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A music genre is a conventional category that identifies
some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition
or set of conventions.[1] It is to be distinguished
from musical form and musical style, although in
practice these terms are sometimes used
interchangeably.[2][failed verification]
Music can be divided into different genres in many
different ways, such as into popular music and art
music, or religious music and secular music. The artistic
nature of music means that these classifications are
often subjective and controversial, and some genres
may overlap. Academic definitions of the
term genre itself vary. In his book Form in Tonal Music,
Douglass M. Green distinguishes between genre
and form. He lists madrigal, motet, canzona, ricercar,
and dance as examples of genres from
the Renaissance period. To further clarify the meaning
of genre, Green writes, "Beethoven's Op. 61 and
Mendelssohn's Op. 64 are identical in genre—both are
violin concertos—but different in form. However,
Mozart's Rondo for Piano, K. 511, and the Agnus
Dei from his Mass, K. 317, are quite different in genre
but happen to be similar in form."[3] Some, like Peter van
der Merwe, treat the terms genre and style as the same,
saying that genre should be defined as pieces of music
that share a certain style or "basic musical
language."[4] Others, such as Allan F. Moore, state
that genre and style are two separate terms, and that
secondary characteristics such as subject matter can
also differentiate between genres. [5] A music genre or
subgenre may also be defined by the musical
techniques, the cultural context, and the content and
spirit of the themes. Geographical origin is sometimes
used to identify a music genre, though a single
geographical category will often include a wide variety of
 subgenres. Timothy Laurie argues that, since the early
1980s, "genre has graduated from being a subset of
popular music studies to being an almost ubiquitous
framework for constituting and evaluating musical
research objects".[6]
Musicologists have sometimes classified music
according to a trichotomous distinction such as Philip
Tagg's "axiomatic triangle consisting of 'folk', 'art' and
'popular' musics".[7] He explains that each of these three
is distinguishable from the others according to certain
criteria.[7]
Alternatively, music can be assessed on the three
dimensions of "arousal", "valence", and "depth".
[8] Arousal reflects physiological processes such as
stimulation and relaxation (intense, forceful, abrasive,
thrilling vs. gentle, calming, mellow), valence reflects
emotion and mood processes (fun, happy, lively,
enthusiastic, joyful vs. depressing, sad), and depth
reflects cognitive processes (intelligent, sophisticated,
inspiring, complex, poetic, deep, emotional, thoughtful
vs. party music, danceable).[8] These help explain why
many people like similar songs from different
traditionally segregated genres.[8]

Contents
 1Art music
 2Popular music
 2.1Rock music
 2.2Electronic music
 2.3Soul music/R&B
 2.4Funk
 2.5Country music
 2.6Latin Music
 2.7Reggae
 2.8Hip hop music
 2.9Polka
 3Religious music
 4Traditional and folk music
 5Automatic categorization
 6Emergence of new genres and sub-genres
 7Commercial sales
 8Psychology of music preference
 8.1Social influences on music selection
 8.2Individual and situational influences
 8.2.1Gender
 8.2.2Age
 9See also
 10References
 11Further reading

Art music[edit]
Main article: Art music
See also: List of art music traditions
Art music primarily includes classical traditions,
including both contemporary and historical classical
music forms. Art music exists in many parts of the world.
It emphasizes formal styles that invite technical and
detailed deconstruction[9] and criticism, and demand
focused attention from the listener. In Western practice,
art music is considered primarily a written musical
tradition,[10] preserved in some form of music
notation rather than being transmitted orally, by rote, or
in recordings, as popular and traditional music usually
are.[10][11] Historically, most western art music has been
written down using the standard forms of music notation
that evolved in Europe, beginning well before the
Renaissance and reaching its maturity in
the Romantic period. The identity of a "work" or "piece"
of art music is usually defined by the notated version
rather than by a particular performance and is primarily
associated with the composer rather than the performer
(though composers may leave performers with some
opportunity for interpretation or improvisation). This is so
particularly in the case of western classical music. Art
music may include certain forms of jazz, though some
feel that jazz is primarily a form of popular music. The
1960s saw a wave of avant-garde experimentation in
free jazz, represented by artists such as Ornette
Coleman, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp and Don
Cherry.[12] And avant-garde rock artists such as Frank
Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and The Residents released
art music albums.
Popular music[edit]
Main article: Popular music

Jennifer Lopez performing at a pop music festival

Popular music is any musical style accessible to the

general public and disseminated by the mass media.
Musicologist and popular music specialist Philip Tagg
defined the notion in the light of sociocultural and
economical aspects:
 Popular music, unlike art music, is
(1) conceived for mass distribution to
large and often socioculturally
heterogeneous groups of listeners, (2)
stored and distributed in non-written
form, (3) only possible in an
industrial monetary economy where it
becomes a commodity and (4) in
capitalist societies, subject to the
laws of 'free' enterprise ... it
should ideally sell as much as
possible.[7]
Popular music is found on most commercial and public
service radio stations, in most commercial music
retailers and department stores, and movie and
television soundtracks. It is noted on the Billboard 
charts and, in addition to singer-songwriters and
composers, it involves music producers more than other
genres do.
The distinction between classical and popular music has
sometimes been blurred in marginal areas[13] such
as minimalist music and light classics. Background
music for films/movies often draws on both traditions. In
this respect, music is like fiction, which likewise draws a
distinction between literary fiction and popular
fiction that is not always precise.
Rock music[edit]
Main article: Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that
originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the
early 1950s, and developed into a range of different
styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United
Kingdom and in the United States.
Electronic music[edit]
Main article: Electronic music § Rise of popular
electronic music
Electronic dance music saw further rise[clarification needed] in
early 21st-century pop culture due to DJs
like Avicii, Calvin Harris, Daft Punk, David Guetta, Nico
Bisio, Deadmau5, Marshmello, Martin
Garrix, Skrillex and more.[14]
Soul music/R&B[edit]
Main article: Soul music
Soul music became a musical genre that came to
include a wide variety of R&B-based music styles from
the pop R&B acts at Motown Records in Detroit, such
as The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Four Tops, to
"deep soul" singers such as Percy Sledge and James
Carr.[15]
Funk[edit]
Main article: Funk
Country music[edit]
Main article: Country music
Country music, also known as country and western (or
simply country) and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular
music that originated in the southern United States in
the early 1920s.
Latin Music[edit]
Main article: Latin music
Reggae[edit]
Main article: Reggae
Reggae music, originating from the late 1960s Jamaica,
is a genre of music that was originally used by
Jamaicans to define themselves with their lifestyle and
social aspects.[16] The meaning behind reggae songs
tend to be about love, faith or a higher power, and
freedom.[17] Reggae music is important to Jamaican
culture as it has been used as inspiration for many third
world liberation movements. Bob Marley, an artist
primarily known for reggae music, was honored by
Zimbabwe's 1980 Independence celebration due to his
music giving inspirations to freedom fighters. The music
genre of reggae is known to incorporate different stylistic
techniques form rhythm and blues, jazz, African,
Caribbean, and other genres as well but what makes
reggae unique are the vocals and lyrics.[citation needed] The
vocals tend to be sung in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican
English, and Iyaric dialects. The lyrics of reggae music
usually tend to raise political awareness and on cultural
perspectives.[18]
Hip hop music[edit]

Two DJs practicing turntablism

Main article: Hip hop music

Hip Hop music, also referred to as hip hop or rap music,
is a genre of music that was started in the United States,
specifically the South Bronx in the New York City by
African-American youth from the inner cities during the
1970s. It can be broadly defined as a stylized rhythmic
music that commonly accompanies rapping,[19] a
rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[20] Hip hop
music derives from the hip hop culture itself, including
four key elements: emceeing (MCing)/rapping, Disc
jockeying (DJing)
with turntablism, breakdancing and graffiti art.
Polka[edit]
Main article: Polka
The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of
dance music familiar throughout Europe and the
Americas.[21]
Religious music[edit]
Main article: Religious music
Religious music (also sacred music) is music performed
or composed for religious use or through religious
influence. Gospel, spiritual, and Christian music are
religious music.
Traditional and folk music[edit]
Main article: Traditional music
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Button accordion: German instrument used in several different cultures

Traditional and folk music are very similar categories.

