For many music fans, the Motown Sound is the defining sound of 1960s pop, R&B, and soul music; with The Temptations, The Miracles, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
New York Hip Hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s; the main component of hip hop from today are MCing, DJing, break dancing, and graffiti.
Protest songs are written using traditional folk, hillbilly and bluegrass traditions; music artists overthrow 1950s attitudes, bringing civil rights, poverty and other issues into focus.
With Lionel Ritchie; Michael Bolton; Billy Ocean; Soul began essentially as uplifting black gospel music; Otis Redding took the genre to its next stage with Mr. Pitiful.
Rock 'n' roll draws upon New Orleans' many musical sources, including black funeral bands, Mardi Gras parades, country blues from Mississippi delta and various forms of jazz.