GENRES, AUDIENCE, AND ICONOGRAPHY

Sophie Lavis

How many different genres are there? Answer: as many as you want, due to

their being so many sub-genres and fusion of different genres creating new one, there is a constant evolution of genre within any sort of media.

Top selling music magazines? Within the US :

World wide:

1. Rolling stone (rock) 2. Billboard (mixed) 3. Spin (broad music

coverage/ emphasis on college-oriented rock music and hip-hop)

1. Mojo (classic rock) 2.Q (pop/rock) 3.Kerrang! (many different

types of rock)

What sort of music magazines are out there? Many people would argue due to the

vast sub-genres there are but it mainly ends up as the four main/most popular – Rock, Indie, Dance and Pop.

Post-hardcore and all the other ‘core’ genres mixed – what sort of audience range is there?

From the beginning with Led Zeppelin there Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, there has always been a large fan base, yet due to the nature of the ‘heavy-ness’ of the music it is largely associated with a male culture with the anger/violence connoted through the music and performance style (moshing, head banging, wall of death, ‘arm thrust’). However as time went on the favoured audience widened to those who also preferred ‘light metal’ or ‘hair metal’ and a more female based fan structure. And in the present day ‘hardcore’ metal bands have fans who also enjoy the acoustic versions or a wide range of genres.