Although the traditional music is a very broad category
and can include several different genres, it is widely
accepted that traditional music encompasses folk music.
[22] According to the ICTM (International Council for
Traditional Music), traditional music are songs and tunes
that have been performed over a long period of time
(usually several generations). [23]
The folk music genre is classified as the music that is
orally passed from one generation to another. Usually
the artist is unknown, and there are several different
versions of the same song.[24] The genre is transmitted
by singing, listening and dancing to popular songs. This
type of communication allows culture to transmit the
styles (pitches and cadences) as well as the context it
was developed.[25]
Culturally transmitting folk songs maintain rich evidence
about the period of history when they were created and
the social class in which they developed. [26] Some
examples of the Folk Genre can be seen in the folk
music of England and Turkish folk music. English folk
music has developed since the medieval period and has
been transmitted from that time until today. Similarly,
Turkish folk music relates to all the civilizations that
once passed thorough Turkey, thereby being a world
reference since the east–west tensions during the Early
Modern Period.
Traditional folk music usually refers to songs composed
in the twentieth century, which tend to be written as
universal truths and big issues of the time they were
composed.[27] Artists including Bob Dylan; Peter, Paul
and Mary; James Taylor; and Leonard
Cohen transformed folk music to what it is known today.
[28] Newer composers such as Ed Sheeran (pop folk)
and The Lumineers (American folk) are examples
of contemporary folk music, which has been recorded
and adapted to the new way of listening to music
(online)—unlike the traditional way of orally transmitting
music.[29]
Each country in the world, in some cases each region,
district and community, has its own folk music style. The
different sub-divisions of folk genre are developed by
each place, cultural identity and history. [30] Because the
music is developed in different places, a lot of the
instruments are characteristic to location and population
—but some are used everywhere: button or piano
accordion, different types of flutes or trumpets, banjo,
and ukulele. Both French and Scottish folk music use
related instruments such as the fiddle, the harp and
variations of bagpipes.[31][32]
Automatic categorization[edit]
Main articles: Automatic content recognition and Music
information retrieval
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Automatic methods of musical similarity detection,
based on data mining and co-occurrence analysis, have
been developed to classify music titles for electronic
music distribution.[33]
Emergence of new genres and sub-genres[edit]
For more information, see Fusion (music).
New genres can arise through the development of new
forms and styles of music and also simply by creating a
new categorization. Although it is conceivable to create
a musical style with no relation to existing genres, new
styles usually appear under the influence of pre-existing
genres. The genealogy of musical genres expresses,
often in the form of a written chart, how new genres
have developed under the influence of older ones. If two
or more existing genres influence the emergence of a
new one, a fusion between them can be said to have
taken place. The proliferation of popular music in the
20th century has led to over 1,200 definable sub-genres
of music.[34]
Commercial sales[edit]
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Psychology of music preference[edit]

Main article: Psychology of music preference

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Social influences on music selection[edit]

Since music has become more easily accessible
(Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, etc.), more people have
begun listening to a broader and wider range of music
styles.[35] In addition, social identity also plays a large
role in music preference. Personality is a key contributor
for music selection. Someone who considers
themselves to be a "rebel" will tend to choose heavier
music styles like heavy metal or hard rock, while
someone who considers themselves to be more
"relaxed" or "laid back" will tend to choose lighter music
styles like jazz or classical music.[35] There are five main
factors that exist that underlie music preferences that
are genre-free,[contradictory] and reflect emotional/affective
responses.[36] These five factors are:
1. A Mellow factor consisting of smooth and relaxing
styles (jazz, classical, etc.).
2. An Urban factor defined largely by rhythmic and
percussive music (rap, hip-hop, funk, etc.).
3. A Sophisticated factor (operatic, world, etc.)
4. An Intensity factor that is defined by forceful, loud,
and energetic music (rock, metal, etc.).
5. A campestral factor, which refers to singer-
songwriter genres and country.[36]
Individual and situational influences[edit]
Gender[edit]
Studies have shown that while women prefer more
treble oriented music, men prefer to listen to bass heavy
music. This is sometimes paired
with borderline and antisocial personalities.[37]
Age[edit]
Age is another strong factor that contributes to musical
preference. Evidence is available that shows that music
preference can change as one gets older.[38] A
Canadian study showed that adolescents show greater
interest in pop music artists while adults and the elderly
population prefer classic genres such as rock, opera,
and jazz.[39]
See also[edit]
 Composition school
 Genealogy of musical genres
 List of music styles
 List of popular music genres
 List of radio formats
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Further reading[edit]
 Holt, Fabian (2007). Genre in Popular Music. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
 Negus, Keith (1999). Music Genres and Corporate
Cultures. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-
17399-5.
 Starr, Larry; Waterman, Christopher Alan
(2010). American popular music from minstrelsy to
 MP3. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-
539630-0.
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List of popular music genres

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Popular music is music with wide appeal[1][2][3] that is
typically distributed to large audiences through
the music industry. These forms and styles can be
enjoyed and performed by people with little or
no musical training.[1] It stands in contrast to both art
music[4][5][6] like Western classical music or Indian
classical music, and traditional or "folk" music.
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies
some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition
or set of conventions.[7]
This is a list of the commercially
relevant modern popular music genres, with applicable
styles classified using AllMusic[8] genre categorization.

Contents
 Exclusions
 By region 
o  African
o Asian 
  East Asian
 South Asian
 Southeast Asian
 
 
 Avant-garde
 Blues
 Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced
 Comedy
 Country
 Easy listening
 Electronic 
o  House
 
 Flamenco
 Folk
 Hip hop
 Jazz
 Latin
 Pop
 R&B and soul
 Rock 
o  Heavy metal
o Punk rock
 
