Dubstep

With the rise of better and better technology, electronic music production is as sophisticated as ever, and has spawned many new genres of music. Since the turn of the 21st century, in the UK, garage music and 2-step morphed into the genre known as dubstep today. Most people have probably heard of this genre, possibly without knowing it. Ever hear of Skrillex? He’s a dubstep producer. Dubstep is classified as “a type of electronic dance music having prominent bass lines and syncopated drum patterns” (Merriam-Webster). In layman’s terms, dubstep is electronic music that has heavily modulated bass sounds. There has been a lot of debate whether dubstep is, in fact, real music. Dubstep is real music because it fits the dictionary definition of music, its very prominent in the music scene and has made a foray into popular culture, it has been and can be used for music therapy, and it takes skill and thought to produce.
This essentially means that music is putting instruments that are playing certain notes together at certain times to create a song. Dubstep adheres to this dictionary definition. A producer creates different instruments (real and/or synthesized), writes down notes for them to play (also known as MIDI), and arranges them so that they fit together to make a song. Some may define music as needing to have a vocal aspect to be called music. With this definition, lots of famous works