Modern music genres include Ska, a genre of Jamaican music which originated in the 1960s and is characterized by a walking bass line, offbeat rhythms, and horns; Emo, a style of rock music that originated in the mid-1980s and is characterized by confessional lyrics; Techno, a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit in the late 1980s; RAP, a genre of hip hop music that originated in the United States in the 1970s; and Newage, a genre of electronic music that emerged in the 1980s and is characterized by synthesizers and acoustic instruments.