 See also
 References 
o  Bibliography

Exclusions[edit]
Genres or styles that are not contemporary or
commercially marketed in substantial numbers have
been excluded from this list, as follows:
 Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or
similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game
music, music hall songs and showtunes
 Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and
others
 Religious music: Gregorian
chant, spirituals, hymns and similar
 Occasional music: Military music, marches, national
anthems and related compositions
 Regional and national music with no significant
commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version
of an international genre, such as: traditional
music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work
songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous
music. In North America and Western Europe,
regional and national genres that are not from the
Western world are sometimes classified as world
music.
By region[edit]
 African[edit]
Further information: African popular music
 Afrobeat
 African hip hop
 African heavy metal
 Apala
 Benga
 Boomba
 Bongo Flava
 Bikutsi
 Cape Jazz
 Chimurenga
 Congolese rumba
 Coupé-Décalé
 Fuji
 Genge
 Highlife
 Hiplife
 Igbo highlife
 Igbo rap
 Isicathamiya
 Jit
 Jùjú
 Gqom
 Kadongo Kamu
 Kizomba
 Kuduro
 Kwaito
 Kwela
 Makossa
 Maloya
 Marabi
 Marrabenta
 Mbalax
 Mbaqanga
 Mbube
 Morna
 Ndombolo
 Palm-wine
 Raï
 Sega
 Shangaan electro
 Soukous
o Kwassa kwassa
 Taarab
 Zouglou
Asian[edit]
Further information: Music of Asia
 Fijiri
 Khaliji
 Liwa
 Sawt
East Asian[edit]
 C-pop
oCantopop
oMandopop
oTaiwanese pop
 Chinese rock
 Enka
 Hong Kong English pop
 J-pop
 Japanese jazz
 Japanese rock
 Kayōkyoku
 K-pop
 Korean hip hop
 Trot
South Asian[edit]
 Asian Underground
 Baila
 Baul
 Bhangra
 Bhawaiya
 Goa trance
 Indian Classical
o Hindustani Classical
o Carnatic
 Indian jazz
 Indian pop
 Indian rock
o Raga rock
 Lavani
 Morlam
 Ragini
 Sufi rock
Southeast Asian[edit]
Further information: Music of Southeast Asia
 Dangdut
 Indo pop
 Luk thung
o Luk Krung
 Manila Sound
o Original Pilipino
 Mor lam
 Pinoy pop
 Pop sunda
 Thai string pop
 Thai pop
 V-pop
 Avant-garde[edit]
Further information: Avant-garde music
 Experimental
 Noise
o Harsh Noise
o Harsh noise wall
 Outsider music
 Lo-fi
 Musique concrète
 Electroacoustic
Blues[edit]
Further information: Blues
 African blues
 Blues rock
 Canadian blues
 Chicago blues
 Classic female blues
 Contemporary R&B
 Country blues
 Delta blues
 Detroit blues
 Electric blues
 Gospel blues
 Hill country blues
 Jump blues
 Kansas City blues
 Louisiana blues
 Memphis blues
 Piedmont blues
 Punk blues
 Rhythm and blues
 Soul blues
 St. Louis blues
 Swamp blues
 Texas blues
 West Coast blues
Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced[edit]
Main article: List of Caribbean music genres
 Baithak Gana
 Dancehall
 Bouyon
 Cadence-lypso
 Calypso
 Cha-cha-chá
 Chutney
o Chutney soca
o Chutney parang
 Compas
 Mambo
 Merengue
 Méringue
 Mozambique
 Pichakaree
 Punta
 Punta Rock
 Rasin
 Reggae
o Dub
o Lovers rock
o Ragga
o Ragga jungle
o Reggae fusion
o Reggaeton
 Rocksteady
 Rumba
 Ska
o Two-tone
o Ska punk
 Salsa
 Son cubano
 Songo
 Soca
o Power Soca
 Timba
 Twoubadou
 Zouk
Comedy[edit]
 Comedy
 Comedy rock
 Novelty
 Parody
Country[edit]
Further information: Country music
 Alternative country
o Cowpunk
 Americana
 Australian country
 Bakersfield sound
 Bluegrass
o Progressive bluegrass
 Cajun
o Cajun fiddle
 Christian country
 Classic country
 Close harmony
 Country blues
 Country pop
 Country rap
 Country rock
 Cowboy
o Cowboy pop
 Dansband
 Hokum
 Honky tonk
 Música sertaneja
 Nashville sound
 Neotraditional country
 Outlaw country
 Progressive country
 Red Dirt
 Rockabilly
o Hellbilly
o Psychobilly
 Texas country
 Traditional country
 Truck-driving country
 Western swing
 Zydeco
Easy listening[edit]
Further information: Easy listening
 Background music
 Beautiful music
 Elevator music
 Furniture music
 Lounge music
 Middle of the road music
 New-age music
Electronic[edit]
Further information: Electronic music
 Ambient
o Ambient dub
o Dark ambient
 Dungeon synth
o Drone
o Space
o Illbient
o Psybient
 Breakbeat
o Acid breaks
o Baltimore club
 Jersey club
o Big beat
o Broken beat
o Florida breaks
  Nu-funk
 Miami bass
o Nu skool breaks
 Disco
o Afro/Cosmic
o Disco polo
o Euro disco
o Italo disco
o Nu-disco
o Space disco
 Downtempo
o Acid jazz
o Chill-out
o New-age
 Space
o Trip hop
 Drum and bass
o Liquid funk
o Neurofunk
 Neurohop
o Jump-up
o Darkstep
o Drumstep
o Funkstep
o Hardstep
o Sambass
o Techstep
 Dub
o Ambient dub
o Dancehall
o Dub poetry
o Dub reggae
o Dub techno
o Dubstep
o Dubtronica
 Electro
o Freestyle
o Electro-industrial
o Electroacoustic
 Acousmatic
 Musique concrète
o Modular
 Electronic dance music
 Electronic rock
o Alternative dance
 Indietronica
o Coldwave
o Dance-punk
o Dark wave
 o Electroclash
o Electronicore
 Nintendocore
o Electropunk
o Ethereal wave
o Krautrock
o Minimal wave
o New rave
o Nu-gaze
o Space rock
o Synthpop
 Electronica
o Dubtronica
o Folktronica
o Funktronica
o Laptronica
o Livetronica
 Ethnic electronica
o Al Jeel
o Arabic pop
o Asian underground
o Bhangra
 Bhangragga
o C-pop
 Cantopop
o J-pop
 City pop
 Shibuya-kei
o K-pop
o Worldbeat
 Hardcore
o Gabber
o 4-beat
o Breakbeat hardcore
o Bouncy techno
o Breakcore
o Hardbass
o Digital hardcore
o Darkcore
o Happy hardcore
o Mákina
o Speedcore
 Splittercore
 Extratone
o UK hardcore
 Hardstyle
o Dubstyle
o Jumpstyle
o Lento violento
 Hi-NRG
o Eurobeat
o Eurodance
 Bubblegum dance
 Hard dance
 Italo dance
 Hip hop
o Breakbeat
o Crunk
o Electro
o Hip house
o Trap
 Trap EDM
o Drill
 UK drill
 House (see below)
 Industrial
o Aggrotech
o Electrogrind
o Electro-industrial
o Dark ambient
o Dark electro
o Electronic body
 Futurepop
 New beat
o Industrial metal
o Industrial rock
o Japanoise
o Neue Deutsche Härte
o Power electronics
 Death industrial
o Power noise
 Intelligent dance
o Glitch
 Glitch Hop
o Wonky
 Oldschool jungle
o Darkcore
o Ragga jungle
o Raggacore
 Post-disco
o Boogie
o Electropop
 Chillwave
 Vaporwave
 Hardvapour
o Dance-pop
o Dance-rock
 Techno
 o Acid techno
o Detroit techno
o Dub techno
o Hardtechno
o Industrial techno
o Minimal techno
o New beat
o Nortec
o Tecno brega
 Trance
o Acid trance
o Balearic trance
o Dream trance
o Euro-trance
o Hard trance
o Nitzhonot
o Psychedelic trance
 Full on
 Suomisaundi
o Goa trance
o Progressive trance
o Tech trance
o Uplifting trance
o Vocal trance
 UK garage
o 2-step garage
 Dubstep
 Brostep
 Drumstep
 Reggaestep
o Breakstep
o Future garage
o Grime
 UK drill
 Grindie
o Speed garage
 Bassline
o UK funky
o Nightcore
House[edit]
Further information: House music
 Acid house
 Ambient house
 Balearic beat
 Chicago house
 Deep house
 Diva house
o Hardbag
 Electro house
 o Big room house
o Complextro
o Dutch house
o Fidget house
 French house
o Nu-disco
 Funky house
 Future house
 Garage house
 Ghetto house
o Ghettotech
o Juke house
 Footwork
 Hard house
o Hard dance
 Hip house
 Italo house
 Nu jazz
 Kidandali
 Kwaito
 Latin house
 Microhouse
 Moombahton
o Moombahcore
 Progressive house
 Rara tech
 Tech house
 Tribal house
 Tropical house
 Witch house
Flamenco[edit]
Further information: Flamenco
 Toná
o Martinetes
o Tonás
 Soleás
o Bulerías
o Alegrías
o Caracoles
o Peteneras
 Fandangos
 Tango
 Cantes de ida y vuelta
Folk[edit]
Further information: Folk music
 Anti-folk
 Turbo-folk
 Celtic
 Chalga
 Filk
 Folk rock
 Folktronica
 Freak folk
 Indie folk
 Industrial folk
 Neofolk
 Progressive folk
 Protest song
 Psychedelic folk
 Singer-songwriter
 Skiffle
 Sung poetry
 Traditional Folk
 Western music
Hip hop[edit]
Further information: Hip hop music
 Alternative hip hop
 Australian hip hop
 Bongo Flava
 Boom bap
 British hip hop
 Chap hop
 Chopper
 Christian hip hop
 Cloud rap
 Conscious hip hop
 Crunk
 Crunkcore
 Drill
 Electro
 Emo hip hop
 Experimental hip hop
 G-funk
 Ghetto house
 Ghettotech
 Golden age hip hop
 Grime
 Hardcore hip hop
 Hip house
 Hiplife
 Hip pop
 Hyphy
 Industrial hip hop
 Instrumental hip hop
 Jazz rap
 Jersey club
 Kwaito
 Lyrical hip hop
 Low Bap
 Merenrap
 Motswako
 Mumble rap
 Nerdcore
 New jack swing
 New school hip hop
 Old school hip hop
 Political hip hop
 Ragga
 Reggaeton
 Snap
o Jerkin'
 Trap
 Urban Pasifika
o Emo rap
o K-rap
o J-rap
o Horrorcore

Jazz[edit]
Further information: Jazz
 Acid jazz
 Afro-Cuban jazz
 Avant-garde jazz
 Bebop
 Boogie-woogie
 Bossa nova
 British dance band
 Cape jazz
 Chamber jazz
 Continental jazz
 Cool jazz
 Crossover jazz
 Dixieland
 Ethno jazz
 European free jazz
 Free funk
 Free improvisation
 Free jazz
 Gypsy jazz
 Hard bop
 Jazz blues
 Jazz-funk
 Jazz fusion
 Jazz rap
 Jazz rock
 Kansas City blues
 Kansas City jazz
 Latin jazz
 Livetronica
 M-Base
 Mainstream jazz
 Modal jazz
 Neo-bop jazz
 Neo-swing
 Novelty ragtime
 Nu jazz
 Orchestral jazz
 Post-bop
 Progressive jazz
 Psychedelic jazz
 Punk jazz
 Ragtime
 Shibuya-kei
 Ska jazz
 Smooth jazz
 Soul jazz
 Stride jazz
 Straight-ahead jazz
 Swing
 Third stream
 Trad jazz
 Vocal jazz
 West Coast jazz
Latin[edit]
Further information: Latin music and Music of Brazil
 Axé
 Brazilian rock
 Brega
o Tecnobrega
 Choro
 Forró
 Frevo
 Funk Carioca
 Lambada
 Maracatu
 Música popular brasileira
o Tropicalia
 Música sertaneja
 Samba
o Pagode
o Samba rock
 Latin Christian
 Latin jazz
o Afro-Cuban jazz
o Bossa Nova
 Latin pop
 o Latin ballad
 Latin rock
o Latin alternative
o Rock en Español
 Reggaeton
o Latin trap
 Regional Mexican
o Banda
o Grupera
o Mariachi
 Ranchera
o Norteño
o Tejano
 Traditional
o Folk
 Turbo-folk
 Bullerengue
 Fado
 Huayno
 Mexican son
 Música criolla
 Nueva canción
 Tropical
o Bachata
o Bolero
o Criolla
o Cumbia
 Chicha
 Porro
o Guajira
o Mambo
o Merengue
o Cuban rumba
o Salsa
 Salsa romántica
o Son
o Timba
o Tropipop
o Vallenato

Pop[edit]
Further information: Pop music
 Adult contemporary
 Arabic pop
 Baroque pop
 Brill Building
 Britpop
 Bubblegum pop
 Canción
 Canzone
 Chalga
 Chanson
 Christian pop
 Classical crossover
 Country pop
 C-pop
o Hokkien pop
o Mandopop
 Dance-pop
 Disco polo
 Electropop
 Europop
o Austropop
o Eurobeat
o French pop
o Italo dance
o Italo disco
o Laïkó
o Latin pop
o Nederpop
o Russian pop
 Fado
 Folk pop
 Iranian pop
 Indie pop
 J-pop
 Jangle pop
 K-pop
o Korean rock
o T'ong guitar
o Trot
 Swamp pop
 Mexican pop
 New Romantic
 Operatic pop
o Power pop
o Soft rock
o Pop punk
 Neon pop
 Emo pop
 Pop soul
 Progressive pop
 Psychedelic pop
 Rebetiko
 Schlager
 Sophisti-pop
 Space age pop
 Sunshine pop
 Surf
 Synthpop
 Teen pop
 Traditional pop
 Turkish pop
 Vispop
 Wonky pop
 Worldbeat
R&B and soul[edit]
Further information: Rhythm and blues and Soul music
 Contemporary R&B
 Disco
 Funk
o Deep funk
 Freestyle
o Go-go
o P-Funk
o Post-disco
o Boogie
 Alternative R&B
 New jack swing
 Rhythm and blues
 Soul
o Blue-eyed soul
o Northern soul
o Neo soul
o Psychedelic Soul
o Southern soul

