{
  "name": "Northern American Music",
  "description": "Regional styles with roots in Northern America (America north of Mexico, including Canada, United States, Greenland, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, and Bermuda), typically drawing from European Folk Music and Classical Music as well as West African Music and Indigenous American Music influences.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/northern-american-music/",
  "parent": "Regional Music",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 30,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Ambient Americana",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ambient-americana/",
      "description": "Made using traditional Americana and Country instrumentation, typically to evoke a pastoral atmosphere.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "American Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/american-folk-music/",
      "description": "Traces back through the history of European and West African settlement and migration to North America, including parts of northern Mexico and Canada in addition to the United States.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "American Primitivism",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/american-primitivism/",
      "description": "Blends avant-garde and neo-classical compositions with traditional Country Blues fingerpicking techniques.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Americana",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/americana/",
      "description": "Incorporates a broad swath of American Folk Music and Contemporary Folk influences, evolving alongside Alt-Country.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Barbershop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/barbershop/",
      "description": "Harmonized singing consisting of four vocal elements: the 'lead' (2nd tenor), the 1st tenor, the baritone, and the bass.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Boogie Woogie",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/boogie-woogie/",
      "description": "Early, uptempo Blues featuring the piano as the main instrument, with soloing and improvisation played over the top of a repetitive eight note bassline.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Canadian Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/canadian-folk-music/",
      "description": "Traditional folk of the European settlers who arrived in Canada.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chanson québécoise",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/chanson-quebecoise/",
      "description": "French-language music of the Québécois singer-songwriters.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chicago Polka",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/chicago-polka/",
      "description": "Polish-American style known for slower tempo, improvisation and the ensemble typically including the clarinet, trumpet, and concertina.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Coon Song",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/coon-song/",
      "description": "Lyrical trend popular in the United States from around 1880 to 1920 that presents a racist and highly stereotyped image of African Americans connected with the subject matter and style of minstrel shows.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country/",
      "description": "American genre derived from Southern and Appalachian forms of American Folk Music and later Rock and Pop influences, with a focus on the life and culture of rural America.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-rock/",
      "description": "Combination of contemporary Rock with more traditional American Country.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cowboy Poetry",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/cowboy-poetry/",
      "description": "Descended from the oral traditions of cowboys and ranchers, written with traditional use of rhyme and meter, using humor and slang, and primarily concerning the cowboy profession, lifestyle, and legacy.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Eastern-Style Polka",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/eastern-style-polka/",
      "description": "Fast, urban Polish-American style performed by a Big Band-like ensemble.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Foxtrot",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/foxtrot/",
      "description": "Lightly syncopated ballroom dance form in 4/4, most popular in the 1930s and closely associated with early Big Band Jazz.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Greenlandic Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/greenlandic-music/",
      "description": "Majorly from Inuit ethnic groups in Greenland, a large island between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hapa haole",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/hapa-haole/",
      "description": "Hawaiian musical traditions adapted to popular American Jazz and Pop styles.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Indigenous North American Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/indigenous-north-american-music/",
      "description": "Diverse styles and genres developed by the indigenous peoples of present-day Canada, the United States and northwestern Mexico.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Louisiana Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/louisiana-music/",
      "description": "Regional Music from the US state of Louisiana.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Minstrelsy",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/minstrelsy/",
      "description": "Popular song and entertainment tradition from the U.S. engendered in variety shows employing racist caricature and blackface.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "New Mexico Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/new-mexico-music/",
      "description": "Derived from the Traditional Folk Music of New Mexico mixed with influences from Western, Country and Norteño, particularly associated with Spanish-speaking Nuevomexicanos.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pep Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/pep-band/",
      "description": "Performs at athletic events, and typically performs modified versions of Pop songs.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ragtime",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ragtime/",
      "description": "Emerged in the 1890s; piano-led and characterized by a heavily syncopated rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Roots Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/roots-rock/",
      "description": "Consciously and predominantly incorporates elements of its predecessors and original roots such as Country, Blues, Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll, and American Folk Music, but also many other American traditions.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Steel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-steel/",
      "description": "Focused on instrumentals and played on the steel guitar.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shaker Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shaker-music/",
      "description": "Created by the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as Shakers, for worship.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Southern Gospel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/southern-gospel/",
      "description": "Initially sung A cappella by a Vocal Group quartet, sometimes with a pianist or guitar as accompaniment, with lyrics and messages primarily revolving around the teachings found within Christianity.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Texan Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/texan-music/",
      "description": "Regional Music from the US state of Texas.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tin Pan Alley",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tin-pan-alley/",
      "description": "Early era of popular song in the USA, broadly from the 1890s-1930s; influences include Ragtime, Vaudeville, and Parlour Music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Vaudeville",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/vaudeville/",
      "description": "Performed in American musical theaters typically as part of a lowbrow, often comedic variety performance.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Northern American Music"
    }
  ]
}