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 12-taktiline bluus – A distinctive form predominantly based on the I-IV-V chords of a key.
 2 Tone – late-1970s UK ska revival which fused ska with punk rock.
 2-step garage – chaotic style of UK garage.
 20th-century classical music, Modern classical – loose term for orchestral music made during or after the 20th century
 4-beat – breakbeat hardcore subgenre played between 150 and 170 BPM consisting of a fast looped breakbeat and a drum at every 4 beats.
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 Acid breaks 
 Acid house – psychedelic style of house
 Acid jazz – psychedelic style of jazz influenced heavily by funk and hip-hop production
 Acid rock – a form of psychedelic rock, characterized with long instrumental solos, few (if any) lyrics and musical improvisation
 Acid techno – a form of techno that developed out of acid house.
 Acid trance
 Adult contemporary – a broad term for any music with lush and soothing qualities, and a focus on melody and harmony.
 Afropop – a genre of African popular music.
 Saya – Bolivian music derived from African rhythms
 Afro-Cuban jazz – style of jazz influenced by traditional Afro-Cuban music.
 Afrobeat – a large-scaled and energetic combination of West African, highlife, jazz, and funk music.
 Aguinaldo
 Akustiline muusika (Acoustic) – a music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
 Alternatiivkantri – any style of country that deviates from the normal
Alternatiivne hiphop – any style of hip hop that deviates from the norm
 Alternatiivne metal – any style of heavy metal that deviates from the norm
 Alternatiivne R&B – any style of R&B that deviates from the norm
 Alternatiivrokk – any style of rock that deviates from the norm
 Alternative dance – any combination of rock and electronic dance music
 Ambient house – a combination of acid house and ambient music.
 Isolationist – style of ambient that uses repetition and dissonance to create a sense of uneasiness
 Ambient muusika(Ambient) – a form of incredibly slow electronic music that uses long repetitive sounds to generate a sense of calm and atmosphere.
 Americana – a combination of all forms of roots music – folk, country, and blues
 Anarcho-punk - punk rock with anarchist themes.
 Anasheed – Islamic vocal music, usually sung a cappella, or accompanied by a daff.
 Anatoolia rokk - a fusion of Turkish folk and rock
 Anime muusika – music, usually J-pop, used in anime soundtracks
 Anti-folk – a mocking subgenre of folk that subverts the earnest, politically-informed lyrics of folk-revivalists.
 Apala – Nigerian music originally used by the Yoruba people to wake worshippers after fasting during Ramadan.
 Araabia popp – pop music informed by traditional Arabic styles.
 Argentina rokk – rock music informed by traditional Argentine styles.
 Ars antiqua – European music from the Late Middle Ages, which advanced concepts of rhythm.
 Ars nova – style of French music from the Late Middle Ages, rejected fiercely by the Catholic Church.
 Ars subtilior – style of French music from the Late Middle Ages.
 Art pop – experimental or avant-garde pop music
 Art punk – experimental or avant-garde punk music
 Art rock – experimental or avant-garde rock music
 Artcore (muusika) – an electronic music genre that mixes instrumental music with DnB and Electro
 Ashik – music performed by mystic or traveling Turkish, Azerbaijan, Georgian, Armenian, and Iranian bands, using vocals and the saz, performed since ancient times.
Austraalia hiphop – hip hop performed by Australians
 Austraalia kantri – country music performed by Australians
 Austraalia pubirokk – style of hard rock founded in and drawing on themes native to Australian inner-city and suburban pubs and drinking establishments
Avangarddžäss – experimental or avant-garde jazz music
Avangard-metal – experimental or avant-garde heavy metal or hard rock
Avangardmuusika – music considered to be ahead of its time, often using new, unusual, or experimental elements, or fusing pre-existing genres.
 Avant-punk – experimental punk music
 Axé – style of Salvadorian, Bahian, and Brazilian music informed by Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian styles

B
 Bachata – An Afro-Dominican style waltz, consisting of despairing, and romantic ballads, popular among Dominican artists
 Baggy – a British style that combined alternative rock and acid house, often creating a psychedelic and funky sound
 Baguala – folk music of the Indians of the Calchaquí valleys of Argentina
 Baião – a Brazilian rhythmic formula built around the zabumba drum that later combined itself with elements of mestizo, European, and African styles
 Baila – Sri Lankan style that begun among the Afro-Sinhalese (or Kariff) community
 Baisha xiyue – orchestral Chinese style used by the Naxi people, often found in Taoist or Confucian ceremonies
 Bajourou – initially an acoustic style of Malian pop music played at gatherings (particularly weddings), which has since become mostly electronic
 Bakersfield sound – a raw and gritty country style that acted as a reaction against the slick, overproduced Nashville sound
 Bal-musette – 19th century style of French accordion-based dance music
 Musette – French folk dance music
 Balakadri – Guadeloupean music made from the quadrille, usually performed at balls
 Balearic beat, also known as Balearic house, electronic dance music that was popular into the mid-1990s.
 Balkan Brass Band – Serbian music made by soldiers that combined military brass with folk music
 Baltimore Club – combination of hip hop and house music
 Bambuco – Colombian style based on waltz and polka
 Banda – brass-based Mexican music
 Bangsawan – style of Malay opera based on Indian styles introduced by immigrants
 Bantowbol – Cameroonian style of accordion music
 Barbershop muusika – an art song in four part harmony in a cappella styling
 Barcarolle – traditional music style from Italy, sung by venetian gondollers.
 Barn dance – folk music played in a barnhouse
 Barokk pop – combination of classical music, orchestral pop, rock, and Baroque music
 Barokk – style of Western art music made between the 17th and 18th centuries
 Barynya – Russian folk music style.
 Bass – styles of EDM with an emphasis on bass, such as drum and bass, bass house, UK garage, and dubstep
 Bassline – style of speed garage that combines elements of dubstep, particularly its emphasis on bass
 Batá-rumba – Cuban rumba music that incorporates bata and guaguanco
 Batucada – an African-influenced style of Brazilian samba
 Baul – A style of folk music, specially in Bengali region.
 Beach – Californian genre from the 1950s that combined elements of all popular genres at the time, particularly big band and shag jazz
 Beat – British fusion of all popular 1960s American styles – R&B, pop, jazz, rock
 Beatboxing – a capaella music created to emulate hip hop beats
 Beautiful – term of endearment for various easy listening genres
 Bebop – fast-paced style of jazz popular in the 1940s and 1950s
 Beguine/Biguine Music style from French territory in the caribbean, Martinique island and precursor of jazz
 Beiguani muusika – style of Chinese traditional music popular in Taiwan and the province of Zhangzhou
 Bel canto – a light, sophisticated style of Italian opera singing
 Bend-skin – urban Cameroonian music
 Benga muusika – Kenyan popular music based on Luo and Kikuyu folk music
 Bent edge
 Berejú – Colombian dance with African origins
 Berliini koolkonna elektrooniline muusika – heavily experimental electronic music that acted as a more avant-garde form of Krautrock and inspired ambient and New Age music
 Bhajan – Hindu religious music
 Bhangra muusika – fusion of South Asian and British popular styles, initially developed by Punjabi Indian-English as a combination of their respective cultural styles, but later used to refer to any South Asian/European fusion
 Bhangragga – a fusion of bhangra, reggae and dancehall
 Big beat – 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences
 Big band – large orchestras which play a form of swing music
 Biguine – Guadeloupean folk music
 Bihu – a popular folk music of Assam, India
 Bikutsi – Cameroonian EDM, originating in the Beti community
 Biomusic – a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by living things.
 Bitpop – electronic music, where at least part of the music is made using old 8-bit computers, game consoles and little toy instruments. Popular choices are the Commodore 64, Game Boy, Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System.
 Black metal – Extreme metal known for its lo-fi recording, shrieking vocals, unconventional song structures and dark or supernatural lyrics.
 Black MIDI – sheet music consisting in huge amount of notes per instrument, generally written in digital MIDI format.
 Blackened death metal – a fusion between death and black metal
 Blue-eyed soul – rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
 Bluegrass – American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences
 Bluus ballaad – fusion of blues and folk
 Bluus – African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area
 Bluusrokk – a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles.
 Boi – Amazonian folk music
 Boogaloo 
 Izvorna bosanska|Bosnia pärimusmuusika – Bosnian rural roots music
 Bossanoova – a well-known style of Brazilian music, a lyrical fusion of samba and jazz.
 Bounce – energetic hip-hop music, native to New Orleans, frequently characterized by chromatic tics and "call and response" lyrics
 Bouncy techno – an upbeat form of electronic dance music.
 Brass – music performed with brass instruments, prior to the advent of jazz
 Breakbeat hardcore – a fusion of breakbeat and acid house
 Breakbeat – a style of EDM known for its 4/4 drum pattern and heavy use of turntable scratching
 Breakcore – fast and frantic style of breakbeat known for its intentionally diverse range of samples, which make it a hard-to-define genre
 Breakstep
 Brega muusika genre of Brazilian popular music
 Brill Building Sound – a distinct style of jazz and Latin-inspired pop developed in the Brill Building of New York, USA
 Briti bluus – blues performed by British musicians
 Briti folkrokk – associated with the folk revival of the 1960s, British folk rock tends to use modern, often electric, instruments alongside or in place of traditional and acoustic folk instruments
 briti funk – funk performed by the British, often influenced by soul, jazz, and Caribbean music
 Briti invasioon – British musicians, primarily of the beat movement, who became popular in America during the 1960s
 Briti pop – British rock music from the 1990s that subverted the depressing themes of the then-popular grunge movement in favor of jangly, optimistic, guitar-pop, often touching on the themes of partying and working class life.
 Broken beat – EDM played in a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, with punctuated snare beats
 Brown-eyed soul – soul music performed by Latinos
 Brukdown – Belizean music inspired by European harmonies, African rhythms, and the call-and-response format
 Bubblegum dance – fusion of Eurodance and bubblegum pop
 Bubblegum pop – pop music known for its simplicity, happy and cute lyrics, and emphasis on image rather than substance.
 Bulerías – fast-paced flamenco music
 Bullerengue – style of Colombian music with African rithms and chants.
 Bunraku – Japanese folk music often played at puppet theaters
 Burger-highlife – style of highlife played by Ghanaian-Germans
 Burgundia koolkond – group of French, Belgian, and Dutch composers active in the 15th century, known for their secular forms
 Bush ballad – Australian folk music often dealing with themes of Australian spirit and rebellion
 Bütsantsi muusika – Greek music performed during the age of the Byzantine Empire, known for its ecclesiastical form