Rock[edit]
Further information: Rock music
 Alternative rock
o Britpop
 Post-Britpop
 Shoegaze
 Dream Pop
o Grunge
 Post-grunge
o Indie rock
 Dunedin Sound
 Math rock
 Post-punk revival
 Sadcore
 Slowcore
 Beat
 Christian rock
 Dark cabaret
 Electronic rock
o Electronicore
 Experimental rock
o Art rock
 o Industrial rock
o Post-punk
 Gothic rock
 No wave
 Noise rock
o Post-rock
 Post-metal
 Folk rock
 Garage rock
 Glam rock
 Hard rock
 Heavy metal (see below)
 Jazz rock
 New wave
o World fusion
 Paisley Underground
 Desert rock
 Pop rock
o Soft rock
 Progressive rock
o Canterbury scene
o Krautrock
o New prog
o Rock in Opposition
o Space rock
 Psychedelic rock
o Acid rock
o Freakbeat
o Neo-psychedelia
o Raga rock
 Punk rock (see below)
 Rap rock
o Rapcore
 Rock and roll
 Southern rock
 Stoner rock
 Sufi rock
 Surf rock
 Visual kei
o Nagoya kei
 Worldbeat
 Wrock
Heavy metal[edit]
Further information: Heavy metal music
 Alternative metal
 Avant-garde metal
 Black metal
o Symphonic black metal
o Viking metal
 o War metal
o National Socialist black metal
 Christian metal
o Unblack metal
 Death metal
o Death 'n' roll
o Melodic death metal
o Technical death metal
o Deathgrind
 Doom metal
o Doom metal § Black-doom
o Doom metal § Blackened death-doom
o Death-doom
 Doom metal § Funeral doom
o Drone metal
o Doom metal § Epic doom
o Doom metal § Gothic-doom
o Doom metal § Progressive doom
o Sludge metal
o Stoner rock
o Doom metal § Traditional doom
 Folk metal
o Celtic metal
o Medieval metal
o Pagan metal
 Funk metal
 Glam metal
 Gothic metal
 Pirate metal
 Grindcore
 Nintendocore
 Industrial metal
 Kawaii metal
 Latin metal
 Metalcore
o Melodic metalcore
o Deathcore
o Mathcore
 Metalstep
 Neoclassical metal
 Neue Deutsche Härte
 Nu metal
 Post-metal
 Power metal
 Progressive metal
o Djent
 Rap metal
 Sludge metal
 Speed metal
 Symphonic metal
 Thrash metal
o Crossover thrash
o Groove metal
Punk rock[edit]
Further information: Punk rock
 Anarcho punk
o Crust punk
 D-beat
 Art punk
 Christian punk
 Deathrock
 Digital hardcore
 Folk punk
o Celtic punk
o Cowpunk
o Gypsy punk
 Garage punk
 Grindcore
o Crustgrind
o Noisegrind
o Goregrind
o Pornogrind
 Hardcore punk
o Melodic hardcore
o Post-hardcore
 Emo
 Emo pop
 Screamo
o Thrashcore
o Crossover thrash
o Powerviolence
 Horror punk
 Nazi punk
 Oi!
 Pop punk
o Neon pop
 Psychobilly
 Riot grrrl
 Rock Against Communism
 Ska punk
 Skate punk
 Street punk

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 Music portal

 Lists portal
 Danger music – an experimental form of avant-
garde music based on the concept that some pieces
 of music can or will harm either the listener or the
performer
References[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
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Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg,
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Popular Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press.
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This is a list of music styles. Music can be described
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forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise
more specific sub-categories. Applicable styles are
classified in this list using AllMusic[1] genre
categorization.[2]

Contents
 1African
 2Arabic music
 3Asian
 3.1East Asian
 3.2South and southeast Asian
 4Avant-garde
 5Blues
 6Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced
 7Country
 8Easy listening
 9Electronic music
 10Folk song
 11Hip hop
 12Jazz
 13Latin
 14Pop
 15R&B and soul
 16Rock
 17Classical music
 18Other
 19References
 20External links
 21Bibliography
 22See also

African[edit]
Main article: African popular music
 African heavy metal
 African hip hop
 Afrobeat
 Afro Pop
 Afrobeats
 Amapiano
 Apala
 Benga
 Bongo flava (not a type of music rather it is a style)
 Bikutsi
 Cape Jazz
 Chimurenga
 Congolese rumba
 Coupé-Décalé
 Fuji music
 Genge
 Gqom
 Highlife
 Hiplife
 Igbo highlife
 Igbo rap
 Isicathamiya
 Jit
 Jùjú
 Kapuka aka Boomba
 Kadongo Kamu
 Kizomba
 Kuduro
 Kwaito
 Kwela
 Makossa
 Maloya
 Marrabenta
 Mbalax
 Mbaqanga
 Mbube
 Morna
 Ndombolo
 Palm-wine
 Raï
 Sakara
 Sega
 Seggae
 Semba
 Shangaan electro
 Soukous
o Kwassa kwassa
 Taarab
 Zouglou Cote D'Ivoire

Arabic music[edit]
Main article: Arabic music
Asian[edit]
Main article: Asian music
 Fann at-Tanbura
 Fijiri
 Khaliji
 Liwa
 Sawt
East Asian[edit]
 Anison
 Cantopop
 C-pop
 Enka
 Hong Kong English pop
 J-pop
 Kayōkyoku
 K-pop
 Mandopop
 Onkyokei
 P-pop
 Taiwanese pop
 V-pop
 Kawaii metal
South and southeast Asian[edit]
Main article: Music of Southeast Asia
 Baila
 Baul
 Bhangra
 Carnatic
 Garba
 Dangdut
 Filmi
 Hindustani
 Indian pop
 Lavani
 Luk Thung
o Luk Krung
 Manila Sound
o Original Pilipino Music
 V-pop
 Morlam
 Pinoy pop
 Pop sunda
 Thai pop
 Ragini
 Keroncong
 Gamelan

