Era of origin
1850s music genres
Explore music genres with documented origins in the 1850s.
4 genre guides
1850Barbershop
A warm, tightly tuned vocal style rooted in African-American harmony-making, later formalized by revival-era organizations and still most recognizably heard in quartets and choruses.
1850Bolero
A Cuban-born romantic song tradition that matured into a pan-Latin standard, with especially strong Mexican reinvention and a long afterlife in trio singing and pop revival.
1850Música criolla
A coastal Peruvian tradition that blends guitar-led song, Afro-Peruvian rhythmic memory, and urban salon-and-street vitality, now recognized as a key part of the country’s cultural identity.
1850Klapa Multipart Singing
Dalmatia's close-harmony singing tradition turns small groups of voices into a rich, resonant expression of love, community and coastal life.