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 Ca din tulnic – Romanian folk music played with the alpenhorn
 Ca trù – a style of Vietnamese chamber music performed by one lute player and a geisha-esque female singer, used to entertain wealthy audiences, who would be included in the performances, and to perform in religious ceremonies
 Cadence rampa – upbeat style of kadans
 Cadence-lypso – fusion of kadans and calypso
 Cải lương – modern Vietnamese folk opera
 Cajun – roots music of Louisiana, USA, inspired by Acadian ballads and Creole
 Cakewalk
 Čalgija – Macedonian folk style
 Calinda – Trinidadian folk music played during practices of the martial art of the same name
 Calypso – Trinidadian folk music, inspired by both African and French styles, and known for its lyrics dealing with the racist oppression of native Trinidadians at the time
 Calypso-style baila – fusion of baila and calypso
 Campursari – Indonesian fusion genre, combining several folk styles with pop music
 Can Can
 Candombe – fusion of African and Uruguayan styles developed by African-Uruguayan slaves in the 19th century
 Cante chico – the vocal component to flamenco music
 Cante jondo – flamenco music that incorporates deep vocals
 Canterbury scene – group of British avant-garde, progressive rock, and jazz fusion musicians based in the English city of Canterbury, Kent
 Cantiga – Portuguese ballad style from the Middle Ages
 Cantiñas – upbeat form of Andalusian flamenco music
 Canto livre – Portuguese folk music known for its far-left political messages
 Cantopop – any Chinese pop music sung in Cantonese
 Canzone Napoletana – Italian music sung in Neapolitan
 Capoeira – Brazilian music played during performances of the martial art of the same name
 Carimbó Music and dance from the north east of Brazil 
 Cariso – Trinidadian folk music, often considered an early form of calypso
 Karnataka muusika – southern Indian classical music
 Carnavalito
 Carol – a festive song, often sung on Christmas or, rarely, Easter
 Cartageneras – a style of flamenco known for its focus on folklore
 Cavacha – style of rhythm popular in Kenyan and Zairean music
 Celempungan – Sudanese folk music
 Cha-cha-cha muusika – Cuban folk music
 Chacarera – Argentinian folk and dance music
 Chakacha – music of the Swahili people of Kenya and Tanzania
 Chalga – fusion of Bulgarian etno-pop and dance music with Eastern and Arab elements, popular in Southern Bulgaria
 Chamamé – style of Argentinian, Mesopotamian, and Brazilian folk music
 Chamarrita – style of Argentinian and Uruguayan folk music
 Champeta – African-Colombian folk music
 Jamrieng samai – Cambodian pop music
 Changüí – Cuban music that fused African and Spanish styles
 Chanson – French vocal-driven music
 Chant – singing or speaking rhythmically to a very small number of pitches
 Chap hop – a variety of music originating from England that mixes the hip hop genre with elements from the Chappist or steampunk subcultures
 Charanga – traditional Cuban dance music
 Charanga-vallenata – fusion of charanga, vallenata, and salsa
 Charikawi – music accompanying of the dance of the same name of the Garifuna people of west Africa
 Charleston (dance)
 Chầu văn – a downtempo, trance-inducing style of Vietnamese folk music
 Chèo – a style of musical theater performed by Vietnamese peasants
 Chicago bluus – blues music performed by Chicago inhabitants
 Chicago house – house music performed by Chicago inhabitants
 Chicago soul – soul music performed by Chicago inhabitants
 Chicken scratch – fusion of Native American, White American, Mexican, and European styles, performed by the Native American Tohono O'odham people
 Lastemuusika – any music marketed towards children
 Chill-out – umbrella term for electronic music with a slow tempo, designed to calm people after raves
 Chillwave – indie pop style known for its looped synths and calming effects
 Chiptune – Electronic music that is made on vintage computers/game systems or emulations thereof. May also refer to electronic music that uses samples from video games or vintage computers.
 Choro – fast-paced Brazilian pop music
 Chouval bwa – Martinican folk music
 Chowtal – north Indian folk music performed during the Phagwa or Holi festival
 Kristlik alternatiivrokk – fusion of Christian and alternative rock
 Kristlik kantri – fusion of Christian and country music
 Kristlik hardcore – fusion of Christian and hardcore punk rock
Kristlik hiphop – hip hop with Christian themes
 Kristlik metal – fusion of Christian and heavy metal rock
 Kristlik muusika – any music with overt Christian themes
 Kristlik punk – fusion of Christian and punk rock
 Kristlik rokk – rock music with Christian themes
 Kristlik ska – ska music with Christian themes
 Chula
 Chumba – folk and dance style of the Garifuna people of west Africa
 Church musicKirikumuusika
 Chut-kai-pang – fusion of chutney, calypso, and parang
 Chutney Soca – fusion of chutney and soca music
 Chutney pop – Caribbean pop music that fuses calypso and cadence with several Indian styles
 Tuva kõrilaul – style of throat singing performed by the Tuva people of Siberia, created to mimic the chirps of crickets
 Cielito
 Cifra
 Klassikaline kantri – umbrella term for country music released before the use of the term to describe it
 Classic female blues – an early form of blues music known for its female vocalists
 Klassitsism – a clearer, slicker form of Western art music performed in the 18th and 19th centuries, known for its emphasis on homophones and melody
 Klassikaline muusika – umbrella term for Western art music known for its use of large orchestras and staff notation
 Close harmony – any music with notes performed in a close range
 Coladeira – Cape Verdean folk music
 Coldwave – French post-punk
 Combined rhythm – Dutch Antillean folk music inspired by zouk, merengue, and soca
 Koomiline muusika – any music that incorporates heavy themes of humor and comedy
 Koomiline räpp – fusion of comedy and hip hop music
 Koomiline rokk – fusion of comedy and rock music
 Koomiline ooper – fusion of comedy and opera music
 Compas – a modernized form of Haitian meringue music
 Concerto – a three-part classical piece in which one instrument takes lead and is backed by an orchestra
 Conga – Cuban music played to accompany the dance of the same name
 Conjunto – fusion of Mexican and German styles developed by Mexican-Americans who had bought German instruments in Texas
 Contemporary Christian music – pop music with overt Christian themes
 Contemporary R&B – a style of R&B music popular in the 21st century that combines soul-inspired vocals with hip-hop and EDM-inspired production
 Contradanza – 19th century Cuban dance music
 Cool jazz – a relaxed, downtempo form of jazz heavily inspired by classical music, that existed as a reaction to the fast-paced bebop
 Coon song – music about black stereotypes
 Corrido – Mexican storytelling ballad
 Kantribluus – fusion of country and blues music
 Country folkKantrifolk – fusion of country and folk music
 Kantripop – fusion of country and pop music
 Kantriräpp – fusion of country and hip hop music
 Kantrirokk – fusion of country and rock music
 Kantrimuusika – American roots music played with acoustic guitars, banjos, fiddles, and harmonicas
 Coupé-Décalé – Ivorian-French EDM drawing on zouk and African influences
 Cowpunk – fusion of country and punk rock music
 Kreeta muusika – Greek folk music performed by inhabitants of the island of Crete
 Crossover thrash – fusion of thrash metal and hardcore punk
 Crunk – fusion of hip hop and EDM, known for its heavy basslines and shouted, call-and-response vocals
 Crunkcore – fusion of crunk and screamo
 Crust punk – fusion of anarcho- and hardcore punk and extreme metal
 Csárdás – Hungarian folk music
 Cuándo – Chilean folk music genre.
 Cuarteto – Argentinian merengue music, originating in the city of Cordoba, and influenced also by Spanish and Italian styles
 Rumba
 Cueca – umbrella term for Argentinian, Chilean, and Bolivian styles
 Puya – traditional music style from Colombia
 Cumbia villera – cumbia performed by inhabitants of the shantytowns of Buenos Aires
 Cumbia – fusion of Colombian folk music and African and Spanish styles bought from slaves and colonists, respectively
 Currulao

