

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Low-Cat4360@reddit

Just saw Big Freedia not too long ago too!

The one just a few months ago during the French Quarter Festival? I was there with you!

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Agile_Property9943@reddit

Along with New York and Chicago and Missouri there was Big Band.

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jerry_03@reddit

Jawaiian

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duke_awapuhi@reddit

Hyphy

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AcadianADV@reddit

Jazz, Zydeco, Cajun music, and swamp pop.

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doubtinggull@reddit

I don't know if they originated here exactly, but DC is known for its Go Go and Hardcore

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

DC was definitely big in early hardcore but I honestly do not know exactly where I would pin its origin. It just kind of spontaneously shot up out of punk.

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DoinIt989@reddit

DC, LA, Boston, and NYC to a lesser extent were all very important cities for "hardcore".

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

Yeah, lots of bands kind of sprung up in a short period of time in a lot of places

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doubtinggull@reddit

Yeah, I don't know if it's even possible to pin down a location, I just know it wouldn't have had the same trajectory without Bad Brains.

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fl00km@reddit

Wasn’t Bad Brains banned in DC?

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

And Minor Threat

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Trance_Plantz@reddit

Go Go babyyyyy 🙌

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

Oklahoma Swing, Roadhouse Honkytonk, Hillbilly Folk (Guthrie), and whatever The Flaming Lips are.

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iteachag5@reddit

Bluegrass

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PoolSnark@reddit

Just the blues, jazz, and rock ‘n roll.

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HopelessNegativism@reddit

Hip hop

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Trance_Plantz@reddit

This is a sleeper pick (and a lot of people probably aren’t familiar with it at all), but I would say Tucson, AZ is the home of a musical style that I would call “Desert Noir”, which is like an eclectic but coherent hybrid of rock, alt-country, cumbia, mariachi, tejano, and jazz. Some of the flagship artists are Calexico, Giant Sand, Howe Gelb, Friends of Dean Martinez, Orkestra Mendoza, and XIXA

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redmeansdistortion@reddit

Techno

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DoinIt989@reddit

Don't forget Horrorcore rap. Down with Clown for life yo.

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sics2014@reddit

I don't think any. Someone can educate me.

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DoinIt989@reddit

Boston was extremely influential for early Hardcore punk, even if you can't necessarily say it was "invented" there.

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No_Name_Necessary@reddit

So I took a history of American music course, which I thought was gonna be awesome. It was a little more historical than I realized though. Anyhoo, the very first thing that we learned about was The Bay Psalter which I believe we the first book, and thusly the first music printed and originating in the US. Sexy, no. But original.

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DrWhoisOverRated@reddit

The sub-genre Metalcore was originated in Massachusetts. Other bands had been doing that sound before, but Converge's Jane Doe and Cave In's Until Your Heart Stops really defined the sound and laid the blueprint for dozens of other bands. A few years later, bands like Unearth, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, and All That Remains all came out of Massachusetts.

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Maxpowr9@reddit

And if you want to go back to the 19th Century, American classical music.

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DoinIt989@reddit

Techno

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whiskeyworshiper@reddit

Philly Soul

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Traditional_Trust_93@reddit

According to Google: Soul/R&B because Prince

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adevilnguyen@reddit

Bounce, Jazz, Cajun, Zydeco, Swamp Blues, Swamp Pop, and more.

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TwinkieMayhem24@reddit

Grunge

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RDCAIA@reddit

Go Go.

Hardcore punk.

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Unique_Mind2033@reddit

Surf Rock

Jack Johnson

the grateful dead

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Phantomtastic@reddit

Hardcore.

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LuigiSauce@reddit

Rock and roll!!!

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AKDude79@reddit

Texas country music, which is very distinct from Nashville country music.

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dontneedareason94@reddit

Hardcore punk

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Rogue-Telvanni@reddit

Hip-hop, Jazz, and essentially all of modern Indie Rock since the turn of the century.

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w84primo@reddit

Florida breaks, more specifically Orlando breaks.

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fl00km@reddit

How about Miami bass and 90’s Florida death metal?

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w84primo@reddit

I was going to go with Miami bass, but Orlando breaks is closer to me. Although I did know people who were pretty big in both genres. The Florida breaks scene was a big part of my life.

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fl00km@reddit

Is Florida breaks similar to UK breaks/breakbeat garage?

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macoafi@reddit

Emo

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Im_Not_Nick_Fisher@reddit

Southern rock… with bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd who might sing about sweet home Alabama are very much Floridians.

My friends mom always talks about how she used to go watch a young high school student playing at a bar in Gainesville. All of her friends were making a big deal over the kid. The kid was Tom Petty

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Antitenant@reddit

Freestyle/Latin Freestyle

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NSNick@reddit

Rock 'n Roll

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Zardozin@reddit

Yeah maybe named it, but other than Scresming Jay Hawkins didn’t start it.

