The Guitar's Role in Different Genres

While listening to an hour of music in four different genres, I realized that while guitars play a key role in some music, they are not even used in other music. I decided to listen to rock, pop, country and rap. While listening to rock I found that for the majority of the songs played guitars were the main instrument, however there were still some songs that relied heavily on the piano with the guitar being used as a background instrument. I did not know what I was going to find while listening to pop music. I was surprised when I was able to hear small guitar parts mostly as background; I never noticed this before and I was expecting not to hear much guitar at all. Country was the only genre in which guitars were in every single song that I listened to. Guitars play an extremely important role in this type of music. I was able to hear acoustic and electric guitars in nearly every song, and bass guitars in a couple other songs. The last genre that I listened to was rap and I was not able to hear any guitars in this type of music, but I was not expecting to. Overall I was able to find guitars in more music than I thought. I found that when listening to music where guitars are taking a less powerful role, they are often overlooked.