List of music genres and styles

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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

Popular

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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

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Country

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Main article: Country music

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See also: List of country genres

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This is a list of music subgenres of country music.

Easy listening

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Main article: Easy listening

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Electronic

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Main article: Electronic music

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

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This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology.[1] Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.[2]

In its early development electronic music was associated almost exclusively with Western art music, but from the late 1960s on the availability of affordable music technology, particularly of synthesisers, meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domain of rock and pop music, resulting in major electronically based subgenres.[3] After the definition of MIDI in 1982 and the development of digital audio, the creation of purely electronic sounds and their manipulation became much simpler.[4] As a result, synthesizers came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s.[5] In the late 1980s, dance music records made using only electronic instruments became increasingly popular, resulting in a proliferation of electronic genres, subgenres and scenes.[6] In the new millennium, as computer technology became even more accessible and music software advanced, interacting with music production technology made it possible to create music that has no relationship to traditional musical performance practices, leading to further developments and rapidly evolving subgenres.[7]

Genres

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See also

Notes

  1. ↑ T. B. Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002), ISBN 0-415-93643-8, p. 6.
  2. ↑ T. B. Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002), ISBN 0-415-93643-8, p. 8.
  3. ↑ T. B. Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002), ISBN 0-415-93643-8, p. 1.
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  6. ↑ A. Verderosa, The Techno Primer: The Essential Reference for Loop-Based Music Styles (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002), ISBN 0634017888, pp. 18-19.
  7. ↑ S. Emmerson, Living Electronic Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), ISBN 0-7546-5548-2, pp. 111-13.

Folk

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Main articles: Folk music and Contemporary folk

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Hip hop

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Main article: Hip hop music

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See also: List of hip hop genres

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Hip hop music can be subdivided into various subgenres, fusions with other genres, and regional hip hop scenes.

Historical time periods

Derived styles

1Genres of hip hop that are connected with rave culture
2Mix of pop, hip hop, soul, rhythm and blues, and gospel
3subgenre of contemporary R&B and mix of hip hop and soul
4Mix of Electronicore and hip hop
5Mix of hip hop and traditional Caribbean or Polynesian genres
6Combination of hip hop with stylistic elements from the Chappist or steampunk subcultures and stereotypical English obsessions such as cricket, tea and the weather.

United States regional scenes

American hip hop regional scenes and genres that came from them.

World scenes

World genres influenced by hip hop

See also

Jazz

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Main article: Jazz

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See also: List of jazz genres

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Pop

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Main article: Pop music

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See also: Styles of pop music

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R&B & soul

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Main article: Rhythm and blues

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Rock

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Main article: Rock music

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See also: List of rock genres

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Metal

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Main article: Metal music

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See also: Heavy metal genres

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Punk

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Main article: Punk rock

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See also: Punk rock subgenres

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Regional

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See also: List of cultural and regional genres of music

African

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Antarctica

Asian

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Main articles: Music of Asia and Music of Southeast Asia

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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

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Main article: Middle Eastern music

Australasia & Oceania

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

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See also: List of Latin music subgenres and Reggae genres

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Brazilian
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Main article: Music of Brazil
Caribbean
Hispanic

North American

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Religious

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Main article: Religious music

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Traditional folk

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Main article: Folk music

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See also: List of folk music traditions

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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

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.

External links

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