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New York City By: Haleigh McDonald  New York City is one of the best places to go to school for performing arts, that is why some of the best musicians and artists come from NYC. The city is where Punk and Hip-Hop was started and it also has a rich R&B and Pop culture. A majority of Pop and Soul hits in the 1950's were written at Tin Pin Alley in a one room office in New York City by the same 6 song-writers. New York is obviously the home to Broadway Musicals and famous music venues like the Fillmore and CBGB. New York City has brought us some of the most famous musicians and song-writers of all time like Bob Dylan. R&B artists like Alicia Keys, Mary J Blige and Mariah Carey. Pop artists like Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Joel, and Lana Del Rey and all of these artists have claimed that they only made it in music because of the musical influences they had growing up in New York City. The genre of Punk was started in New York City where bands like the Ramones a...

Nashville  By: Haleigh McDonald On every content in the world countries have their own versions of Pop, Hip-Hop, Rap and Rock music, but Country music is only associated with America and Nashville is the state most well known for Country music. Even though Los Angeles is home to a majority of famous artists and has a wide range of music present in the city, Nashville is knows as the Music City of America.  When you think of Nashville you probably think of Honky Tonks, Cowboy boots and hats and country music artists like Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Luke Byran and Carrie Underwood, which is an accurate representation of Nashville, but the city plays a bigger part in music than all of that. The best song-writers for all genres of music live in Nashville because of the rich history of country music song-writing that was born in Nashville. A lot of pop artists like Halsey, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran write and record their music in Nashville because of the famous son...

  Photo By: Haleigh McDonald Music Cities By: Haleigh McDonald There is currently over one hundred genres of music from Hip-Hop and pop to Alternative and country and as music continues to evolve, it still has its roots in the begging few genres that existed only 70 years ago. African slave instruments and tribal music involved into blues, blues involved into Soul, Jazz, Pop, Country and R&B, and from Country and R&B, Rock N' Roll was formed and from Rock N' Roll, genres like Hip Hop, Punk and Metal music were invented. Over the years, many cities around the United States have had an influence in starting a new music scene that would eventually spread through out the country and around the world. For example, Nashville is the Country music capital, Hip-Hop was started at the same time in both New York and Los Angeles, Jazz is most prevalent in New Orleans, Blues was started in the Mississippi Delta and  Alternative Rock and Grunge music started in Se...