AP style journalistic writing?

Question

I'm writing a story on the evolution of 20th century music for a newspaper. Naturally, I have to name a bunch of different genres of music. What I need to know is if under the AP guidlines, do you capitalize genres? like would it be Hip Hop or hip hop? If you know please tell me ASAP!!! Thank you!

Answer 1

Better focus more on your research. Style is not important, but substance is. The focus on journalistic styles is what made the American public some of the world's most ignorant citizens, full of prejudices, biases, and one dimensional awareness of their world . American journalists have been dishing out stupidity after stupidity, because they often fail to even understand their own topic beneath just scraping the surface. When using flashy styles and personal biases as cheap fillers for their lack of substance in writing, their abundance of idiocy and worthlessness can only be compared with the ever expanding excess of fat and its absurdity in the American population. Are those journalistic airheads the type of people that you look up to?

Answer 2

I am not sure what the style is, but here is how I would approach it. Outline an AP book review so that you can follow the format. After doing one, I would check the outline against others to see if they all follow the same format.

Answer 3

First, you would not capitalize a genre of music.

Second, don't stress. Copy editors are paid to fix that sort of thing!

Answer 4

Actually, we use hip-hop. It's not a formal title, so I would think it is lower case.