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2.5.4 Name a Musical Genre: Give New Genres of Music (New to You) Some Attention
Name a musical genre that you're unfamiliar with. Now listen to great songs of that genre. New genres of music (new to you) will spark your musical imagination. You will be able to better envision how you could incorporate elements from other genres into your own musical art, the way language artists incorporate elements of style, grammar and vocabulary from other languages into their works.
The more you listen to, remember, and absorb at least a sampling of the best songs of genres other than your own, the more likely you will be able to create a unique body of original songs and a performing style that sounds like nothing anyone’s heard before. A sound that grabs the ears of audiences and holds them. A signature sound and style (see Section 11.2).