Music Genres

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Style of music with improvisation, born in New Orleans (4)
  2. 6. Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to (6)
  3. 7. An earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul (4)
  4. 9. One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen (11)
  5. 11. The immaterial part of a person (4)

Down

  1. 1. Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome (5)
  2. 2. Folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United (6)
  3. 4. Moving your body to music (5)
  4. 5. A politically organized body of people under a single government (7)
  5. 8. Popular music originating in the West Indies (6)
  6. 10. A style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals (6)