Are there no new musical genres anymore?

For these last years, after having listened a certain amount of music of different types, I've been wondering:

             Is the end of the emergence of new musical genres?

Concerning for example occidental popular music since the 50's, we can (very) roughly establish the following sequences:

=>    = gave birth to, by evolution
=/=> = gave birth to, by opposition

Jazz / Blues + Country =>  Rock'n'roll => Pop =/=> Progressive rock =/=> Punk rock => Heavy metal =/=> Grunge
Heavy metal => trash metal => black/death/... metal
Electro acoustic + indian raga => minimalistic => electro prog, ambient => techno, trance, IDM...

Etc... (sorry for the shortcuts if they're inexact, they're only used to illustrate my point)

As a teenager during the 90's, we saw the explosion of techno, grunge and rap. It was refreshing and exciting at the time. We rejected the former decade's musical genres such as new wave or "traditionnal" heavy metal. Each generation rejected the music from the previous generation.

For several years now (I would say circa 2005), I did not hear any new significant musical type, at least concerning occidental music. There are also no more "clans" or genuine generation oppositions. Here are my impressions:
- Pressured by the dominant musical industries, young bands are forced to please the largest audience, thus to deliver a mixture of several established genres
- The other bands playing "niche" or "cleaving" musics are either less innovative now and fail to renew, or become too specific to make a new genre emerge.

I'm not saying that the music itself is not good, I'm talking about genres.

What do think about it? Am I wrong? I would like to be wrong and to be still surprised.
Which new recent musical genres did you see these last years?
To young people reading this post, are you excited by a (preferably non-commercial) new music from your generation?

Maybe salvation will come from non-occidental cultures...

Edited by Modrigue - April 12 2016 at 05:39

No, just variations on familiar themes..........

There's new sub-genres in hip-hop and electronic music every other month. Rock music has been pretty stagnant for quite a while now.

rushfan4 wrote: Djent is relatively new in the grand scheme of themes.

cosmic space music

rushfan4 wrote: Djent is relatively new in the grand scheme of themes.

Edited by Imperial Zeppelin - April 12 2016 at 12:36

Post-genre music. 

Edited by Dean - April 12 2016 at 13:58

I think there is a direct correlation between 'nobody buys music anymore' and the lack of innovation in music.

agreed... genres are dying as quickly as the major players and labels that created them and profitted from them.

Easy to see... look at this site. We used to have bands knocking down the door to get added here... now I don't really think they care. The one Raff just added probably don't see themselves as a prog band.. yet have been playing all the major stops and shows on the east coast for the last several years.. and they are alive and doing fine even if never added here... having found prog fans that enjoy them and book them.. and yet have reached those for who tags and labels are meaningless and support them.. caring only that the music is good, interesting, and well performed. Not caring, as the band does not, what people care to attempt to pigeonhole or categorize them as.


Edited by micky - April 12 2016 at 15:50

I think after decades of allowing producers to make most of the vital decisions in entertainment the result is what we by in large now have. It seems every other movie is a remake or based off an old story, nothing original.This also plagues music. The reason for this is simple, it's proven to be lucrative. So what happens to artists that are raised in an environment like this? They continue the trend because it's what they know art to be. Of coarse there are going to be outliers to this, unfortunately not enough to create a genre.

dr wu23 wrote: Personally I think we have enough 'genres' already.