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Music genres
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• 4-beat

A

Aa-Ad - Af-Ak - Al - Am-An - Ap-Ax

• A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing

Aa-Ad

• Aak - Korean court music
• Aaroubi - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which comes from Algiers
• Abaimajani
• Abajeños - folk music of the Perépecha of Mexico
• Aboriginal rock - rock and roll mixed with Australian aborigine music, began in 1980s
• Abstract hip hop
• Abwe
• Acoustic Rock
• Acid croft - mixture of traditional Scottish music with house influences
• Acid house - house music using simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters
• Acid groove
• Acid jazz - jazz mixed with soul, hip hop and funk
• Acid rock
• Acid techno
• Adai-adai
• Aduk-aduk
• Adult contemporary

Af-Ak

• Afoxé
• African blues
• African jazz
• Afrobeat - African rhythms mixed with American funk
• Afro-Cuban jazz - jazz mixed with merengue, salsa or other Latin forms
• Afro-Cuban rumba
• Afro-juju
• Afro-Manding blues
• Afro-reggae
• Afro-soul
• Afro-zouk
• Afroma
• Aguinaldo
• Ahouach
• Ahidus
• Air
• Akyn - Kazakh folk music made by travelling musicians also called akyn

Al

• Al-âla
  Alb-pop - Albanian pop music
  Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is partially left to chance
  Algerias
  Alomaco
  Alpine New Wave
  Alpunk
• Alternative country - reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound
• Alternative hip hop - opposite of gangsta rap, usually includes socially or politically aware lyrics (also known as alternative rap or Bohemian hip hop)
• Alternative metal - catch-all term for heavy metal mixed with punk, funk, hip hop or other influences
• Alternative rock - broad movement born in the 1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and operating outside of the mainstream

Am-An

• Amanédhes
• Ambient - atmospheric electronic music combined with jazz, New Age and other influences
• Ambient acoustic
  Ambient breakbeat
  Ambient dub
• Ambient house
  Ambient groove
  Ambient techno
  Ambient trance
  American fingerstyle guitar (American primitive guitar)
  Americana
  Anadolu rock - Turkish rock music
• Anarcho-punk - 1970s mixture of punk rock with anarchist lyrics
• Andártika
  Andean New Age - a mixture of native Peruvian and Western musics which arose in tourist areas in Lima, Cuzco and Ollantaytambo
  Angklung - Osinger and Balinese style of gamelan performed exclusively by young boys
  Angolan merengue
• Anti-folk
• Antiphonal

Ap-Ax

• Apala
  Appalachian folk - in the United States, commonly referred to as simply folk music
  Arabesk - Turkish popular music
  Areito
• Arena rock - 1970s catchy, bombastic mixture of hard rock, prog and pop music
• Argentinean rock
  Arpa grande - a style of rural Mexican folk music
  Arribeño - lyrical folk music from Sierra Gorda, Mexico
• Ars antiqua
• Ars nova
• Art metal
  Art pop
  Art punk
• Art rock
• Ashiq - Azeri bards who sing and accompany themselves on a saz (a kind of lute)
  Ashoug
  Asian Underground - British-based form of Indian and Western fusion
• Australian country music (see also Country music)
• Australian pub rock
• Australian hip hop
• Australian humour
  Australian warmetal
• Avant-garde jazz
• Avant-garde music - any kind of experimental music incorporated bizarre ideas, structures or instrumentation
  Axé - pop music from Salvador, Bahia

B

Ba - Be-Bh - Bi-Bl - Bo - Br-Bu

Bac-Bal

• Bachata
  Baião
• Bakersfield sound - gritty, hard-edged reaction against 1950s pop country (Nashville sound)
• Bakshy - Turkmen folk music made by travelling musicians also called bakshy
  Baiáo - Dance music created by a trio of triangle, bass drum and accordion
  Baila - Sri Lankan dance music derived from African slaves held by the Portuguese
  Baisha xiyue - a song and dance suite from the Naxi of Lijiang, China
  Bajourou
  Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling
  Bagad
  Bal granmoun
  Bal-musette
  Balakadri
• Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs
• Ballad calypso
  Ballata
• Ballet (music)
• Balkan music
  Balss