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EmeraldJonah@reddit

The California punk rock scene in the early 90's, especially in southern california, was incredibly important to the rise of pop-punk, skate punk, mall punk...a lot of the different off shoots of punk rock music of the time. If I had to pick one, I'd say the southern california pop punk scene is really important to contemporary alternative and punk rock.

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tsukiii@reddit

Agreed on the pop punk. Blink-182 came from the same suburbs I grew up in (San Diego/Poway) and they were huge in that genre.

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Zardozin@reddit

Do you’re the one to blame

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tsukiii@reddit

Yes, I’m Tom DeLonge.

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Iola_Morton@reddit

X - the best of the lot was ten years before the early 90s

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Zardozin@reddit

That’s the socal Germs era

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byebybuy@reddit

And northern Cali, too, though perhaps a bit more mainstream pop-punk. See: Green Day, Rancid.

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Rezboy209@reddit

AFI is also from northern Cali.

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PacSan300@reddit

Would bands like The Offpring and Social Distortion have been part of this scene?

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EmeraldJonah@reddit

Offspring, sure, but social d had been active for some time before the pop punk style hit the mainstream. I would say they would be more responsible for bringing the concept of punk into the modern era, but maybe less responsible for the pop punk of the early 90s.

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03zx3@reddit

Texas can claim Western Swing all they want, but Bob Wills was in Oklahoma when he invented it.

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gratusin@reddit

Cain’s Ballroom (THE home of Bob Wills) is the best mid sized venue in the country IMO.

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gratusin@reddit

Stomp. Clap. Hey

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h0lych4in@reddit

Jersey Club

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LexiNovember@reddit

Not so much an entire genre, but Jimmy Buffet Margaritaville style of tropical rock.

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Dry-Region-9968@reddit

Definitely

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mike11172@reddit

Blind Lemon Jefferson to Lead Belly, to T-Bone Walker to Robert Johnson's seminal recordings. From Freddy King Buddy Guy to Stevie Ray Vaughn to Pantera. We were major influence in the Blues. From Michael Nesmith to Boz Skaggs, From Kelly Clarkson to Erykah Badu. Selena Gomez to LeAnn Rimes. We were fairly influential in Popular Music, too. North Texas area

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GhostOfJamesStrang@reddit

Motown.

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ServoWHU42@reddit

and prehistoric punk of the Stooges and MC5

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TheBimpo@reddit

And techno.

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belinck@reddit

And EDM

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GhostOfJamesStrang@reddit

And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie.

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

Reminds me I should be adding a Motown playlist to my Spotify

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Letmeinsoicanshine@reddit

House Music

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stillabadkid@reddit

Does anyone know of music from Massachusetts lol? I can't think of anything, I don't even know of Indigenous music

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D_Gleich@reddit

Tejano music

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juliefromva@reddit

G9 go - Washington DC

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Odd-Help-4293@reddit

Go-go

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masterofnone_@reddit

Go go

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C5H2A7@reddit

Blues

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allstarmom02@reddit

Bluegrass. Kentucky.

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

Ooooh boy and if you dive into that rabbit hole it gets complex. Bluegrass and proto bluegrass music originated east of Kentucky but it was just considered folk music. Kentucky was really the genre definer. Tennessee has a big claim too.

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No-Mastodon2164@reddit

So does Virginia.

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TheBimpo@reddit

North Carolina too.

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

You

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HoldMyWong@reddit

Alt-country started in St. Louis with Uncle Tupelo

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Agile_Property9943@reddit

Missouri was the birthplace of Ragtime as well.

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Gooch_McJunkins@reddit

Delta Blues. Regional genre primarily from North Mississippi, SE Arkansas, up to Memphis, TN.

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Paper182186902@reddit

Merseybeat, Liverpool

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I_demand_peanuts@reddit

Thrash in San Fran, baby

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jrhawk42@reddit

Nerdcore

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TehLoneWanderer101@reddit

If sub-genres count, gangsta rap, hyphy rap, hardcore punk, pop-punk, and thrash metal all were significantly developed in California.

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drewcandraw@reddit

In the late 50s-early 60s, surf rock was a minor fad in rock ’n’ roll that was an outgrowth from the coastal surfing communities in Southern California.

Around that time a couple of hours north up in Bakersfield, electrified country music was being birthed in the honky tonks there.

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genuinecve@reddit

Midwest Emo

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Judgy-Introvert@reddit

Grunge and Riot Grrrl rock.

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Current_Poster@reddit

Depending how you look at it, hip hop started a few miles from my house.

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myronsandee@reddit (OP)

The Bronx

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Chrisda19@reddit

Motown so...

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Jakebob70@reddit

Define "region"... None from my city that I know of. Chicago's had a few, but that's a couple hours away.

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bloodectomy@reddit

Bay Area Thrash!

I was at a thrash show last night actually. It's nuts (but also encouraging) that these dudes who pioneered the genre 40 years ago are still touring and putting out new music.

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