D
 Dabke – Arabic folk dance music, often played at weddings
 Dadra – light vocal style of Hindustani classical music, originating from the Bundelkhand region
 Dadra tala – a style of Hindustani classical music which utilizes six beats in two equal rows of three
 Daina – Latvian folk music
 Daina – Lithuanian folk music
 Dance – any music designed to make the listener dance. Also known as club music, an offshoot to electronic music which gave rise to EDM.
 Dance-pop – pop music with an emphasis on dance rhythms, fusion of dance and pop musical styles.
 Dance-punk – a grittier and rawer form of new wave music, linked heavily to the contemporary indie scene
 Dance-rock – fusion of post-punk and post-disco, linked heavily to the new wave
 Dancehall – Jamaican pop music that abandons reggae's roots influences for a slicker, EDM-inspired production
 Dangdut – melodic and heavily optimistic form of Indonesian pop
 Danger – any music that will, somehow, potentially harm either the performers or the audience, linked heavily to noise rock
 Dansband – Swedish folk music
 Danza – Puerto Rican style of music that accompanies the ballroom-influenced dance of the same name
 Danzón – Cuban dance music
 Dappan koothu – Indian folk dance music, popular in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, often used as filmi music in the movies produced in those states
 Dark ambient – style of ambient music that creates a feeling of dread and foreboding, rather than the relaxation given off by most ambient
 Dark cabaret – fusion of cabaret and gothic rock
 Punk Cabaret – a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock.
 Dark pop – fusion of industrial/goth rock synthesizers with hip hop/techno drums
 Dark rock – fusion of gothic and alternative rock
 Dark wave – excessively pessimistic style of post-punk, which relied on tales of realistic sorrow, rather than the fantasy elements of the then-popular gothic rock
 Darkcore – chaotic and sinister style of jungle, which relied on pitch-shifting and horror movie audio samples
 Darkstep – style of darkcore jungle that takes its signature sinister feel and fuses it with upbeat breakbeats and ambient noises, creating an excessively chaotic tone
 De dragoste – Romanian love music
 Death metal – Extreme metal known for its distorted guitar structure, growling vocals, blast beat drumming and dark or violent lyrics.
 Death rock – style of gothic rock known for its scratchy guitars, and lyrics focusing on supernatural and pessimistic themes, sometimes delving into intentionally campy horror themes
 Death-doom – fusion of death and doom metal
 Deathcore – fusion of death metal and metalcore
 Deathgrind – fusion of death metal and grindcore
 Décima – Hispanic genre of sung poetry
 Deep Funk
 Deep house – form of Chicago house, inspired by jazz and soul music
 Delta blues – blues music performed by inhabitants of the Mississippi Delta
 Descarga – a genre of improvised Afro-Cuban music
 Desi – a style of Hindustani classical raga, associated with the Asavari and Kafi thaat
 Detroit blues – blues music performed by inhabitants of Detroit, Michigan, USA
 Detroit techno – techno performed by inhabitants of Detroit, Michigan, USA
 Dhamar – a tala used in Hindustani classical music, associated with the dhrupad style, and played on a pakhawaj
 Dhrupad – vocal style of Hindustani classical music, considered the oldest still being performed today
 Dhun – a light instrumental form of Hindustani classical music
 Diablada – Telluric Bolivian folk music style.
 Digital hardcore – fusion of hardcore punk and hardcore techno, known for its far-left lyrics
 Dirge – a song of mourning, often played at a funeral
 Dirty rap – hip hop with sexual and pornographic themes
 Disco polo – Polish disco music
 Disco – a form of music to dance to with elements of soul, pop and salsa.
 Diva house – style of house popular in LGBT nightclubs
 Dixieland – an early form of jazz developed in New Orleans, USA
 Djent – subgenre of progressive metal known for its elastic power chords
 Doina – Romanian folk music, informed by Middle Eastern styles
 Dondang Sayang – love ballads from the Malaysian state of Malacca, influenced by Portuguese styles
 Donegal fiddle tradition – an Irish style of fiddle-playing from the Donegal county
 Dongjing – Chinese traditional music of Nakhi people of the Yunnan province
 Doo-wop – a simplistic and pop-oriented form of R&B known for its vocal harmonies and little to no instrumentation
 Doom metal – A style of heavy metal known for its low-tuned sound, slow tempos, clean and non-growled vocals and pessimistic lyrics
 Funeral doom – incredibly slow style of doom metal, made to mimic funeral music
 Downtempo – a slow-paced style of electronic music that differs from ambient in that it also has a beat and rhythm
 Dementia – bizarre form of comedic avant-garde played by Dr. Demento
 Dream pop – an atmospheric and melodic style of indie pop that makes the audience feel dreamy
 Drill music - Chicago rap, see Drill (music genre) for more
 Drone metal – fusion of drone and heavy metal music
 Drone – experimental style of minimalism, known for drawn-out and repetitive tones, giving it a droning feel
 Drum and bass – style of EDM known for rapid-fire breakbeats and heavy basslines
 Drumstep – fusion of drum and bass and dubstep
 Dub – subgenre of reggae in which pre-existing tracks are heavily remixed, emphasizing the drum and bass (or riddim) and dubbing snippets from other works
 Dubstep – dub-inspired subgenre of UK garage known for its heavy basslines and reverberant drums
 Brostep – an aggressive and metal-influenced style of dubstep popular in America
 Dubtronica – fusion of dub and EDM
 Dunedin Sound – style of indie pop based in Dunedin, New Zealand
 Dunun – family of west African drums
 Dutch jazz – jazz performed by Dutch musicians

E
 Gabber – a faster, more anarchistic, form of house music designed to counter the pretentious Dutch house scene of the 1980s
 Early – umbrella term for any music made from the prehistoric era until the advent of baroque music
 Easy listening – pop style aimed at older listeners
 Epic – modern classical-like music derived from a wide array of genres, primarily trailer music.
Eksperimentaalne hiphop – fusion of experimental and hip hop music
 Eksperimentaalne metal – umbrella term for aggressive, non-commercial forms of heavy metal
 Experimental – any music that breaches contemporary standards of music
Eksperimentaalne popp – fusion of experimental and pop music
 Eksperimentaalne rokk – fusion of experimental and rock music
 Ekspressionism
 Electro backbeat – any EDM which utilizes a 4/4 drum pattern
 Electro Blues - mix of blues and electronic dance music
 Electro house
 Electro – early form of EDM which made its sounds intentionally robotic and computer-like, usually to channel a theme of transhumanism
 Electro swing – fusion of EDM and swing-jazz
 Electro-industrial – a style of post-industrial which used heavily produced and layered synths
 Electroclash – fusion of 1980s synthpop and 1990s techno
 Electronic body music – EDM-informed style of post-industrial
 Electronic dance – EDM; a fusion of electronic and dance music
 Electronica – popular music that includes electronic instruments
 Electronicore – fusion of electronic and post-hardcore/metalcore music
 Electropop – fusion of electronic and pop music
 Electropunk – fusion of electronic and punk music
 Electric blues – style of blues played with electric instruments, most notably the electric guitar
 Elektrooniline muusika – music that utilizes electronic instruments, such as the synthesizer, Theremin, and computer
 Elektrooniline rokk – fusion of electronic and rock music
 Emo pop – fusion of emo and pop punk
 Emo – heavily emotional and pessimistic style of post-hardcore punk
 Enka – a popular, modern adaptation of traditional Japanese music
 Eremwu eu – work songs of the female bakers of the Garifuna people of west Africa
 Ethereal wave – atmospheric subgenre of dark wave
 Euro disco – European disco music, which incorporated elements of pop rock and synthpop
 Euro house – European house music, usually a house-based form of Eurodance or Euro disco
 Eurobeat – antecedent to Italo disco
 Eurodance – European dance music and evolution of Euro disco that adapted elements of house and hi-NRG
 Europop – European pop music
 Eurotrance – European trance music, usually a fusion of Eurodance with uplifting trance and/or hard trance.
 Exotica – fusion of many popular international genres from the 1950s marketed at Americans, who were attracted to the exotic label

