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# සංගීත ගණය

A **music genre** is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. It is to be distinguished from *musical form* and **musical style**, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

Music can be divided into genres in varying ways, such as into popular music and art music, or religious music and secular music. The artistic nature of music means that these classifications are often subjective and controversial, and some genres may overlap. Academic definitions of the term *genre* itself vary.

* Holt, Fabian (2007). *Genre in Popular Music*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* Negus, Keith (1999). *Music Genres and Corporate Cultures*. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-17399-5.
* Starr, Larry; Waterman, Christopher Alan (2010). *American popular music from minstrelsy to MP3*. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539630-0.

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