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List of music genres and styles

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This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.

Classical

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See also: List of classical and art music traditions and List of classical music genres
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Main article: Popular music

Avant-garde & experimental

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Main articles: Avant-garde music and experimental music

Blues

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Main article: Blues

Country

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Main article: Country music
See also: List of country genres

Easy listening

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Main article: Easy listening

Electronic

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Main article: Electronic music
See also: List of electronic music genres, Styles of house music, and List of trance genres

Folk

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Main articles: Folk music and Contemporary folk

Hip hop

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Main article: Hip hop music
See also: List of hip hop genres

Jazz

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Main article: Jazz
See also: List of jazz genres

Pop

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Main article: Pop music
See also: Styles of pop music

R&B & soul

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Main article: Rhythm and blues

Rock

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Main article: Rock music
See also: List of rock genres

Metal

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Main article: Metal music
See also: Heavy metal genres

Punk

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Main article: Punk rock
See also: Punk rock subgenres

Regional

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See also: List of cultural and regional genres of music

African

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Antarctica

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Asian

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Main articles: Music of Asia and Music of Southeast Asia
Central Asian
East Asian

Chinese:

Hong Kong, China:

Taiwanese:

Japanese:

Korean:

South Asian

Sri Lankan:

Southeast Asian

Malaysian:

Indonesian:

Thai:

Filipino:

Lao:

Vietnamese:

Middle Eastern
Main article: Middle Eastern music

Australasia & Oceania

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European

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Balkan States
Baltic States
Caucasus
Central European States
Nordic/Scandinavian States
Slavic States
Western European

Latin & South American

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Main article: Latin music
See also: List of Latin music subgenres and Reggae genres
Brazilian
Main article: Music of Brazil
Caribbean
Hispanic

North American

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Religious

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Main article: Religious music

Traditional folk

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Main article: Folk music
See also: List of folk music traditions

Other

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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.

See also

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This list is split into four separate pages:

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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