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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.
Avant-garde & experimental
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- Central Asian
- East Asian
Chinese:
Hong Kong, China:
Taiwanese:
Japanese:
Korean:
- South Asian
- Southeast Asian
Malaysian:
Indonesian:
Thai:
Filipino:
Lao:
Vietnamese:
- Middle Eastern
Australasia & Oceania
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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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- Brazilian
- Caribbean
- Hispanic
- A cappella
- Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others
- Bedroom production
- Children’s music
- Classic hip-hop
- Computer music
- Dance music
- Drug use in music
- Incidental music or music for stage and screen: music written for the score of a film, play, musicals, or other spheres, such as filmi, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes and others
- Independent music
- LGBT music
- Patriotic music: military music, marches, national anthems, War songs 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.
- Theatre music
- Virtuoso
- Yodeling
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.
This list is split into four separate pages:
- 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.