Avant-garde[edit]
Main article: Avant-garde music
 Experimental music
 Noise
 Lo-fi
 Musique concrète
 Electroacoustic
Blues[edit]
Main article: Blues
 African blues
 Blues rock
 Blues shouter
 British blues
 Canadian blues
 Chicago blues
 Classic female blues
 Contemporary R&B
 Country blues
 Delta blues
 Detroit blues
 Electric blues
 Funk blues
 Gospel blues
 Hill country blues
 Hokum blues
 Jump blues
 Kansas City blues
 Louisiana blues
 Memphis blues
 Piedmont blues
 Punk blues
 Rhythm and blues
 Soul blues
 St. Louis blues
 Swamp blues
 Texas blues
 West Coast blues
Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced[edit]
Main article: List of Caribbean music genres
 Baithak Gana
 Dancehall Music
 Bouyon
 Cadence-lypso
 Calypso
 Cha-cha-chá
 Chutney
o Chutney soca
o Chutney parang
 Compas
 Mambo
 Mento
 Merengue
 Méringue
 Mozambique
 Pichakaree
 Punta
 Punta rock
 Rasin
 Reggae
o Dub
 o Lovers rock
o Ragga
o Ragga jungle
o Reggae fusion
 Reggae rock
o Roots reggae
o Sunshine reggae
 Rocksteady
 Rumba
 Ska
o 2 Tone
o Ska punk
 Salsa
 Son cubano
 Songo
 Soca
 Timba
 Twoubadou
 Zouk
Country[edit]
Main article: Country music
 Alternative country
o Cowpunk
 Americana
 Australian country music
 Bakersfield sound
 Bluegrass
o Progressive bluegrass
o Reactionary bluegrass
 Country blues
 Country pop
 Country rap
 Country rock
 Cajun
o Cajun fiddle tunes
 Christian country music
 Classic country
 Close harmony
 Dansband
 Hokum
 Honky-tonk
 Instrumental country
 Nashville sound
 Neotraditional country
 New Mexico music
 Outlaw country
 Progressive country
 Red dirt
 Rockabilly
 o Hellbilly music
o Psychobilly/Punkabilly
 Sertanejo
 Tejano
 Texas country
 Traditional country music
 Truck-driving country
 Western music
 Western swing
 Zydeco
Easy listening[edit]
Main article: Easy listening
 Background music
 Beautiful music
 Elevator music
 Furniture music
 Lounge music
 Middle of the road
 New-age music
Electronic music[edit]
Main article: Electronic music
See also: List of electronic music genres
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 Ambient
o Ambient dub
o Dark ambient
 Dungeon synth
o Drone music
o Illbient
o Isolationism
o Psybient
o Space music
 Asian Underground
 Breakbeat
o Acid breaks
o Baltimore club
o Big beat
o Broken beat
o Florida breaks
 Nu-funk
 Miami bass
o Jersey club
o Nu skool breaks
 Disco
o Afro / Cosmic disco
o Disco polo
o Euro disco
o Italo disco
 o Nu-disco
o Space disco
 Downtempo
o Acid jazz
o Chill-out
o New-age music
 Space music
o Trip hop
 Drum and bass
o Liquid funk
o Neurofunk
 Neurohop
o Jump-up
o Darkstep
o Drumstep
o Funkstep
o Hardstep
o Sambass
o Techstep
 Dub
o Ambient dub
o Dancehall
o Dub poetry
o Dub reggae
o Dub techno
o Dubstep
o Dubtronica
 Electro music
o Freestyle music
 Electroacoustic music
o Acousmatic music
o Musique concrète
 Electronic dance music
 Electronic rock
o Alternative dance
 Indietronica
o Coldwave
o Dance-punk
o Dark wave
 Neoclassical dark wave
o Electroclash
o Electronicore
o Electropunk
o Ethereal wave
o Krautrock
o Minimal wave
o New rave
o Nu-gaze
o Space rock
 o Synthpop
 Electronica
o Berlin School
o Dubtronica
o Ethnic electronica
o Folktronica
o Funktronica
o Laptronica
o Livetronica
 Electro Swing
 Hardcore
o Gabba
o 4-beat
o Breakbeat hardcore
o Bouncy techno
o Breakcore
o Digital hardcore
o Darkcore
o Happy hardcore
o Mákina
o Speedcore
o UK hardcore
o Doomcore
 Hardstyle
o Dubstyle
o Jumpstyle
o Lento violento
o Hardbass
 Hi-NRG
o Eurobeat
o Eurodance
 Bubblegum dance
 Italo dance
 House music
o Acid house
o Ambient house
o Balearic beat
o Chicago house
o Deep house
 Future house
 Tropical house
o Diva house
o Electro house
 Big room house
 Complextro
 Fidget house
 Dutch house
 Moombahton
 Moombahcore
 o French house
o Funky house
o Garage house
o Ghetto house
 Ghettotech
o Hardbag
o Hard house
 Hard dance
 Hard NRG
o Hip house
o Italo house
o Jazz house
o Kidandali
o Kwaito
o Latin house
o Microhouse/Minimal house
o New beat
o Outsider house
o Progressive house
o Rara tech
o Tech house
o Tribal house
o Trival
o Witch house
 Industrial music
o Aggrotech
o Cybergrind
o Electro-industrial
o Dark electro
o Electronic body music
o Futurepop
o Industrial metal
o Industrial rock
o Japanoise
o Martial industrial
o Neue Deutsche Härte
o Power electronics
 Death industrial
o Power noise
 IDM
o Glitch
 Glitch hop
o Wonky
 Jungle
o Darkcore jungle
o Raggacore
 Post-disco
o Boogie
o Electropop
  Chillwave
 Vaporwave
o Dance-pop
o Dance-rock
 Slime Punk
 Synthwave
o Sovietwave
 Techno
o Acid techno
o Detroit techno
o Dub techno
o Free tekno
o Minimal techno
o Nortec
o Tecno brega
o Techdombe
 Trance music
o Acid trance
o Balearic trance
o Dream trance
o Euro-trance
o Hard trance
o Nitzhonot
o Psychedelic trance
 Full on
 Suomisaundi
o Goa trance
o Progressive trance
o Tech trance
o Uplifting trance
o Vocal trance
 UK garage
o 2-step garage
 Dubstep
 Brostep
 Chillstep
 Drumstep
 Reggaestep
 Trapstep
 Metalstep
 Vomitstep
o Breakstep
o Future garage
o Grime
 Grindie
o Speed garage
 Bassline/4x4 garage
o UK funky
 Vaporwave
 Video game music
o Chiptune
 Bitpop
 Game Boy music
 Shiny
 Skweee
o Nintendocore
 Splatune

Folk song[edit]
Main article: Folk music
 American folk revival
 Americana
 Anti-folk
 British folk revival
 Celtic music
 Chalga
 Contemporary folk
 Corrido
 Filk music
 Folk rock
 Folktronica
 Freak folk
 Indie folk
 Industrial folk
 Neofolk
 Mariachi
o Ranchera
 Progressive folk
 Protest song
 Psychedelic folk
 Singer-songwriter movement
 Skiffle
 Sung poetry
 Cowboy/Western music
o Red Dirt
o New Mexico
o Texas country
o Tejano

Hip hop[edit]
Main article: Hip hop music
 Alternative hip hop
 Australian hip hop
 Bongo flava
 Boom bap
 British hip hop
 Chap hop
 Chopper rap
 Christian hip hop
 Cloud rap
 Conscious hip hop
 Crunk
 Crunkcore
 Dirty rap
 Drill
 Electro music
 Emo rap
 Experimental hip hop
 G-funk
 Gangsta rap
 Ghetto house
 Ghettotech
 Golden age hip hop
 Grime
 Hardcore hip hop
 Hip house
 Hiplife
 Hip pop
 Hipster hop
 Horrorcore
 Hyphy
 Industrial hip hop
 Instrumental hip hop
 Jazz rap
 Jersey club
 Kwaito
 Lyrical hip hop
 Low Bap
 Merenrap
 Motswako
 Mumble rap
 Nerdcore
 New jack swing
 New school hip hop
 Old school hip hop
 Political hip hop
 Ragga
 Reggaeton
 Snap
o Jerkin'
 Trap
 Urban Pasifika
 West Coast hip hop

Jazz[edit]
Main article: Jazz
 Acid jazz
 Afro-Cuban jazz
 Alt-jazz
 Asian American jazz
 Avant-garde jazz
 Bebop
 Boogie-woogie
 Bossa nova
 British dance band
 Cape jazz
 Chamber jazz
 Continental jazz
 Cool jazz
 Crossover jazz
 Dixieland
 Ethno jazz
 European free jazz
 Free funk
 Free improvisation
 Free jazz
 Gypsy jazz
 Hard bop
 Jazz blues
 Jazz-funk
 Jazz fusion
 Jazz rap
 Jazz rock
 Kansas City blues
 Kansas City jazz
 Latin jazz
 Livetronica
 M-Base
 Mainstream jazz
 Modal jazz
 Neo-bop jazz
 Neo-swing
 Novelty ragtime
 Nu jazz
 Orchestral jazz
 Post-bop
 Punk jazz
 Ragtime
 Shibuya-kei
 Ska jazz
 Smooth jazz
 Soul jazz
 Stride jazz
 Straight-ahead jazz
 Swing
 Third stream
 Trad jazz
 Vocal jazz
 West Coast jazz
 Latin[edit]
Main article: Latin music
 Brazilian
o Axé
o Brazilian rock
o Brega
 Tecnobrega
o Choro
o Forró
o Frevo
o Funk carioca
o Lambada
 Zouk-Lambada
o Maracatu
o Música popular brasileira
 Tropicalia
o Música sertaneja
o New Mexico music
o Samba
 Pagode
 Samba rock
 Boogaloo
 Latin Christian
 Latin jazz
o Afro-Cuban jazz
o Bossa Nova
 Latin pop
o Latin ballad
 Latin swing
 Latin rock
o Latin alternative
o Rock en Español
 Reggaeton
o Latin trap
 Regional Mexican
o Banda
o Norteño
 Traditional:
o Flamenco
o Tango
o Folk
 Bullerengue
 Fado
 Grupera
 Huayno
 Mariachi
 Ranchera
 Mexican son
 Música criolla
 Nueva canción

 Tropical
o Bachata
o Bolero
o Criolla
o Cumbia
 Chicha
 Porro
o Guajira
o Mambo
o Merengue
o Rumba
o Salsa
 Salsa romántica
o Son
o Tejano
o Timba
o Tropipop
o Vallenato

Pop[edit]
Main article: Pop music
 Adult contemporary
 Arab pop
 Baroque pop
 Brill Building
 Britpop
 Bubblegum pop
 Canción
 Canzone
 Chalga
 Chanson
 Christian pop
 Classical crossover
 Country pop
 C-pop (Chinese popular music)
o Hokkien pop
o Mandopop
 Cringe pop
 Dance-pop
 Disco polo
 Electropop
 Europop
o Austropop
o Eurobeat
o French pop
o Italo dance
o Italo disco
o Laïkó
o Latin pop
 o Nederpop
o Russian pop
 Fado
 Folk pop
 Iranian pop
 Indie pop
o Twee pop
 J-pop (Japanese popular music)
 Jangle pop
 K-pop (Korean popular music)
o Korean hip hop
o Korean rock
o T'ong guitar
o Trot
 Latin ballad
 Louisiana swamp pop
 Mexican pop
 New Romantic
 Operatic pop
 Pop rap
 Pop rock
o Power pop
o Soft rock
o Pop punk
 Neon pop
 Emo pop
 Pop soul
 Progressive pop
 Psychedelic pop
 Rebetiko
 Schlager
 Sophisti-pop
 Space age pop
 Sunshine pop
 Surf pop
 Synthpop
 Teen pop
 Traditional pop music
 Turkish pop
 Vispop
 Wonky pop
 Worldbeat
R&B and soul[edit]
Main articles: Rhythm and blues and Soul music
 Contemporary R&B
 Disco
 Funk
o Deep funk
o Minneapolis Sound
 Freestyle music
o Go-go
 Hip hop soul
o P-Funk
o Post-disco
o Boogie
 PBR&B
 Gospel music
 New jack swing
 Rhythm and blues
 Soul
o Blue-eyed soul
o Hip hop soul
o Northern soul
o Neo soul
o Southern soul