Bam-Bay

• Bamberas
  Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals
  Bamboula wake
  Bambuco
  Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s
  Bangsawan
  Bantowbol
  Barbarian Black Metal - exreme black metal about paganism and barbarism
  Barbershop music - extremely melodic a cappella vocal style
  Barndance
• Baroque music - 17th-18th century European classical music
• Baroque metal
  Bass music (Miami bass, Booty bass) - electro influenced form of hip hop dance music arising in Miami, Florida
• Bastard Pop
• Batá
  Batá-rumba
  Batucada
  Batuco
  Bayin - Taiwanese Hakka instrumental music

Be-Bh

• Beach music
  Beatboxing
• Bebop - 1940s jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo
• Bedoui
  Bedoui citadinisé
  Beguine (biguine)
  Beguine moderne
  Beguine vide
  Beiguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
  Bel canto - Italian vocal style which arose in the late 16th century and which ended in the mid-19th century
  Belair
  Bend-skin
  Benga
  Bhajan - a northern Hindu religious song
  Bhakti
  Bhangra - originally Punjabi dance music which became popular in the UK
  Bhangra-wine
  Bhangragga
  Bhangramuffin

Bi-Bl

• Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music
• Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences
  Big Hip
  Biguine - Martinican folk music
  Biguine moderne - Martinican biguine adapted to pop forms and including reggae and other influences
• Black metal - highly distorted and swift form of heavy metal
• Bloco afro
• Bluegrass - American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences
• Blue-eyed soul
• Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area
• Blues ballad
• Blues-rock
• Blurcore
  Big Drum Dance
  Bigono duu
• Bitpop

Bo

• Bocet
  Boi - Central Amazonian folk music
  Bolero - Spanish and Cuban dance and music
• Bomba
• Bombay pop
  Bongo - distinctive African drum and style of drumming
  Bongo wake
  Boogie rock
  Boogie woogie - style of piano-based blues popular in the 1940s US
• Boogaloo - soul and mambo fusion popular in 1960s United States
• Booty bass (Miami bass, Bass music)
• Borbangnadyr
  Borbannadir - type of Tuvan xoomii said to sound like the rapids of a river
• Border ballad
• Bossa nova
• Bouncy techno
• Boy band

Br-Bu

• Brass band
• Brass Hop
  Brazilian funk
  Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz
• Breakbeat
• Breakbeat hardcore
• Breakcore
• Bright disco
• Brill Building Pop
  Britfunk
• Britpop
• British blues
• British folk
  British Invasion
• Broadside ballad
• Brokenbeat
• Brown-eyed soul
  Broxa (brosca)
  Brukdown - rural Belizean creole music
• Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with pop music, especially that performed by teen idols; can also refer to specific styles of South African or Japanese pop
• Buiasche
  Bikutsi
• Bulerias
• Bumba-meu-boi
  Bunggul
  Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet-theater.
  Burger-highlife
• Burgundian School

C

Ca - Cc-Ce - Ch - Ci-Cl - Co - Cr-Cu

Cad-Cam

• Ca din tulnic
  Ca pe lunca
  Ca tru - (hat a dao) Vietnamese folk music
• Cabaret
• Cadence
  Cadence-lypso - guitar-dominated Cadence music combined with calypso horns
  Cadence rampa
  Café-aman
  Cai luong - Vietnamese opera
  Cajun music
  Cakewalk
  Calenda - Trinidadian drum dance
  Calentanos - folk music of the Balsas River Basin, Mexico
  Calgia - traditional urban ensemble music from Macedonia
  Calipso - Venezuelan calypso music
  Calypso - Trinidadian folk, and later pop, genre
  Calypso-style baila - Sri Lankan baila mixed with calypso influences
  Campursari - Indonesian modern folk music, a fusion of dangdut, langgam, and pop music
  Campillaneros

Can-Car

• Caña
  Candombe
  Canon
  Cante chico
  Cante jondo
  Canterbury Scene
  Cantiñas
  Cantiga - Portuguese ballad form
  Cantique
  Canto livre - Portuguese modernized fado
  Canto nuevo - Bolivian pop-folk music which evolved out of Chilean nueva cancion
  Canto popular - Uruguayan singer-songwriter nativist music
  Cantopop - western-style pop music from Hong Kong
  Canzone napoletana - urban songs from Naples
  Capoeira music
  Caracoles
  Carceleras
  Cardas
  Caribbean
  Carimbó - dance music of Belém, Brazil
  Cariso
• Carnatic music
• Carol
• Cartageneras

