Which Music Genres Will Die Out within 20 years?

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My answer to this question: All the fake maintream artists, no matter what genre.

I really hope this reggaeton thing dies out. I think Daddy Yankee is the most known one, but around here there are lots and lots of it.

I know

Any crap MTV pushes in will die in 20 years....or a lot less

Indie may die in this decade

Rap is on life support...I guess

And so is Hip Hop ..oh wait...its the same thing almost

Gangsta culture may be saying its last words

STAY TUNED!

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The ending of this song is Dubstep done right In my opinion.

Critics have been saying for eons that certain genres of music are dead. For example: Big bands. Yes, leaders like Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, the Dorsey Brothers, etc. are gone, but they are not all entirely forgotten, as long as you have radio stations like WRTI--Philadelphia, Jazz91 in Toronto, WDUQ-Pittsburgh, etc., to educate the public about this type of music.

Ditto with classical music. While Opera seems to be doing OK financially, the symphony orchestras are losing audiences. What they need are music directors like David Zinman, who will discuss with the audience the music that is on the program for that evening. Zinman did that in Baltimore with the Baltimore Symphony during his tenure there as music director. I would have never bothered with Peter Torke's Compositions, if it weren't for Zinman, who made it known that Torke, like Scriabin, has synesthesia.

Unfortunately, nowadays in the US, jazz and classical music stations are becoming more scarce, as it's cheaper to program an all-talk format than it is to program music. Even then, the few fine music stations that remain, rely on syndication providers, like the Beethoven network and Public Radio International for their programming.

I'd love it if heavy metal and most of what sadly passes for "pop" these days both died out very quickly.

The problem with trying to predict which genres will 'die out' in a certain timespan as of now, is that a lot of genres that end up dropping of the radar of the common buying audience and mainstream music channels, actually continue to be enjoyed on a greater or lesser scale. They'll either maintain a large underground following, or they'll be picked up by musicians and music fans with a taste for the unusual or the unconventional, who will continue to listen to the music or play it.

Soul, for example, big in the late 60s and early 70s, was mostly supplanted by a discofied version of itself by the 1980s that morphed into new jack swing and urban contemporary. But it continued to be played in its original form by lovers of the genre, and by the early 2000s you had the neo-soul movement in America, which begat the britsoul that found its way into the charts with Winehouse, Duffy, and Adele. You look at the mainstream media, the 80s and 90s are a wasteland for soul music, and it's as if the genre has died out. There's no telling whether a genre that's fallen out of favour with the larger public, will keep its head down forever.

Jazz supplanted ragtime in the 1920s and '30s, but people still play rags to this day. Who knows the 2020s might be the decade for 'neo-ragtime'.