Rock[edit]
Main article: Rock music
 Alternative rock
o Dream pop
 Shoegaze
 Blackgaze
o Grunge
 Post-grunge
 Ocean Grunge
o Indie rock
 Dunedin sound
 Math rock
 Post-punk revival
o Sadcore
o Slowcore
 Beat music
 Christian rock
 Dark cabaret
 Electronic rock
o Electronicore
 Experimental rock
o Art rock
o Industrial rock
o Post-punk
 Gothic rock
 No wave
 Noise rock
o Post-rock
 Post-metal
 Folk rock
 Garage rock
 Glam rock
 Hard rock
 Heavy metal
o Alternative metal
 Funk Metal
 Nu Metal
 Rap Metal
o Avant-garde metal
o Blackened death metal
o Black metal
 Ambient Black Metal
 Atmospheric Black Metal
 Blackgaze
 Depressive Black Metal
 Melodic Black Metal
 National Socialist Black Metal
 Symphonic black metal
 Viking metal
 War metal
o Christian metal
 Unblack metal
o Death metal
 Death 'n' roll
 Melodic death metal
 Technical death metal
 Deathgrind
 pornoclassique
o Doom metal
 Death-doom
o Drone metal
o Folk metal
 Celtic metal
 Medieval metal
 Pagan metal
o Glam metal
o Gothic metal
o Industrial metal
o Kawaii metal
o Latin metal
o Metalcore
 Melodic metalcore
 Deathcore
 Mathcore
o Metalstep
o Neoclassical metal
o Neue Deutsche Härte
o Post-metal
o Power metal
o Progressive metal
 Djent
o Sludge metal
 o Speed metal
o Symphonic metal
o Thrash metal
 Crossover thrash
 Groove metal
 Jazz rock
 New wave
o World fusion
 Paisley Underground
 Desert rock
 Pop rock
o Soft rock
 Progressive rock
o Canterbury scene
o Krautrock
o Neo-progressive rock
o New prog
o Rock in Opposition
o Space rock
 Psychedelic rock
o Acid rock
o Freakbeat
o Neo-psychedelia
o Raga rock
 Punk rock
o Anarcho punk
 Crust punk
 D-beat
o Art punk
o Christian punk
o Deathrock
o Digital hardcore
o Folk punk
 Celtic punk
 Cowpunk
 Gypsy punk
o Garage punk
o Grindcore
 Crustgrind
 Noisegrind
 Goregrind
o Hardcore punk
 Crossover thrash
 Melodic hardcore
 Post-hardcore
 Emo
 Emo pop
 Screamo
 Powerviolence
  Street punk
 Thrashcore
o Horror punk
o Pop punk
 Neon pop
o Nazi punk
o Psychobilly
o Riot grrrl
o Ska punk
o Skate punk
 Rap rock
o Rapcore
 Reggae rock
 Rockjazz
 Rock and roll
 Southern rock
 Stoner rock
 Sufi rock
 Surf rock
 Visual kei
o Nagoya kei
 Worldbeat
Classical music[edit]
Main article: Classical music
 Ancient music
 Early music
o Medieval music (500–1400)
 ars antiqua (1170–1310)
 ars nova (1310–1377)
 ars subtilior (1360–1420)
o Renaissance music (1400–1600) eras.
o Baroque music (1600–1750)
o galant music (1720s–1770s)
 Common-practice period
o Baroque music (1600–1750)
o galant music (1720s–1770s)
o Classical period (music) (1750–1820)
o Romantic music (c.1780–1910)
 20th and 21st centuries (1901–present):
o Modernism (music) (1890–1930)
o Impressionism in music (1875 or 1890–1925)
o Neoclassicism (music) (1920–1950)
o high modernism (1930–present)
o postmodern music (1930–present) eras
o Experimental music (1950–present)
o Contemporary classical music (1945 or 1975–
present)
Other[edit]
 Dance music
 Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or
similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game
music, music hall songs and showtunes
 Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and
others
 Religious music: Gregorian
chant, spirituals, hymns and the like
 Occasional music: Military music, marches, national
anthems and related compositions
 Regional and national music with no significant
commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version
of an international genre, such as: traditional
music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work
songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous
music. In North America and Western Europe,
regional and national genres that are not from the
Western world are sometimes classified as world
music.
These categories are not exhaustive. A music platform,
Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres
(included by those created by ordinary music lovers,
who are not involved within the music industry, these
being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy
created by non-experts). Most of these genres were
created by music labels to target new audiences,
however classification is useful to find music and
distribute it.
References[edit]
1. ^ [1] Allmusic website
2. ^ "Definition of "popular music" | Collins English
Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved November
5, 2017.

External links[edit]
 Genres of popular music - Interactive relationships
diagram
Bibliography[edit]
 Borthwick, Stuart, & Moy, Ron (2004) Popular Music
Genres: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press.
 Fabbri, Franco (1982) A Theory of Popular Music
Genres: Two Applications. In Popular Music
Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg,
52-81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd.
 Frith, Simon (1996) Performing Rites: On the Value of
Popular Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press.
  Holt, Fabian (2007) Genre in Popular Music. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
 Negus, Keith (1999) Music Genres and Corporate
Cultures. London and New York: Routledge.
See also[edit]

 Lists portal
 Music portal
 Genealogy of musical genres
This list is split into four separate pages:
 List of styles of music: A–F
 List of styles of music: G–M
 List of styles of music: N–R
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LIST OF TYPE OF MUSIC | MUSIC GENRES

 Alternative
o Art Punk
o Alternative Rock
o Britpunk
o College Rock
o Crossover Thrash (thx Kevin G)
o Crust Punk (thx Haug)
o Emotional Hardcore (emo / emocore) – (Thanks Timothy)
o Experimental Rock
o Folk Punk
o Goth / Gothic Rock
o Grunge
 o Hardcore Punk
o Hard Rock
o Indie Rock
o Lo-fi (hat tip to Ben Vee Bedlamite)
o Musique Concrète
o New Wave
o Progressive Rock
o Punk
o Shoegaze (with thx to Jackie Herrera)
o Steampunk (with thx to Christopher Schaeffer)
 Anime
 Blues

o Acoustic Blues
o African Blues
o Blues Rock
o Blues Shouter
o British Blues
o Canadian Blues
o Chicago Blues
o Classic Blues
o Classic Female Blues
o Contemporary Blues
o Contemporary R&B
o Country Blues
o Delta Blues
o Detroit Blues
o Electric Blues
o Folk Blues
o Gospel Blues
o Harmonica Blues
o Hill Country Blues
o Hokum Blues
o Jazz Blues
o Jump Blues
o Kansas City Blues
o Louisiana Blues
o Memphis Blues
o Modern Blues
o New Orlean Blues
o NY Blues
o Piano Blues
o Piedmont Blues
o Punk Blues
o Ragtime Blues (cheers GFS)
o Rhythm Blues
o Soul Blues
o St. Louis Blues
o Soul Blues
o Swamp Blues
o Texas Blues
o Urban Blues
o Vandeville
o West Coast Blues
 o Zydeco (thx Naomi McElynn – also under ‘World’ genre)

 Children’s Music

 Lullabies
 Sing-Along
 Stories

 Classical

 Avant-Garde
 Ballet
 Baroque
 Cantata
 Chamber Music

 String Quartet

 Chant
 Choral
 Classical Crossover
 Concerto
 Concerto Grosso
 Contemporary Classical (thx Julien Palliere)
 Early Music
 Expressionist (thx Mr. Palliere)
 High Classical
 Impressionist
 Mass Requiem
 Medieval
 Minimalism
 Modern Composition
 Modern Classical
 Opera
 Oratorio
 Orchestral
 Organum
 Renaissance
 Romantic (early period)
 Romantic (later period)
 Sonata
 Symphonic
 Symphony
 Wedding Music

 Comedy

 Novelty
 Parody Music (Weird Al!)
 Stand-up Comedy
 Vaudeville (cheers Ben Vee Bedlamite)
 Commercial (thank you Sheldon Reynolds)

 Jingles
 TV Themes

 Country

 Alternative Country
 Americana
 Australian Country
 Bakersfield Sound
 Bluegrass

 Progressive Bluegrass
 Reactionary Bluegrass

 Blues Country
 Cajun Fiddle Tunes
 Christian Country
 Classic Country
 Close Harmony
 Contemporary Bluegrass
 Contemporary Country
 Country Gospel
 Country Pop (thanks Sarah Johnson)
 Country Rap
 Country Rock
 Country Soul
 Cowboy / Western
 Cowpunk
 Dansband
 Honky Tonk
 Franco-Country
 Gulf and Western
 Hellbilly Music
 Honky Tonk
 Instrumental Country
 Lubbock Sound
 Nashville Sound
 Neotraditional Country
 Outlaw Country
 Progressive
 Psychobilly / Punkabilly
 Red Dirt
 Sertanejo
 Texas County
 Traditional Bluegrass
 Traditional Country
 Truck-Driving Country
 Urban Cowboy
 Western Swing
 Zydeco
 Dance (EDM – Electronic Dance Music – see Electronic below – with thx to Eric Shaffer-
Whiting & Drew :-))