Cas-Cav

• Cassé-co
• Cassette culture
• Castilian
  Cavacha

Cc-Ce

• CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)
  Celempungan
• Cello rock
• Celtic
• Celtic metal
  Celtic reggae

Cha

• Cha-cha-cha
  Chakacha
  Chamamé - Argentinian folk music
  Chamber jazz
  Chamber pop
• Chamber music
• Champeta - Colombian musical form derived from African communities in Cartagena
  Champloo
  Changuí
• Chanson
• Charanga
  Charanga-vallenato - 1980s mixture of salsa, charanga and vallenata
  Charikawi
  Chastushki - humorous Russian folk songs
  Chau van - Vietnamese trance music

Che-Chi

• Chemical breaks
  Chèo
  Chill-Out
• Chicago house
• Chicken scratch - Arizona-based Native American music
  Chimurenga (mbira)
  Chinese music
  Chinese rock - rock and roll from China, often with protest lyrics
  Chip music

Cho-Chr

• Chongak - Korean aristocratic chamber music
  Chouval bwa
  Chowtal
• Chicago blues
• Chicago house
• Chicago jazz (Dixieland jazz)
• Chicago soul
  Chicha - a Peruvian fusion of rock and roll, cumbia and huayno
  Cho-kantrum - the most traditional form of Cambodian kantrum
  Choctaw Social Dance
  Chorinho
  Choro - Brazilian folk music
  Christian alternative
• Christmas carol
• Christian hip hop
• Christian metal
• Christian rock
• Chylandyk - type of xoomii which sounds like the chirping of crickets

Chu

• Chumba
  Chut-kai-pang
  Chutney - popular Indo-Trinidadian music
  Chutney-bhangra
  Chutney-hip hop
  Chutney-soca - Chutney mixed with calypso and other influences

Ci-Cl

• Cigányzene
  Cînd ciobanu s-i a pierdut oile
  Cîntec batrînesc
  Ciobanul
  Circus metal
• Classic female blues - early popular form of blues
• Classic metal
• Classical music era
• Clicks n Cuts
  Close harmony

Coc-Cor

• Cocobale
  Coimbra fado - a form of refined fado from Coimbra, Portugal
  Colombianas
  Comedy rock
• Comic opera
• Comparsa
  Compas direct
  Compas meringue
  Concert overture
• Concerto
• Concerto grosso
• Congo - Panamanian dance music
• Congolese sound
  Conjunto
  Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)
  Contonbley
  Contradanza
• Cool jazz
• Cocorrido
  Coladeira
  Coldwave (or industrial rock)
  Combined Rhythm - music of the Dutch Antilles
  Corsican polyphonic song
  Cothoza mfana

Cou-Cow

• Country blues
• Country music
• Country rock
• Countrypolitan
  Couple de sonneurs - Breton dance music
  Cow punk

Cr-Cu

• Crapcore
  Creative jazz
  Creole
• Crossover music
• Crunk
• Crust punk
• Csárdás
  Cuarteto - Argentinian folk music
  Cueca
• Cumbia - popular dance music, originally Colombian but now popular across Latin America, especially Mexico
• Cumbia panameña - Panamanian cumbia
  Cumfa
  Cybercore
• Cumbia villera - Argentinian type of cumbia which contains marginal lyrics

D

Da - De-Dh - Di-Dr - Du-Dz

Da

• Dabka - Palestinian dance music for weddings
  Dadra
  Daina - Latvian sung poetry
  Daino - Lithuanian traditional music
  Dalauna
• Dance (music) - dance (form of musical composition)
• Dance music - any rhythmic music intended for dancing
• Dance pop - comtemporary form of dance music with pop music structures
• Dance-punk
• Dancehall
  Dangdut - popular Indonesian dance music with influences from Arabic and Indian music
  Danube New Wave - mixture of Viennese schrammelmusik and American blues and rock and roll
  Danza
  Danzón
• Dark ambient
• Dark trance
• Darkwave
• Dementia - relating to the style of music popularized by the Dr. Demento Show

