A list of terms used in the music industry. The list can never be complete: some terms are common, and others are used only occasionally. Registered guest can help build the glossary by adding entries if you do not see it here.
Term | Main definition |
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jangle pop |
Glossaries - Music Glossary
Jangle pop is a genre of alternative rock from the mid-1980s that "marked a return to the chiming or jangly guitars and pop melodies of the '60s" with electric twelve-string guitars and power pop song structures. |
jazz |
Glossaries - Music Glossary
A type of American music that originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the Southern United States as a combination of European harmony and forms with African musical elements such as blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note. |
Jersey Shore sound |
Glossaries - Music Glossary
A synthesis of pre-Beatles rock and roll and pre-Motown rhythm and blues, the genre enjoyed a vogue from roughly the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, although it still exists today. |
jug band |
Glossaries - Music Glossary
A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of traditional and home-made instruments. These home-made instruments are ordinary objects adapted to or modified for making of sound, like the washtub bass, washboard, spoons, stovepipe and comb & tissue paper (kazoo). |
jump blues |
Glossaries - Music Glossary
Jump blues is an up-tempo blues usually played by small groups and featuring horns. It was very popular in the 1940s, and the movement was a precursor to the arrival of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. |
Juno Award |
Glossaries - Music Glossary
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies. |