F
 Fado – Portuguese folk music, often touching on the themes of melancholia and working class struggles
 Falak – Afghan, Tajik, and Pakistani religious folk music
 Fandango – Spanish music made to accompany the upbeat dance of the same name
 Farruca – a light form of flamenco
 Festejo – a festive form of Afro-Peruvian music
 Filk – style of folk (sometimes expanding to other genres) with heavy science-fiction or fantasy themes
 Filmi-ghazal – fusion of filmi and ghazal poetry
 Filmi – Indian film scores
 Fingerstyle – the act of plucking guitar strings with the fingertips
 Flamenco – popular style of Spanish folk dance music developed in Andalusia by Romani-Spanish (or Gitanos), but latter expanding to the general Spanish populus
 Folk jazz – fusion of folk and jazz music
 Folk metal – fusion of folk and heavy metal rock
 Urban Folk
 Folk – broad term used to refer to the traditional music of an ethnic group, usually that performed by the working class
 Folk pop – fusion of folk and pop music
 Folk punk – fusion of folk and punk rock
 Folk rokk – fusion of folk and rock music
 Folktronica – fusion of folk and electronic music
 Forró – popular Brazilian folk dance music
 Foxtrot
 Franco-country – style of country music performed by French-Canadians
 Freak folk – experimental style of folk, often folk-rock
 Freakbeat – a frantic, raw style of beat and British Invasion music
 Free jazz – freely improvised jazz music
 Free tekno – style of techno developed by anarchists
 Tekno
 French house – house music produced by French artists
 Frevo – umbrella term for Brazilian dance styles associated with the Brazilian Carnivale
 Fuji – Nigerian folk music
 Funaná – Cape Verdean accordion-based dance music
 Funk metal – fusion of funk and heavy metal rock
 Funk rock – fusion of funk and rock music
 Funk – combination of elements of blues, jazz, and soul with the melodies and harmonies stripped in order to emphasize the bass guitar
 Funky house – fusion of funk and house music
 Furniture music – a calming, live form of background music
 Fusion jazz – fusion of jazz and rock music
 Future Bass – This genre stems from trap, juke and UK garage. it is focused on 808 drums and sawtooth synths
 Future garage – style of UK garage that fused it with elements of all other contemporary EDM styles
 Futurepop – style of EDM known for its similarities to synthpop and uplifting trance, as well as its heavy sampling

G
 G-funk – style of West Coast gangster rap
 Gaana – upbeat Tamil dance song performed at celebrations
 Gagaku – any Japanese classical music played for the Imperial Court
 Kagok – Korean folk music
 Gaita Zuliana – diverse form of Venezuelan folk
 Galant – intentionally simplistic style of Western classical music designed to counter the increasingly complex Baroque music of the 18th century
 Gamelan bebonangan – Balinese style of gamelan that utilizes a 7-tone scale and cymbals
 Gamelan degung – Sundanese style of gamelan that uses the pegog scale
 Gender wayang – Balinese style of gamelan
 Gamelan gong kebyar – Balinese style of gamelan known for its explosive changes in tempo
 Jegog – gamelan played with bamboo-based instruments
 Joged bumbung – fusion of gamelan and joged
 Gamelan salendro – West Javan gamelan
 Gamelan selunding – Balinese style of gamelan
 Gamelan semar pegulingan – Balinese style of gamelan
 Gamelan – Indonesian classical music
 Balinese Gamelan – Javanese and Balinese style made from xylophones, drums, and plucked strings
 Gammaldans – wide variety of traditional Nordic dance music, and modernized versions created by Nordic-Americans
 Gandrung – traditional Indonesian dance music
 Mafioso rap – subgenre of gangsta rap that focuses on organized crime
 Gangster rap – hip hop that deals with illegal activity
 Gar – Tibetan chanting and dancing
 Garage house – heavily polished style of American house
 Garage rock – raw and energetic style of rock, often practised by high school bands in garages
 Garba – Gujarati music and dance
 Gato – style of music folk dance popular in Argentina and Uruguay
 Music drama – an artwork that covers all forms of art
 Ghazal – Arabic (particularly Pakistani) angst-ridden poetry, often accompanied by music
 Ghetto house – form of Chicago house known for its sexually explicit lyrics
 Ghettotech – fusion of Chicago house, Miami bass, electro, glitch, and techno
 Girl group – any all-female pop or rock group
 Glam metal – a subgenre of heavy metal with elements of glam rock, hard rock and pop rock.
 Glam punk – fusion of glam and punk rock
 Glam rock – loosely defined pop rock which included heavy themes of gender-bending and androgyny
 Glitch – style of EDM based around samples of malfunctioning technology in order to create an intentionally harsh sound
 Gnawa – Islamic African religious music
 Go-go – style of funk known for its syncopated rhythms and call-and-response vocals
 Goa trance – fusion of trance music and traditional Indian styles
 Gong chime – any music performed with high-pitched pot gongs, usually Southeast Asian styles
 Goombay – Bahamian drum music
 Goregrind – style of grindcore known for its lyrical focus on gore and forensics
 Goshu ondo – traditional Japanese dance music from the Meiji era
 Gospel – modernization religious music
 Gothic metal – fusion of gothic rock and heavy metal
 Gothic rock – style of post-punk, heavily inspired by Gothic art
 Grebo – a short-lived British style of garage rock from the 1990s
 Neo kyma – style of classical Greek music from the 1960s with French influences
 Gregorian chant – a cappella, religious chant used by the Roman Catholic Church
 Grime – fusion of hip hop and UK garage
 Grindcore – fusion of death metal and hardcore punk with indecipherable vocals.
 Cybergrind – fusion of grindcore and industrial
 Groove metal – style of heavy metal that took elements of thrash, but played at mid-tempo, making a slower, groovier sound
 Group Sounds – Japanese pop from the 1961s, inspired heavily by British beat and American bubblegum pop
 Grunge – minimalist style of alternative metal, known for its heavily distorted guitars and angst-ridden lyrics
 Grupera – American rock-inspired Mexican rock
 Guajira – Cuban country music, performed in rural communities
 Guarania – Paraguayan music style also popular in Brazil
 Gumbe – Guinea-Bissaun folk music
 Gunchei – Central American music played to accompany the garifauna dance of the same name
 Gunka – Japanese military music
 Guoyue – modernized Chinese traditional music
 Gwo ka – Guadaloupean drum music
 Gwo ka moderne – modernized form of gwo ka
 Gypsy jazz – Roma-French style of jazz
 Gypsy punk – Romani style of punk rock

