List of popular music genres

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List of popular music genres

This is a list of the commercially-relevant genres in modern popular music. Styles that are not contemporary or commercially marketed in substantial numbers have been excluded, in accordance with the following criteria:

1. Art music: classical music and opera.
2. Music written for the score of a play, stage musical, operetta, zarzuela, film or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes.
3. Ballroom music: tango, pasodoble, cha cha cha and others.
4. Religious music: gospel, Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns and the like.
5. Military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions.
6. Regional and national musics with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when a version of an international genre: Western traditional music, folk, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque, Chalga, Enka, Flamenco, indigenous music and Mor lam sing.
7. Genres which are not distinguishable from existing ones, and those that consist of a mixture of styles, such as dansband and ghettotech.

Applicable styles are classified in this list using Allmusic^[1] genre categorisation.

[edit] Avant-garde Experimental music Anarchist folk rock Minimalist music Lo-fi [edit] Country Alternative country Americana Country pop Nashville sound/Countrypolitan Urban Cowboy Country rock Honky tonk Bakersfield Sound Progressive country Neotraditional country Outlaw country Rockabilly Traditional country Bluegrass Progressive bluegrass Traditional bluegrass Close harmony String band Western Western swing [edit] Heavy metal Black metal Death metal Doom metal Folk metal Glam metal Gothic metal Grindcore Groove metal Industrial metal Metalcore Nu metal Power metal Progressive metal Rap metal Sludge metal Speed metal Symphonic metal Thrash metal [edit] Jazz Acid jazz Asian American jazz Avant-garde jazz Bebop Big band Crossover jazz Dixieland Calypso jazz Chamber jazz Cool jazz Free jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Jazz blues Jazz-funk Jazz fusion Jazz rap Latin jazz Mainstream jazz Mini-jazz Modal jazz M-Base Nu jazz Smooth jazz Soul jazz Swing Trad jazz West Coast jazz

[edit] Blues Boogie-woogie Country blues Delta blues Electric blues Jump blues [edit] Electronic Ambient Dark ambient Breakbeat Dance Big beat Dubstep Drum and bass Darkcore Electroclash Eurodance Gabba Garage Goa trance Psychedelic trance Happy hardcore Hardcore techno Hi-NRG House Ambient house Italo house Acid house IDM Spacesynth Trance Acid Classic Euro Hard Hardstyle Progressive trance Tech Uplifting Vocal Electro Electronica Folktronica Rave Techno Acid breaks Trip hop Downbeat Glitch Industrial music Progressive electronic [edit] Hip hop/Rap music Crunk Dirty rap and Pornocore Gangsta rap G-funk Grime Miami bass Political hip hop Turntablism World hip hop African hip hop Asian hip hop Australian hip hop European hip hop British hip hop Middle Eastern hip hop American hip hop Canadian hip hop East Coast hip hop Mexican hip hop Midwest hip hop Southern hip hop West Coast hip hop New Zealand hip hop South American hip hop Chicano rap

[edit] Easy listening Background music Beautiful music Elevator music Furniture music Lounge music Middle of the road [edit] Latin Bossa Nova Merengue Reggaeton Salsa Samba Tejano [edit] Pop Adult contemporary music Adult oriented pop music Afropop Arab pop Austropop Baroque pop Brazilian pop Bubblegum pop Chinese pop Contemporary Christian Country pop Dance-pop Disco Disco polo Electropop/Technopop Eurobeat Euro disco Europop Experimental pop music French pop Greek Laïkó pop Hindi pop Hong Kong and Cantonese pop Hong Kong English pop House-pop Indonesian pop Italo dance Italo disco Jangle pop Japanese pop Korean pop Latin pop Levenslied Louisiana swamp pop Mandarin pop Manufactured pop Mexican pop Nederpop New romantic Noise pop Operatic pop Persian pop Pop folk Pop rap Psychedelic pop Russian pop Schlager Sophisti-pop Space age pop Sunshine pop Surf pop Synthpop Taiwanese pop Teen pop Thai pop Traditional pop music Turkish pop US pop Vispop Wonky Pop Yugoslav pop

[edit] Modern folk Indie folk Neofolk Progressive folk [edit] Reggae 2 tone Dancehall Dub Lovers rock Ragga Reggaefusion Ska [edit] Rhythm and blues Contemporary R&B Doo wop Funk Deep Funk Go-go P-Funk New jack swing Soul Hip hop soul Northern soul Neo soul Urban contemporary [edit] Rock Alternative rock Britpop Dream pop Emo Gothic rock Grunge Post-grunge Indie rock C86 Industrial rock Indie pop Madchester Post-rock Shoegazing Blues-rock C-Rock Dark cabaret Desert rock Folk rock Garage rock Glam rock Hard rock J-Rock New Wave Paisley Underground Power pop Progressive rock Psychedelic rock Acid rock Punk rock Anarcho punk Crust punk Deathrock Hardcore punk Post-hardcore Pop punk Post-punk Psychobilly Rap rock Rapcore Rock and roll Soft rock Southern rock Surf rock [edit] World Worldbeat Afrobeat

[edit] References

[edit] 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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