 Club / Club Dance (thx Luke Allfree)

 Breakcore
 Breakbeat / Breakstep

 4-Beat
 Acid Breaks
 Baltimore Club
 Big Beat
 Breakbeat Hardcore
 Broken Beat
 Florida Breaks
 Nu Skool Breaks

 Brostep (cheers Tom Berckley)

 Chillstep (thx Matt)
 Deep House (cheers Venus Pang)
 Dubstep
 Electro House (thx Luke Allfree)
 Electroswing
 Exercise
 Future Garage (thx Ran’dom Haug)
 Garage
 Glitch Hop (cheers Tom Berckley)
 Glitch Pop (thx Ran’dom Haug)
 Grime (thx Ran’dom Haug / Matthew H)
 Hardcore

 Bouncy House
 Bouncy Techno
 Breakcore
 Digital Hardcore
 Doomcore
 Dubstyle
 Gabber
 Happy Hardcore
 Hardstyle
 Jumpstyle
 Makina
 Speedcore
 Terrorcore
 Uk Hardcore

 Hard Dance
 Hi-NRG / Eurodance
 Horrorcore (thx Matt)
 House

 Acid House
  Chicago House
 Deep House
 Diva House
 Dutch House
 Electro House
 Freestyle House
 French House
 Funky House
 Ghetto House
 Hardbag
 Hip House
 Italo House
 Latin House
 Minimal House
 Progressive House
 Rave Music
 Swing House
 Tech HouseTribal House
 UK Hard House
 US Garage
 Vocal House

 Jackin House (with thx to Jermaine Benjamin Dale Bruce)

 Jungle / Drum’n’bass
 Liquid Dub(thx Ran’dom Haug)
 Regstep (thanks to ‘Melia G)
 Speedcore (cheers Matt)
 Techno

 Acid Techno
 Detroit Techno
 Free Tekno
 Ghettotech
 Minimal
 Nortec
 Schranz
 Techno-Dnb
 Technopop
 Tecno Brega
 Toytown Techno

 Trance

 Acid Trance
 Classic Trance
 Dream Trance
 Goa Trance

 Dark Psytrance
 Full on
 Psybreaks
 Psyprog
 Suomisaundi

 Hard Trance
  Tech Trance
 Uplifting Trance

 Orchestral Uplifting

 Vocal Trance

 Trap (thx Luke Allfree)

 Disney
 Easy Listening

 Background
 Bop
 Elevator
 Furniture
 Lounge
 Middle of the Road
 Swing

 Electronic

 2-Step (thx Ran’dom Haug)

 8bit – aka 8-bit, Bitpop and Chiptune  – (thx Marcel Borchert)
 Ambient

 Ambient Dub
 Ambient House
 Ambient Techno
 Dark Ambient
 Drone Music
 Illbient
 Isolationism
 Lowercase

 Asian Underground
 Bassline (thx Leon Oliver)
 Chillwave(thx Ran’dom Haug)
 Chiptune (kudos to Dominik Landahl)

 Bitpop
 Game Boy
 Nintendocore
 Video Game Music
 Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass

 Crunk (with thx to Jillian Edwards)

 Downtempo
 Acid Jazz
 Balearic Beat
 Chill Out
 Dub Music
 Dubtronica
 Ethnic Electronica
  Moombahton
 Nu Jazz
 Trip Hop
 Drum & Bass (thx Luke Allfree)

 Darkcore
 Darkstep
 Drumfunk
 Drumstep
 Hardstep
 Intelligent Drum and Bass
 Jump-Up
 Liquid Funk
 Neurofunk
 Oldschool Jungle:

 Darkside Jungle
 Ragga Jungle

 Raggacore
 Sambass
 Techstep

 Electro

 Crunk
 Electro Backbeat
 Electro-Grime
 Electropop

 Electro-swing (thank you Daniel Forthofer)

 Electroacoustic

 Acousmatic Music
 Computer Music
 Electroacoustic Improvisation
 Field Recording
 Live Coding
 Live Electronics
 Soundscape Composition
 Tape Music

 Electronica

 Berlin School
 Chillwave
 Electronic Art Music
 Electronic Dance Music
 Folktronica
 Freestyle Music
 Glitch
  Idm
 Laptronica
 Skweee
 Sound Art
 Synthcore

 Electronic Rock

 Alternative Dance

 Baggy
 Madchester

 Dance-Punk
 Dance-Rock
 Dark Wave
 Electroclash
 Electronicore
 Electropunk
 Ethereal Wave
 Indietronica
 New Rave
 Space Rock
 Synthpop
 Synthpunk

 Eurodance

 Bubblegum Dance
 Italo Dance
 Turbofolk

 Hardstyle (kudos to Dominik Landahl)

 Hi-Nrg

 Eurobeat
 Hard Nrg
 New Beat

 IDM/Experimental
 Industrial
 Trip Hop (thank you Michael Tait Tafoya)
 UK Garage

 2-Step
 4×4
 Bassline
 Grime
 Speed Garage

 Enka
 French Pop
 Folk Music (also under various other categories)
  American Folk Revival
 Anti-Folk
 British Folk Revival
 Contemporary Folk
 Filk Music
 Freak Folk
 Indie Folk
 Industrial Folk
 Neofolk
 Progressive Folk
 Psychedelic Folk
 Sung Poetry
 Techno-Folk

 German Folk
 German Pop
 Fitness & Workout
 Hip-Hop/Rap

 Alternative Rap
 Avant-Garde
 Bounce
 Chap Hop
 Christian Hip Hop
 Conscious Hip Hop
 Country-Rap
 Crunkcore
 Cumbia Rap
 Dirty South
 East Coast

 Brick City Club

 Hardcore Hip Hop
 Mafioso Rap
 New Jersey Hip Hop

 Freestyle Rap
 G-Funk
 Gangsta Rap
 Golden Age
 Hardcore Rap
 Hip-Hop
 Hip Pop
 Hyphy
 Industrial Hip Hop
 Instrumental Hip Hop
 Jazz Rap
 Latin Rap
 Low Bap
 Lyrical Hip Hop
 Merenrap
  Midwest Hip Hop

 Chicago Hip Hop

 Detroit Hip Hop
 Horrorcore
 St. Louis Hip Hop
 Twin Cities Hip Hop

 Motswako
 Nerdcore
 New Jack Swing
 New School Hip Hop
 Old School Rap
 Rap
 Turntablism (thank you Luke Allfree)
 Underground Rap
 West Coast Rap

 Holiday

 Chanukah
 Christmas
 Christmas: Children’s
 Christmas: Classic
 Christmas: Classical
 Christmas: Comedy
 Christmas: Jazz
 Christmas: Modern
 Christmas: Pop
 Christmas: R&B
 Christmas: Religious
 Christmas: Rock
 Easter
 Halloween
 Holiday: Other
 Thanksgiving

 Indie Pop
 Industrial

 Aggrotech
 Coldwave
 Cybergrind
 Dark Electro
 Death Industrial
 Electro-Industrial
 Electronic Body Music

 Futurepop

 Industrial Metal

 Neue Deutsche Härte

  Industrial Rock
 Noise

 Japanoise
 Power Electronics
 Power Noise

 Witch House

 Inspirational – Christian & Gospel

 CCM
 Christian Metal
 Christian Pop
 Christian Rap
 Christian Rock
 Classic Christian
 Contemporary Gospel
 Gospel
 Christian & Gospel
 Praise & Worship
 Qawwali (with thx to Jillian Edwards)
 Southern Gospel
 Traditional Gospel

 Instrumental

 March (Marching Band)

 J-Pop (also under ‘Asian’)

 J-Rock
 J-Synth
 J-Ska
 J-Punk

 Jazz

 Acid Jazz (with thx to Hunter Nelson)

 Avant-Garde Jazz
 Bebop (thx Mwinogo1)
 Big Band
 Blue Note (with thx to Jillian Edwards)
 Contemporary Jazz
 Cool
 Crossover Jazz
 Dixieland
 Ethio-jazz (with thx to Jillian Edwards)
 Fusion
 Gypsy Jazz (kudos to Mike Tait Tafoya)
 Hard Bop
 Latin Jazz
 Mainstream Jazz
 Ragtime
  Smooth Jazz
 Trad Jazz

 K-Pop (also under ‘Asian’)

 Karaoke
 Kayokyoku
 Latin

 Alternativo & Rock Latino

 Argentine tango (gracias P. Moth & Sandra Sanders)
 Bachata
 Baithak Gana
 Baladas y Boleros
 Bolero
 Bossa Nova (with thx to Marcos José Sant’Anna Magalhães & Alex Ede for the
reclassification)
 Brazilian

 Axé
 Bossa Nova
 Brazilian Rock
 Brega
 Choro
 Forró
 Frevo
 Funk Carioca
 Lambada
 Maracatu
 Música Popular Brasileira
 Música Sertaneja
 Pagode
 Samba
 Samba Rock
 Tecnobrega
 Tropicalia
 Zouk-Lambada