H
 Habanera – African-American style based on Cuban contredanza
 Halling – Norwegian folk music made to accompany the dance of the same name
 Hambo – Swedish folk music made to accompany the dance of the same name
 Hamburger Schule – style of alternative rock based in Hamburg, Germany
 Happy hardcore – incredibly fast, upbeat, and optimistic style of hardcore techno
 Yaraví a style of Ecuatorian folk music, slow tempo and Andean origin
 Hard bop – style of bebop informed by gospel, R&B and blues
 Hard rock – Loud, bluesy, distorted, and technically proficient form of rock
 Hard trance – heavy, reverberating style of trance music
Hardcore hiphop – aggressive and confrontational form of hip hop
 Hardcore punk – heavy metal-informed style of punk
 Hardcore techno – style of techno known for distorted, industrial-esque beats
 Hardstep – gritty, heavy style of drum & bass
 Hardstyle – intense, heavy style of EDM known for its heavy kick-drums and reversed basslines
 Dubstyle – fusion of dubstep and hardstyle
 Hasapiko – Greek folk dance music, originating in Constantinople
 Hát tuồng (Hát bôi) – Vietnamese opera
 Heartland rock – style of rock known for its minimalism, straightforwardness, and concern with the American working class
 Heavy metal – technically proficient, fast-paced, aggressive form of hard rock
 Hi-NRG – uptempo, fast-paced style of EDM known for a reverberating, four-on-the-floor rhythm
 Highlife – Ghanan style that married traditional African forms with Western pop
 Hiina muusika – any music performed by Chinese people
 Hiina rokk – rock music performed by Chinese people, often fused with traditional styles
 Hindustani classical – Northern Indian classical music
Hiphop – combination of funk, poetry and innovative DJ techniques, particularly sampling of pre-recorded material
 Hip house – fusion of hip hop and house music
 Hiphop
 Hiplife – fusion of highlife and hip hop
 Hiragasy – style of music and dance performed by troupes of relatives for day-long periods by the Merina people of Madagascar
 Honky-tonk – crisp, clean form of country
 Honkyoku – religious music performed by Japanese Zen Buddhists
 Hora – Romani folk music
 Hora lungă – improvisational Romani folk music
 Hornpipe – music played to accompany the British naval dance of the same name
 Horror punk – punk that is lyrically inspired by 1950s horror B-movies, often in an ironic way
 Horrorcore – hip hop known for dark, horror-inspired lyrics
 House – a relaxed, disco-informed style of EDM
 Huayño – Peruvian folk music
 Huella – folk Music from Argentina and Uruguay
 Hula – Hawaiian folk music made to accompany the dance of the same name
 Humppa – Finnish jazz style
 Hunguhungu – folk music performed by Garifuna women
 Hyangak – Korean court music from the Three Kingdoms period
 Hyphy – fast-paced style of hip hop from the San Francisco Bay Area

I
 Icaro – music sung in healing ceremonies of the Shipibo-Conibo people of Peru
 East Coast blues – umbrella term for any blues music made by inhabitants of the American East Coast, usually used to refer to the New York or Piedmont scenes
 East Coast hip hop – any hip hop produced by inhabitants of New York
 Igbo – any music performed by the Igbo people of Nigeria
 Irish folk – traditional music of the Irish people
 Illbient – form of ambient inspired by dub in its use of layering and hip hop in its use of sampling
 Impressionist – style of Western art music inspired by the visual arts movement of the same name
 Improvisational – any kind of music that is made up on the spot
 Indie – music that is formed around an idea of remaining on the underground and a DIY ethic
 Indie folk – fusion of indie rock and folk music
 Indie pop – a melodic, often angst-free and optimistic, form of pop-rock associated with the indie scene
 Indie rock – generic term for rock music linked to the indie subculture
 Indietronica – fusion of indie rock and EDM
 Indo jazz – fusion of jazz and traditional Indian music
Industriaalne hiphop – fusion of industrial and hip hop music
 Industriaal metal – fusion of industrial and heavy metal music
 Industrial death metal – fusion of industrial and death metal
 Industrial – early form of electronica that linked avant-garde electronic experimentation to punk rock energy, vocalisation, and ethics. Industrial spawned an indulgence in darkness, horror, and even fascism (although often not seriously) that carried over into goth, emo, and metalhead culture
 Industriaal muusikal – musical theater performed by the workers of a company to promote teamwork
 Industriaal rock – fusion of industrial and rock music
 Instrumentaalrokk – any rock music that neglects vocals
 Instrumental – music that had no lyrics
 Intelligent dance – more experimental and intellectual form of electronica so called to distinguish itself from the commercialist trends in rave music
 Inuit – any music performed by the Inuit people of Greenland and Canada
 Irish rebel – Irish folk with an emphasis on Irish republicanism
 Isicathamiya – a cappella form of singing used by the Zulu people of South Africa
 Islamic music
 Italo dance – an optimistic form of Eurodance that developed in Italy
 Italo disco – form of disco developed in Italy that lead to the creation of modern EDM
 Italo house – Italian house music that followed on from Italo disco

J
 J-Pop – pop music made by the Japanese
 Jaipongan – music made to accompany the dance of the same name of Sundanese people of Indonesia
 Jam – a type of band that plays long instrumental tracks, often improvised, called 'jams'
 Jangle pop – style of indie pop known for its uplifting, 'jangly' sounds
 Japanoise – noise music from Japan
 Jarana yucateca – traditional Yucatán dance music
 Jarocho – Mexican dance and song style from Veracruz
 Jazz fusion – any music that fuses something with jazz, particularly jazz-rock
 Jazz rap – fusion of jazz and hip hop
 Jazz-funk – fusion of jazz and funk music
 Jazz – a type of music that originated in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Southern United States
 Jenkka – Finnish folk dance music
 Jesus – style of CCM developed by the American hippie-based Jesus Movement
 Jig – uptempo Irish folk dance music
 Jing ping – Dominican folk dance music developed by slave during European colonialism
 Jingle – short, catchy song used in advertising
 Jit – Zimbabwean pop music
 Jitterbug – any music that accompanied the dance of the same name
 Jive – swing music used to accompany the African-American ballroom dance of the same name
 Joged – Balinese dance music
 Joig – style of Sami folk music
 Joropo – Venezuelan waltz
 Jota – Spanish folk dance music
 Jug – African-American folk music made from household objects such as jugs, spoons, and washboards
 Incidental – music played in the background of a film or play
 Jùjú – Nigerian pop music
 Juke joint blues – fusion of blues and soul
 Jump blues – uptempo blues music played with horns
 Jumpstyle – faster form of progressive house
 Junkanoo – Bahamas folk dance music
 juugend

K
 K-pop – South Korean pop music
Kabareemuusika – an often jazz-informed style of music played at upbeat stageplays or burlesque shows
 Kabuki – form of Japanese musical theatre known for its elaborate make-up and costuming
 Kacapi suling – Sundanese folk music
 Kachāshī – fast-paced Ryukyuan festive folk music
 Kaiso – Trinidadian folk music
 Kalamatianó – Greek folk music
Kammerdžäss – fusion of chamber and jazz music
 Kammerpop – Fusion of alternative rock and chamber music
 Kan ha diskan – Breton folk music
 Kansas City blues – blues music performed by Kansas City inhabitants
 Kantrum – fast-paced Khmer-Thai folk music
 Karaoke - a form of entertainment, offered typically by bars and clubs, in which people take turns singing popular songs
 Kaseko – Surinamese music that fuses African, European, and American styles
 Kawachi ondo – Japanese folk music from the Osaka region
 Kawaii metal - Fusion of heavy metal and J-pop
 Kayōkyoku – an early form of J-Pop
 Kecak – Balinese folk opera
 Keldi fusioon – popular music that includes a Celtic influence
Keldi hiphop – fusion of Celtic and hip hop music
 Keldi metal – fusion of Celtic and heavy metal music
 Keldi muusika – folk music of the Celts, an ethnic group inhabiting Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, some parts of France and Spain, and once England
 Keldi punk – fusion of Celtic and punk rock music
 Keldi reggae – fusion of Celtic and reggae music
 Keldi rokk – fusion of Celtic and rock music
 Kertok – Malay musical ensemble utilizing xylophones
 Khaleeji – Arab folk music
 Khene – Malay woodwind music
 Khyal – North Indian form of Hindustani classical music
 Kirtan – Indian drum music performed during Hindu bhakti rituals
 Kiwi rock – rock music performed by New Zealanders
 Kizomba – Angolan folk dance music
 Klapa – Croatian a cappella music
 Klasik – Afghan classical music
 klassikaline naisbluus
 klassikalis-romantiline stiil
 Klezmer – Jewish classical music
 Kliningan – Sundanese folk dance music
 Kolomyjka – tongue-in-cheek Hutsul folk dance music
 Komagaku – Japanese court music from the Heian period
 Kpanlogo – Ghanan folk dance music
 Kpop – South Korean pop music
 Krakowiak – fast-paced Polish folk dance music
 Krautrock – highly experimental form of German art rock that incorporated electronic influences
 Kriti – Indian classical music
 Kroncong – Indonesian folk music utilizing the ukele
 Kuduro – Angolan folk music
 Kulintang – ancient gong music of the Filipinos, Indonesians, Malays, Bruneian, and Timorese
 Kundiman – Filipino love songs
 Kvæði – Icelandic folk music
 Kwaito – South African house music
 Kwassa kwassa – Congolese folk dance music
 Kwela – South African skiffle music