De-Dh

• De codru
  De dragoste
  De jale
  De pahar
  Death industrial
• Death metal
• Death rock (also known as death punk)
• Death techno
  Deblas
  Deboche - Brazilian fusion of electric frevo and ijexá
  Décima
  Degung
• Delta blues
• Deep house
• Deep soul
  Dementia
  Desi - Indian folk music
• Detroit blues
• Detroit techno
• Dhamar - a type of highly-oranemented dhrupad
  Dhimotiká - traditional Greek songs
  Dhrupad - Hindustani vocal music performed by men singing in medieval Hindi
  Dhun

Di-Dr

• Dialect rock - rock music sung in various Swiss-German dialects
  Digital hardcore
  Dirge
• Dirty South (also known as Southern rap)
• Disco
• Disco house
  Disco Polo - Polish nightclub dance music.
  Dixieland jazz (Chicago jazz)
  Djambadon
  Dodompa - Japanese tango
  Doina
  Dombola
  Dondang sayang - slow folk music that mixes Malaysian forms with Portuguese, India, Chinese and Arabic music
  Donegal fiddle tradition
  Donjiang - Chinese Naxi form of folk music, related to silk and bamboo music from Chinca
  Doo wop
• Doom metal
• Dopé
  Downtempo
  Dream pop
• Drill and bass
• Dronology
• Drum and bass (DNB)

Du-Dz

• Dub
• Dub techno
  Dundun - Yoruban drum music
  Dunedin Sound - early 1980s alternative rock sound based out of Dunedin, New Zealand and Flying Nun Records
  Dutch jazz
  Dutch trance
  Dziesma
  Dzoke - type of yang chanting

E

Ea-En - Er-Ez

Ea-En

• Early music
• East Coast blues
• East Coast hip hop
• Eastern Tradition of Sephardic music
  Easy listening
  Pasillo
  Yaraví
  Elafrolaïkó
  Electric blues
• Electro
• Electro hop
• Electroclash
• Electrofunk
• Electronic art music
• Electronic body music (EBM, also known as industrial dance)
• Electronic luk thung - Dance-ready form of Thai pleng luk thung
• Electronic music
• Electronica
• Electropop
• Elektro
  Elevator music (or Muzak)
  Emeba
• Emo
• Endecasillabo - Central Italian 11-syllabic song form
  English funk
  English madrigal
  Enka - Japanese pop music, using native forms
  Éntekhno

Ep-Ez

• Epic metal
• Eremwu eu
  Euba
  Eurobeat
• Eurodance
• Europop
• Eurotrance (traditional dance music)
• Exotica
• Experimental music
• Experimental noise
  Experimental rock
  Ezengileer - type of Tuvan xoomii said to imitate the trotting of horses

F

Fa-Fr - Fu

Fa-Fr

• F-Step - variant of hardcore jungle with simultaneous, overlapping beats
  Fado - Portuguese roots-based popular music
  Falak - Tajik folk music
• fandango - Spanish dance music
• Farruca - a genre of flamenco
  Filk - modern, science fiction-oriented music
• Film scores
• Filmi - Indian film music
• Filmi-ghazal - filmi based on Hindustani ghazaal
  Finger-style
  Fjatpangarri - Aboriginal Australian music local to Yirrbala
• Flamenco - dance music of Spanish Gypsies
• Foaie verde - classical form of Romanian Gypsy doina
  Fofa
• Folk metal
• Folk music
• Folk pop
• Folk punk
• Folk rock
• Folktronica
• Fonn Mall
  Forró - extremely popular music of Northeastern Brazil
  Franco-country
  Freak-folk
• Free improvisation - freeform musical improvisation
• Free jazz - improvised 1960s jazz
• Free music
• Freestyle house - a cross-culture mix of hip-hop/electro/house/pop
• Freetekno
• Frevo - folk music from Recife, Brazil
  Fricote - dance music from Salvador, Brazil

Fu

• Fuji - Yoruban vocal and percussion music
  Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan percussion music
  Funacola
  Funana
• Funk - a bass-heavy outgrowth of soul music
• Funk metal - 1980s combination of funk, heavy metal and punk rock
• Funky breaks - a type of breaks electronic music
  Funky highlife - fusion of funk and Ghanaian highlife
• Furniture music - Erik Satie's invention of Background music
• Fusion bhangra (New Wave bhangra) - bhangra combined with rock and roll, reggae, hip hop, ragga and funk
  Fusion jazz - mixture of rock and jazz
  Future jazz
• Futurepop - outgrowth of synthpop, EBM and darkwave