 Chicha
 Criolla
 Contemporary Latin
 Cumbia (gracias Richard Kemp)
 Flamenco / Spanish Flamenco (thank you Michael Tait Tafoya & Sandra Sanders)
 Huayno
 Latin Jazz
 Mariachi
 Nuevo Flamenco (and again Michael Tafoya)
 Pop Latino
 Portuguese fado (and again Sandra Sanders)
 Punta
 Punta Rock
 Ranchera
  Raíces
 Raison
 Reggaeton y Hip-Hop
 Regional Mexicano
 Salsa y Tropical
 Soca
 Son
 Tejano
 Timba
 Twoubadou
 Zouk

 New Age

 Environmental
 Healing
 Meditation
 Nature
 Relaxation
 Travel

 Opera
 Pop

 Adult Contemporary
 Arab Pop
 Baroque
 Britpop
 Bubblegum Pop (thx Haug & John Maher)
 Chamber Pop (thx Haug)
 Chanson
 Christian Pop
 Classical Crossover
 Europop

 Austropop
 Balkan Pop
 French Pop
 Latin Pop
 Laïkó
 Nederpop
 Russian Pop

 Dance Pop
 Dream Pop (thx Haug)
 Electro Pop (thx Haug)
 Iranian Pop
 Jangle Pop
 Latin Ballad
 Levenslied
 Louisiana Swamp Pop
 Mexican Pop
 Motorpop
 New Romanticism
  Orchestral Pop (thx Haug)
 Pop Rap
 Popera
 Pop/Rock
 Pop Punk (thx Makenzie)
 Power Pop (thx Haug)
 Psychedelic Pop
 Schlager
 Soft Rock
 Sophisti-Pop
 Space Age Pop
 Sunshine Pop
 Surf Pop
 Synthpop (thx Haug)
 Teen Pop
 Traditional Pop Music
 Turkish Pop
 Vispop
 Wonky Pop

 Post-Disco

 Boogie
 Dance-pop

 Progressive

 Progressive House / Trance

 Disco House
 Dream House
 Space House

 Progressive Breaks
 Progressive Drum & Bass
 Progressive Techno

 R&B/Soul

 Contemporary R&B
 Disco (not a top level genre Sheldon Reynolds!)
 Doo Wop
 Funk
 Modern Soul (Cheers Nik)
 Motown
 Neo-Soul
 Northern Soul (Cheers Nik & John Maher)
 Psychedelic Soul (thank you John Maher)
 Quiet Storm
 Soul
 Soul Blues (Cheers Nik)
 Southern Soul (Cheers Nik)

 Reggae
  2-Tone (thx GFS)
 Dancehall
 Dub
 Roots Reggae
 Reggae Fusion
 Reggae en Español

 Spanish Reggae
 Reggae 110
 Reggae Bultrón
 Romantic Flow

 Lovers Rock
 Raggamuffin

 Ragga
 Dancehall

 Ska

 2 Tone
 Dub
 Rocksteady

 Rock

 Acid Rock (with thanks to Alex Antonio)

 Adult-Oriented Rock (thanks to John Maher)
 Afro Punk
 Adult Alternative
 Alternative Rock (thx Caleb Browning)
 American Traditional Rock
 Anatolian Rock
 Arena Rock
 Art Rock
 Blues-Rock
 British Invasion
 Cock Rock
 Death Metal / Black Metal
 Doom Metal (thx Kevin G)
 Glam Rock
 Gothic Metal (fits here Sam DeRenzis – thx)
 Grind Core
 Hair Metal
 Hard Rock
 Math Metal (cheers Kevin)
 Math Rock (thx Ran’dom Haug)
 Metal
 Metal Core (thx Ran’dom Haug)
 Noise Rock (genre – Japanoise – thx Dominik Landahl)
 Jam Bands
  Post Punk (thx Ben Vee Bedlamite)
 Prog-Rock/Art Rock
 Progressive Metal (thx Ran’dom Haug)
 Psychedelic
 Rock & Roll
 Rockabilly (it’s here Mark Murdock!)
 Roots Rock
 Singer/Songwriter
 Southern Rock
 Spazzcore (thx Haug)
 Stoner Metal (duuuude)
 Surf
 Technical Death Metal (cheers Pierre)
 Tex-Mex
 Thrash Metal (thanks to Pierre A)
 Time Lord Rock (Trock) ~ (thanks to ‘Melia G)
 Trip-hop (Ta Will)

 Singer/Songwriter

 Alternative Folk
 Contemporary Folk
 Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
 Indie Folk (with thanks to Andrew Barrett)
 Folk-Rock
 Love Song (Chanson – merci Marcel Borchert)
 New Acoustic
 Traditional Folk

 Soundtrack

 Foreign Cinema
 Movie Soundtrack (thanks Julien)
 Musicals
 Original Score
 Soundtrack
 TV Soundtrack

 Spoken Word
 Tex-Mex / Tejano (with thx to Israel Lopez)

 Chicano
 Classic
 Conjunto
 Conjunto Progressive
 New Mex
 Tex-Mex

 Vocal

 A cappella (with kudos to Sheldon Reynolds)

 Barbershop (with thx to Kelly Chism)
 Cantique (sacred vocal)
 Doo-wop (with thx to Bradley Thompson)
  Gregorian Chant (hat tip to Deborah Knight-Nikifortchuk)
 Standards
 Traditional Pop
 Vocal Jazz
 Vocal Pop

 World

 Africa

 African Heavy Metal

 African Hip Hop
 Afro-Beat
 Afro-Pop
 Apala
 Benga
 Bikutsi
 Bongo Flava
 Cape Jazz
 Chimurenga
 Coupé-Décalé
 Fuji Music
 Genge
 Highlife
 Hiplife
 Isicathamiya
 Jit
 Jùjú
 Kapuka
 Kizomba
 Kuduro
 Kwaito
 Kwela
 Makossa
 Maloya
 Marrabenta
 Mbalax
 Mbaqanga
 Mbube
 Morna
 Museve
 Palm-Wine
 Raï
 Sakara
 Sega
 Seggae
 Semba
 Soukous
 Taarab
 Zouglou

 Asia
 Anison
 C-Pop
 Cantopop
  Enka
 Hong Kong English Pop
 Fann At-Tanbura
 Fijiri
 J-Pop
 Japanese Pop
 K-Pop
 Khaliji
 Kayōkyoku
 Korean Pop
 Liwa
 Mandopop
 Onkyokei
 Taiwanese Pop
 Sawt
 Australia
 Cajun
 Calypso (thx Gerald John)
 Caribbean

 Chutney
 Chutney Soca
 Compas
 Mambo
 Merengue
 Méringue

 Carnatic (Karnataka Sanghetha – thx Abhijith)

 Celtic
 Celtic Folk
 Contemporary Celtic
 Coupé-décalé (thx Samy) – Congo
 Dangdut (thank you Achmad Ivanny)
 Drinking Songs
 Drone (with thx to Robert Conrod)
 Europe
 France
 Hawaii
 Japan
 Klezmer
 Mbalax (thank you Samy) – Senegal
 Middle East
 North America
 Ode (thank you Sheldon Reynolds)
 Piphat (cheers Samy B) – Thailand
 Polka
 Soca (thx Gerald John)
 South Africa
 South America
 South / Southeast Asia
  Baila
 Bhangra
 Bhojpuri
 Dangdut
 Filmi
 Indian Pop
 Hindustani (thank you Abhijith)
 Indian Ghazal (thank you Gitika Thakur)
 Lavani
 Luk Thung
 Luk Krung
 Manila Sound
 Morlam
 Pinoy Pop
 Pop Sunda
 Ragini
 Thai Pop

 Traditional Celtic
 Worldbeat
 Zydeco

Different types of music genres

2009-2019 Music Genres List
Thank you for over 10 years of musical genre shenanigans!

250 comments for “Music Genres List”

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Rod

March 20, 2016 at 11:26 pm

Music that never goes out of style, CLASICCAL MUSIC!!!

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rod

April 3, 2019 at 9:29 am

ok

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Jenna Braun (not my real name)

April 4, 2019 at 10:04 pm

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I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A HUMAN BEING TO SPELL
CLASSICAL WRONG BUT I GUESS I WAS SO SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WRONG ABOUT THAT!!!!!

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Jocelyn Billington

May 8, 2019 at 5:24 pm

I know…Riiight?? This list is crazy. Way too long. Ridiculous.

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Eraina

June 24, 2019 at 3:15 pm

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I love the sound of Classical music. I often listen to “Soft Rock”, “Pop, R&B and
HipHop.”

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ss

September 26, 2019 at 2:35 pm

classical music is crusty

word

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Timothy Mathers

March 30, 2016 at 3:29 pm

Great list but you could include Britpunk, Hardcore Punk and emo in the rock
section.

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admin

February 23, 2019 at 5:24 pm

Added in alt / punk – thanks!

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Rolo Weston

March 7, 2019 at 4:47 pm

Missing several very popular styles of music under Latin Category, all of these have
become popular throughout the region, some of them exported and heard in concerts
in Europe and Asia:
– Vallenato (from Colombia)
– Joropo: (this is the most popular style in Venezuela, and also in the llanos (plains)
of Colombia
– Danzón: (from Cuba)
– Mambo: (from Cuba, it also represents the origins of salsa music
– Merengue: a dancing style originating in the Dom Republic but exported all over
the world. More popular than Bachata (already in your list)