L
 Modern laïka – modernized and pop-informed style of laïka
 Laiko – Greek folk dance music
 Lambada – Brazilian dance music
 Landó
 Latin metal – A genre of heavy metal with Latin origins, influences, and instrumentation, such as Spanish vocals, Latin percussion and rhythm such as Salsa rhythm
 Latin music – Spanish- and Portuguese-language popular music
 Latin pop – fusion of pop music and Latin American music or any pop music from the Spanish-speaking world
 Latin swing – a fusion of gypsy jazz rhythms and Latin music, including flamenco, samba and salsa. Created and played by Lulo Reinhardt, Germany
 Lavani – style of traditional Indian music performed in Maharashtra
 Legényes – Hungarian and Romanian folk dance music performed by the inhabitants of Transylvania, now modern-day Cluj-Napoca
 Letkajenkka – Finnish folk dance music
 Lhamo – Tibetan folk opera
 Lied – German poems spoken to music
 Light – soft, non-confrontational British orchestral music
 Liquid funk – form of drum and bass with a heavy emphasis on melody
 Christian electronic – EDM with Christian themes
 Musica llanero – Venezuelan and Colombian folk music
 Lo-fi muusika – any music recorded at a quality lower than usual
 Logobi – form of zouglou influenced by the French colonists in the Ivory Coast
 Loncomeo – musical style from the tehuelche people in Argentina
 Long song – Mongolian folk music in which each syllable is extended for a longer than average period of time
 Louisiana blues – any blues performed by inhabitants of the state of Louisiana
 Lounge – downtempo music intended to give the listener a sense of being somewhere else, i.e. a jungle or outer space
 Lovers rock – form of reggae fusion known for its romantic lyrics
 Lowercase – extreme form of ambient music consisting of long periods of silence and occasional, very minute sounds
 Lu – Tibetan a cappella music
 Lubbock sound – fusion of rock and roll and country music from Lubbock, Texas
 Luk Krung – more polished form of luk thung
 Luk thung – Thai folk music
 Lundu – harmonious style of Afro-Brazilian music
 Lust - romantic retro 80's music

M
 M-Base – style of musical thought and composition developed by Steve Coleman
 Madchester – fusion of EDM, psychedelic rock, and indie rock
 Mahori – form of Thai and Khmer classical music
 Makossa – Cameroonian pop
 Malambo – Argentinan and Uruguayan style of folk music dance
 Malhun – Arab folk poetry
 Malhun – north African style of classical music that borrows from Andalusian traditions
 Maloya – style of folk developed by the slaves on the French territory of Reunion
 Mambo – Cuban style of jazz
 Manaschi – Kyrgyz song recital of the Epic of Manas
 Mandopop – style of C-pop sung in the Mandarin language
 Manele – Romani folk music
 Mangue Bit – Brazilian electronic genre played in a fast-paced, punk-informed style
 Manila Sound – fusion of Western rock music and traditional Filipino folk music
 Mapouka – traditional folk dance music of the Aizi, Alladian, and Avikam people of the Ivory Coast
 Marabi – South African style informed by blues and jazz
 Maracatu – Brazilian folk dance music
 Mariachi – fusion of Mexican folk music and pop music
 Marinera – romantic Peruvian folk dance music
 Marrabenta – Mozambican folk dance music informed by Portuguese styles
 Martial industrial – style of neo-folk informed by military marches and militaristic themes
 Martinetes – a cappella flamenco music
 Maskanda – South African folk music
 Mass – Christian hymns sung by large vocal groups
 Matamuerte – Garifuna folk dance music
 Math rock – rhythmically complex form of experimental rock
 Mathcore – fusion of metalcore and math rock
 Maxixe – Brazilian folk dance music
 Mazurka – Polish folk dance music
 Mbalax – Senegalese folk dance music that combines traditional sabar drumming techniques with jazz, soul, rock, and Latin music
 Mbaqanga – Zulu jazz style that was one of the first South African genres to achieve intertribal recognition
 Mbube – South African a cappella music
 Medieval folk rock – form of folk rock that incorporated elements of earlier folk traditions, such as Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, despite what the name may suggest
 Medieval metal – fusion of folk metal and Medieval folk rock
 Keskaja muusika – period of Western art music ranging from the 6th to 15th centuries
 Meditation – any music created to aid meditation procedures
 Mejoranera – Panaman guitar music
 Melam – Indian drumming style
 Melodic hardcore – style of hardcore punk known for its slower, melodic guitars, juxtaposed with shouted vocals
 Melodic metalcore – fusion of melodic hardcore and metalcore
 Melodic – any music that utilizes melody, the combination of notes so that they are perceived as a single string of music
 Memphis blues – style of blues from Memphis
 Memphis soul – polished, funky style of soul from Memphis
 Mento – Jamaican folk music
 Merengue – Dominican folk dance music
 Merengue típico – style of modern merengue that attempts to sound similar to 19th century merengue
 Méringue – Haitian guitar music
 Metalcore – fusion of thrash metal and hardcore punk; often sung melodically
 Mexican rock – rock music performed by Mexicans
 Meykhana – Azerbaijani spoken word music
 Mezwed – Tunisian folk music
 Miami bass – rave-inspired style of hip hop
 Microhouse – minimalist, stripped down form of house music
 Milonga – Argentinian and Uruguayan folk dance music
 Milongón – Uruguayan folk music
 Min'yō – Japanese folk music
 Mini-jazz – rock-inspired meringue music
 Minimal Goa
 Minimal music – heavily experimental form of orchestral music known for its simplicity
 Minimal techno – fusion of techno and minimal music
 Minneapolis sound – glam-informed style of dance-rock pioneered by Prince
 Minstrel – American folk music which parodied African-American styles
 Minuet – French folk dance music
 Modern rock – any rock music (usually alternative rock) made during or after the 1990s
 Modinha – Brazilian folk music
 Montuno – loose term for Cuban music and its derivatives
 Moombahcore – moombahton incorporating dubstep influences and elements of Dutch house
 Moombahton – fusion of electro house and reggaeton
 Mor lam sing – fast-paced, sexual, and modernized form of mor lam
 Mor lam – Laotian and Thai folk music
 Morenada – folk music and dance style from the Bolivian Andes
 Morna – Cape Verdean folk music
 Motown – slick, pop-informed form of soul music
 Mozambique of Cuba – Cuban folk dance music
 Mozambique of America – American derivative of the Cuban style of the same name
 Mugham – Azerbaijan classical music
 Murga – Uruguayan and Argentinian folk dance music
 Mushroom Jazz – eclectic genre that draws from downtempo, hip hop, and world styles
 Requiem
 Music hall – English popular music of the 19th century
 Kaba – Southern Albanian instrumental folk music
 Breton – folk music of Brittany, France, known for its use of woodwind
 Tinga
 Jawaiian – fusion of Hawaiian traditional music and reggae
 J-Rock – rock music made by Japanese performers
 Música criolla – Peruvian music informed by African, European, and Andean styles
 Música popular brasileira – loose term for Brazilian pop music
 Sertanejo – folk music from the East of Brazil
 Musique concrète – heavily experimental orchestral music known for its use of electronic instruments
 Muwashshah – Arabic musical poetry

N
 Nagauta – Japanese music that accompanies kabuki theater
 Nakasi – Japanese and Taiwanese folk music
 Nangma – Tibetan EDM
 Nanguan music – Chinese classical music that is heavily influenced by Western styles
 Narcocorrido – Mexican polka-influenced folk music with lyrics focusing on illegal activity
 Nardcore – hardcore and skate punk subgenre based in Oxnard, California
 Narodna muzika – Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian folk music
 Nashville sound – a slick, pop-informed 'radio friendly' form of American country music that began in Nashville, Tennessee
 National socialist black metal – black metal with lyrics supporting national socialism, fascism, and other far-right ideologies
 Nederpop – Dutch pop music
 Neo soul – alternative form of hip hop soul that focused on more soulful and emotive vocals and lyrics
 Neo-classical metal – fusion of neoclassical and heavy metal music
 Neo-Medieval – music that attempts to imitate Medieval and earlier periods of classical music
 Neo-progressive rock – highly theatrical, emotional, and clean subgenre of progressive rock
 Neo-psychedelia – loose term for music inspired by psychedelic and acid rock
 Neoclassical New Age – fusion of neoclassical and new age music
 Neoclassical dark wave – fusion of neoclassical and dark wave music
 Neoklassitsism – orchestral music of the early 20th century
 Neofolk – fusion of folk rock and post-industrial music
 Neotraditional country – alternative country music that attempts to imitate pre-Nashville 'traditional' country
 Nerdcore – hip hop with lyrics concerning typically 'nerdy' subjects
 Neue Deutsche Härte – German fusion style that mainly takes elements of industrial and groove metal, as well as techno and alternative rock
 Neue Deutsche Todeskunst – German dark wave and Gothic rock
 Neue Deutsche Welle – German punk and new wave music
 Neurofunk – more advanced form of techstep
 New Beat – Belgian downtempo and acid house
 New jack swing (or swingbeat) – slickly produced fusion of soul, pop, dance, and hip hop music
 New Orleans blues – Dixieland- and Caribbean-informed style of blues from New Orleans
 New Orleansi džäss
 New rave – fusion of alternative rock and EDM
 New school hip hop – hip hop music made after the mid-80s
 New prog – more ambitious and alternative rock-inspired form of progressive rock
 New Taiwanese Song – Taiwanese pop music
 New wave – early form of punk-informed synthpop
 New wave of new wave – 1990s British revival of new wave music
 New Weird America – term for the, often psychedelic-informed, indie folk music of the 2000s
 New York blues – a jazz-influenced style of blues from New York, New York
 New-age – form of ambient music intended for use during meditation
 Nintendocore – fusion of chiptune and metalcore
 Nisiotika – Greek folk music from the Aegean Islands
 No wave – avant-garde punk subgenre created as a reaction to the commercial new wave
 Noh – long, highly dramatic Japanese opera
 Noise – trend in orchestral, rock, and electronic music where harsh, non-melodic, and often random sounds are used alongside or in place of conventional sounds
 Noise pop – derivative of noise rock in which noises and feedback are used, but made into a melodic, often relaxing sound
 Noise rock – loud, atonal, dissonant, and unconventional rock music
 Nordic folk – folk music of the Nordic people
 Nortec – Mexican EDM
 Norteño – Mexican folk music
 Northern soul – soul music made by northern English
 Nu gaze – new form of Shoegaze
 Nu jazz – modern jazz music that borrows from funk and EDM
 Nu metal – fusion of thrash, groove, and alternative metal that also borrows elements from punk, industrial, grunge, and hip hop
 Nu skool breaks – a more abstract and drum & bass-inspired style of breakbeat
 Nu-disco – modern house music that draws inspiration from disco
 Nu-funk

