List of popular music genres

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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. However Art Music, with the exception of opera, is not usually classified as popular music but as Western Art Music instead.
  2. Music written for the score of a play, musicals, 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: Traditional music, folk, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque, Chalga, Enka, Flamenco, indigenous music and Mor lam sing.

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

Contents

[edit] List of genres

[edit] African

(including many genres; not actually a genre itself)

[edit] Avant-Garde

[edit] Blues

[edit] Comedy music

[edit] Country

[edit] Easy listening

[edit] Electronic

[edit] Modern folk

[edit] Hip Hop

[edit] Jazz

[edit] Latin American

(including many genres; not actually a genre itself)

[edit] Pop

[edit] R&B

[edit] Rock

[edit] Ska

[edit] Other

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] Allmusic web site

[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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