Genres of music are determined as much by tradition and presentation as by the actual music. Some works, like George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, are claimed by both jazz and classical music, while Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story are claimed by both opera and the Broadway musical custom. Many present music festivals for non-Western music embody bands and singers from a selected musical style, corresponding to world music. For instance, some singers report themselves singing a melody and then report a quantity of concord elements utilizing overdubbing, creating a sound that would be impossible to do reside. Some styles of music place an emphasis on sure of those fundamentals, whereas others place much less emphasis on sure parts.

• Originally a scrappy showcase for new bands, South by Southwest — or “South By,” as it’s broadly identified — has lengthy since morphed into a vast mixture