O
 Obscuro
 Oi! – 1980s style of British punk rock
 Old school hip hop – generic term for hip hop music recorded before approximately 1989
 Old Time Radio – Old Time Radio Shows from the 30's – 60's
 Old-time – archaic term for many different styles that were an outgrowth of Appalachian folk music and fed into country music
 Oldies – Popular music from the 50's and 60's.
 Jungle – style of EDM known for fast tempo, breakbeats, samples, and dub-inspired layered synths
 Olonkho – Yakut epic songs
 Ondo
 Operatic Pop – subgenre of pop music that is performed in a classical operatic style (also referred to as "Popera")
 Organ trio – a style of jazz from the 1960s that blended blues and jazz (and later "soul jazz") and which was based around the sound of the Hammond organ
 Organic ambient – often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music
 Oriental metal – a subgenre of folk metal that incorporates elements of traditional Middle Eastern music.
 Ottava rima – Italian rhyming stanzas
 Ottoman military band – the oldest variety of military marching band in the world. 
 Outlaw country – late 1960s and 70s form of country music with a hard-edged sound and rebellious lyrics
 Outsider music – generic term for music performed by outsiders

P
 P-Funk – 1970s fusion of funk, heavy metal and psychedelic rock, most closely associated with the bands Funkadelic and Parliament, who shared many members collectively known as P-Funk Pagan metal
 Pagan rock
 Pagode – Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region
 Paisley Underground – 1980s style of alternative rock that drew heavily on psychedelia
 Palm wine – fusion of numerous West African, Latin American and European genres, popular throughout coastal West Africa in the 20th century
 Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
 Panambih – tembang sunda that uses metered poetry
 Panchai baja – Nepalese wedding music
 Panchavadyam – Temple music from Kerala, India
 Pansori – Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer
 Paraguayan polka
 Paranda – Garifuna form of music
 Paranda – Garifuna music of Belize
 Parang – Trinidadian Christmas carols
 Parody – humorous renditions of existing songs or styles
 Parranda – Afro-Venezuelan form of music
 Pärsia traditsionaalne muusika
 Partido alto
 Pasacalle
 Pasillo
 Pasodoble
 Patriotic
 Payada
 PBR&B
 Peace Punk
 Pelimanni music – Finnish folk dance music
 Musiqi-e assil – Persian orchestral music
 Peruvian cumbia – also known as chicha music.
 Petenera
 Peyote Song – a mixture of gospel and traditional Native American music
 Philadelphia soul – soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 Piano blues
 Piedmont blues - Blues music from the East Coast of the United States. Characterized by syncopated fingerpicked guitar playing and ragtime-based rhythms.
 Pimba – Origin: Portugal.
 Pinoy rock – rock and roll sung in Tagalog from the Philippines
 Pinpeat orchestra
 Piphat – ancient form of Thai classical ensemble
 Pirate metal – mix of heavy metal and pirate music
 Piyyutim
 Plainchant (Gregorian chant)
 Plena
 Pleng phua cheewit – Thai protest rock
 Pleng Thai sakorn – a Thai interpretation of Western classical music
 Polka – French music style originated in paris in 1844
 Polo – Venezuelan folk music
 Pols – Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
 Polska
 Pong lang
 Pop folk
 Pop music
 Pop punk
 Pop rap
 Pop rock
 Pop sunda – Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
 Pornocore
 Porro – Colombian big band music
 Post-Britpop
 Post-disco
 Post-dubstep
 Post-grunge
 Post-hardcore – A metal style that often utilizes screaming and melodic vocal techniques as well as dynamic range
 Post-industrial
 Post-metal
 Post-minimalism
 Post-punk
 Post-rock
 Post-romanticism
 Pow-wow – Native American dance music
 Powada- Marathi Folk
 Power duo
 Death industrial – fusion of death and industrial metal, linked heavily to the power electronics scene
 Power electronics
 Power metal – A style of heavy metal with melodic vocals, symphonic context and with fantastic or mythical lyrics
 Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
 Power pop
 Power trio
 Powerviolence (also known as power violence)
 Ppongtchak – Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation
 Program symphony
 Progressiivne bluegrass
 Progressiivne elektrooniline muusika
 Progressiivne folkmuusika
 Progressiivne house
 Progressiivne metal – A subgenre of heavy metal and progressive rock.
 Progressiivne rokk – A subgenre of rock music with origins of jazz fusion and psychedelic rock.
 Progressiivne trance
 Protopunk
 Psühhedeelne folk
 Psühhedeelne muusika
 Psühhedeelne rokk – A style of rock music that relates to psychedelia.
 Psühhedeelne trance (Psy-trance)
 Full on trance – style of psychedelic trance known for its rolling baselines and confrontational themes
 Minimal trance – fusion of psychedelic trance and minimal music
 Psychobilly
 Psychobilly – Punk rock and country
 UK pub rock
 Pub rock – back-to-basics rock music, see Pub rock (Australia) and Pub rock (United Kingdom).
 Pungmul – a Korean folk music tradition that includes drumming, dancing, and singing.
 Punk blues – a US music genre that developed in the 1980s, which mixes elements of blues with the aggressive sound of punk.
 Punk jazz
 Punk rock A subgenre of rock music known for its raw and distorted sound, usually fast and short songs, and lyrics of angst or anti-establishment.
 Punta rock – 1970s Belizean music
 Punta
 Liquindi – style of percussion performed by the various 'pygmy' peoples of Africa in which drummers stand in a body of water and hit the surface

Q
 Qasidah modern – Qasidah updated for mainstream audiences
 Qasidah – Epic religious poetry accompanied by percussion and chanting
 Qawwali – Sufi religious music updated for mainstream audiences, was originated in India
 Quadrille
 Quan ho – Vietnamese vocal music which originated in the Red River Delta
 Queercore
 Quiet Storm

R
 Raga rock – Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion
 Raga
 Ragga Jungle
 Raggamuffin ehk ragga''
 Raï'n'B
 Rai – Algerian folk music now developed into a popular style
 Raicore
 Rake-and-scrape – Bahamanian instrumental music
 Ramkbach
 Ramvong
 Ranchera – pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks
 Rapso - A poetic "rap" form of Trinbagonian music—the next evolutionary step of Calypso and Soca.
 Rara
 Rare groove - Gujarati music and dance
 Rasguido doble
 Rasiya
 Ravanahatha- Ravana music
 Rebetiko
 Red Dirt (music)
 reel
 Refalosa – Sudamerican music style of dance
 Reggae dancehall (see Dancehall)
 Reggae fusion
 Reggae highlife
 Reggae
 Reggaeton
 Boenke-Boenke 
 Rekilaulu – Finnish rhyming sleigh songs
 Religious
 Rembetiko
 Renessanssi muusika
 Retro
 Rhapsody
 Rhumba
 Rhyming spiritual – Bahamanian hymns
 Rhythm and blues (R&B)
 Ricercar
 Harmonica blues – blues music that utilizes the Richter-tuned harmonica
 Rímur – Icelandic heroic epic songs
 Riot grrrl
 Rock and roll
 Rock en español
 Rokk
 Rockabilly
 Rocksteady
 Rokkooper
 Romantic period in music
 Ronggeng – a folk music from Malacca, Malaysia
 Roots reggae
 Roots rock reggae
 Roots rock

