Order These Music Genres by the Decade They Emerged

Arrange these popular music genres in the order of the decade in which they first emerged and became culturally prominent. Music genres have not appeared randomly throughout history - They have been shaped by technological changes (the electric guitar, the synthesizer, digital audio workstations), social movements, demographic shifts, and cross-cultural exchange. Rock and roll emerged from the fusion of rhythm and blues with country music in the 1950s. Disco dominated the 1970s dance floors. Hip-hop emerged from the South Bronx in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Electronic dance music exploded with the rave culture of the late 1980s and 1990s. Understanding the chronology of music genre emergence tells the story of popular culture's evolution over the past century.