List of music genres and styles

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.

Popular music
Timeline of musical events
List of popular music genres

Classical
Main article: Popular music

Avant-garde & Experimental
Main articles: Avant-garde music and experimental music

Blues
Main article: Blues

Country
Main article: Country music

Easy Listening
Main article: Easy listening

Electronic
Main article: Electronic music
See also: List of electronic music genres

Folk
Main articles: Folk music and Contemporary folk

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

Jazz
Main article: Jazz

Pop
Main article: Pop music

R&B & Soul
Main article: Rhythm and blues

Rock
Main article: Rock music

Metal
Main article: Metal music

Punk
Main article: Punk rock

Regional

African

Antarctica
  • Nunatak (band)

Asian
Main article: Music of Asia
Central Asian

East Asian

Chinese:

Hong Kong, China:

Taiwanese:

Japanese:

Korean:

South Asian

Sri Lankan:

  • Baila
  • Sri Lankan hip hop

Southeast Asian

Malaysian:

Indonesian:

Thai:

Filipino:

Lao:

Vietnamese:

  • V-pop

Southwest Asian

Main article: Middle Eastern music

Australasia & Oceania

European

Balkan States

Baltic States

Caucasus

Central European States

Nordic/Scandinavian States

Slavic States

Western European

Latin & South American
Main article: Latin music
Brazilian
Main article: Music of Brazil

Caribbean

Hispanic

North American

Religious
Main article: Religious music

Traditional Folk
Main article: Folk music

Other

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
  • Genealogy of musical genres

This list is split into four separate pages:

Bibliography
  • 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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