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Electronic is a broad umbrella genre defined by the primary use of electronically generated or electronically processed sound. It encompasses music made with synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, computers, and studio/tape techniques, as well as electroacoustic manipulation of recorded or synthetic sources. The genre ranges from academic and experimental traditions to popular and dance-oriented forms. While its sonic palette is rooted in electricity and circuitry, its aesthetics span minimal and textural explorations, structured song forms, and beat-driven club permutations. Electronic emphasizes sound design, timbre, and studio-as-instrument practices as much as melody and harmony.

Folk is a song-centered acoustic tradition rooted in community storytelling, everyday life, and social history. It emphasizes clear melodies, simple harmonies, and lyrics that foreground narrative, protest, and personal testimony. As a modern recorded genre, folk coalesced in the early-to-mid 20th century in the United States out of older ballad, work song, and rural dance traditions. It typically features acoustic instruments (guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica), strophic song forms, and participatory singing (choruses, call-and-response).

Native American new age blends traditional Indigenous North American musical elements with the spacious textures, meditative pacing, and production aesthetics of new age and ambient music. Typical hallmarks include Native American flute melodies (often pentatonic), gentle frame-drum "heartbeat" rhythms, rattles and shakers, atmospheric drones, and abundant natural ambience (reverb, spacious delays, and field recordings of wind, water, and birds). The result aims for contemplation, healing, and cultural storytelling, while foregrounding the timbral beauty of Indigenous instruments in a serene, contemporary soundscape. Albums frequently emphasize nature, spirituality, and place, inviting listeners into reflective states through minimal harmonic motion, open fifths, and slowly evolving textures.

New age is a largely instrumental, mood-driven genre that emphasizes calm, spacious textures and a sense of spiritual or contemplative uplift. It blends gentle electronic timbres, acoustic instruments, and global/folk influences to create immersive soundscapes intended for relaxation, meditation, and introspection. Hallmarks include slow tempos or free time, long sustaining pads, modal and consonant harmonies, nature field recordings, and unobtrusive rhythms. The music often avoids dramatic tension in favor of openness and continuity, conveying themes of inner peace, nature, and the transcendent.