Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This article is a supplemental part of the Music of the United States series. Roots music: before 1940 1940s and 50s 1960s and 70s 1980s to the present African-American music Native American music Latin, Tejano, Hawaiian, Cajun, Puerto Rican and other immigrants Florida's ethnic diversity has led to a myriad of musical styles from punk rock to salsa and heavy metal being popular in various parts of the state. In the early 1980s, Florida was dominated by Southern rock bands in the vein of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Table of contents 1 Miami bass 2 Punk rock 3 References Miami bass Miami bass is a form of dance music invented in the late 1970s in Miami. The genre uses rapping and is considered a type of hip hop music, albeit tangentially. Sexually explicit lyrics led to controversy when 2 Live Crew gained some national fame after local officials banned the album and arrested some record store owners. Punk rock Florida has long been notorious for repression of youth culture, and punk rock was no exception. Centered out of Gainesville, Tampa and other cities, hardcore punk gained a widespread following. The first band is believed to be Roach Motel of Gainesville. Rat Cafeteria (Tampa), Sector 4, Hated Youth (both of Tallahassee), Morbid Opera (Miami) and Crucial Truth (Pompano Beach) also gained an audience. Some blame the death of Florida hardcore on an influx of hard-right Cuban skinheads. References Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. 2001. Feral House. ISBN 0-922915-717-7 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.