S
 Sabar – drumming style found in Senegal
 Salsa erotica – lyrically explicit form of salsa romantica
 Salsa – fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in New York City
 Salsa romantica – a soft, romantic form of salsa music
 Saltarello
 Samba-canção – traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero
 Samba-reggae – a genre of samba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm.
 Samba-rock
 Samba – form of Brazilian popular music
 Sambai
 Sambass
 Sangueo – folk music style from Venezuela with African origins
 Sanjo – Korean instrumental folk music
 Sanjuanito – folk music from Ecuador
 Sârbă – Romanian folk dance style
 Sardana – Traditional Music of Catalonia
 Sato kagura
 Sawt – urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
 Schlager
 Scrumpy and Western – folk music from West Country of England
 Scuff
 Sea shanty – English folk music of the sea
 Sean nós – Sean-nós singing style of Ireland
 Seapunk
 Sega music
 Seggae
 Seis – type of Puerto Rican dance music
 Tsjingel Tsjangel
 Semba – traditional type of music from Angola
 Sephardic music
 Set dance
 Sevdalinka – Bosnian urban popular music
 Sevillana
 Shabad
 Shalako – Armenian folk dance
 Shan'ge – Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
 Shango
 Shape note
 Shibuya-kei
 Shidaiqu – Hong Kong-based form of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in Mandarin
 Shima-uta – folk songs from the Amami Islands, Japan
 Shock rock
 Shoegaze – British pop
 Shoka – Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
 Shomyo – Japanese Buddhist chanting
 Show tune
 Sica
 Siguiriyas
 Silat – Malaysian mixture of music, dance and martial arts
 Sinawi – Korean religious music meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of jazz
 Singer-songwriter
 Situatsiooniline muusika – pertaining to songs describing the current situation; most prevalent in films
 Ska punk
 Ska
 Ska
 Skald
 Skate punk
 Skiffle
 Skullstep
 Skweee
 Skyladiko pop folk music style of Greece
 Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) – Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
 Slängpolska
 Slide
 Slowcore
 Sludge metal – A subgenre of heavy metal with slow-tuned tempos, abrasive distortion and harsh vocals
 Smooth jazz
 Soca
 Soft rock
 Son cubano
 Son montuno – Cuban folk music
 Son nica – Nicaraguan folk music
 Son-batá (batá rock)
 Songo – a mixture of changuí and son montuno
 Songo-salsa – a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa
 Sophisti-pop
 Šoti barokkmuusika
 Šoti muusika
 Soukous
 Soul blues
 Soul jazz
 Soul music – form of African-American music with elements of gospel and doo-wop
 Southern Gospel
 Southern Harmony
 Southern hip hop
 Southern metal
 Southern rock
 Southern soul
 Space age pop
 Space disco
 Space music
 Space rock
 Spectralism
 Speed garage
 Speed metal
 Speedcore
 Spirituals
 Spouge – Barbadian folk music
 Sprechgesang
 Square dance
 St. Louis blues
 Steelband
 Stoner metal
 Stoner rock
 Straight edge
 Strathspeys
 Stride
 String – 1980s Thai pop music
 Haqibah – Sudanese a cappella music
 Sufi music
 Suite
 Sunshine pop
 Suomirock
 Super Eurobeat
 Surf music
 Surf ballads
 Surf instrumental
 Surf pop
 Surf rock
 Süüria pop muusika - pop, folk and dance music informed by traditional Assyrian styles.
 Swamp blues
 Swamp pop
 Swamp rock
 Swing music
 Sygyt – type of xoomii (Tuva throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
 Symphonic black metal
 Symphonic metal
 Symphonic poem
 Symphonic rock
 Symphony
 Synthpop
 Synthwave (1980s genre)
 Synthwave (2000s genre)

T
 T'ong guitar – acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
 Taarab
 Tai tu – Vietnamese chamber music
 Taiwanese pop – early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners
 Talempong – a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
 Talking blues
 Tambito – Folk music style from Costa Rica and Panama
 Tamborito – Folk music style from Panama
 Tambu – music genre and dance form, found on Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao
 Tamburitza
 Tamil Christian keerthanai – Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil
 Táncház – Hungarian dance music
 Tango – Argentine popular music that spread internationally in the 1920s
 Tanguk – a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
 Elevator music – comfortable and soothing music designed for and played in shopping malls, usually elevators therein, to create a sense of ambience and comfort
 Tappa
 Taquirari – traditional music and dance from Santa Cruz Bolivia
 Taqwacore
 Tarana – form of vocal music from northern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
 Tarantella
 Taranto
 Tech House
 Tech Trance
 Technical death metal
 Technical metal
 Techno
 Technoid
 Techstep
 Techtonik
 Tecno brega
 Teen pop – A subgenre of pop music targeted towards pre-teen and teenage listeners
 Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with norteño
 Tembang sunda – Sundanese sung free verse poetry
 Texas blues
 Theme music
 Thillana – form of vocal music from South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
 Third Stream – jazz and classical music fusion style.
 Third Wave Ska
 Thirty-two-bar form
 Thrash metal – A heavy metal subgenre known for its fast tempos, screaming vocals, extended guitar solos and aggressive lyrics.
 Thrashcore
 Thumri – a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
 Tibetan pop – pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
 Tientos – style of organ music from the 15th century in Spain
 Timbila – form of folk music in Mozambique
 Tin Pan Alley
 Tinku – traditional music and dance from Potosi Bolivia
 Toeshey – Tibetan dance music
 Togaku
 Tondero – folk music style from Peru
 Nordic folk dance – upbeat style of Nordic folk
 Traditional pop music
 Trallalero – Genoese urban songs
 Trance
 Trap music
 Tribal house
 Trikitixa – Basque accordion music
 Trip hop
 Trival
 tropical house - A mix of reggae and house sounds originated in the late 2000s
 Tropical music – Música tropical
 Tropicalia
 Tropipop
 Truck-driving country
 Chastushka – humorous and fast-paced Russian and Ukrainian folk music
 Tšellorokk – rock music that incorporates cellos
 Tumba
 Turbo-folk – aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
 Turkish Music
 Turntablism
 Kargyraa – deep, growling form of Tuvan throat singing
 Khoomei – soft, droning form of Tuvan throat singing
 Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) – a type of Tuvan throat singing
 Tuvan throat-singing
 Twee pop
 Jazz blues – fusion of jazz and blues music
 Twist (also a dance style, early 1960s)

U
 UK garage
 UK hard house
 Hard house – fusion of hardstyle and house music
 UK hardcore
 Ülistuslaulud
 Unblack metal (also known as Christian black metal)
 Underground music
 Uplifting Trance
 Urban Cowboy
 Uus Viini koolkond

V
 Free improvisation – completely uncontrolled improvisation
 Vallenato – accordion-based Colombian folk music
 Ancient – music created in the early stages of literate cultures.
 Vaporwave
 Verbunkos – Hungarian folk music
 Verismo
 Vidala
 Vidalita
 Video game music – Melodic music as defined by its media.
 Viking metal
 Villanella – 16th century Neapolitan songs
 Visual Kei - Japanese music scene, created around the 1980s
 Visual music
 Vocal house
 Vocal jazz
 Vocal music
 Vocaloid
 Volksmusik
 German folk – any folk music performed by Germans
 Vomitstep - Electronic subgenre popularized by the artist Snails

W
 Waila (chicken scratch) – a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
 Wangga – Australian aboriginal music genre
 Warabe uta
 Wassoulou
 Were music
 West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music which originates in the westernmost region of the United States
 Western blues
 Western swing
 Witch house
 Wizard rock
 Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music—1970s lesbian/feminist
 Wong shadow – 1960s Thai pop music
 Street bass
 Wonky
 Wood Sounds of organic synthesis recorded on organic medium such as tape.
 World music
 Worldbeat

X
 Xhosa music
 Xote – is a Brazilian music genre and dance for pairs or groups of four.
 Yass – a style of Polish jazz music from the 1980s and 1990s.

Y
 Yayue
 Yé-yé
 Yo-pop
 Yodeling
 Youth crew
 Yukar

Z
 Zajal
 Zamacueca – Peruvian folk dance of African origins and precursor of Zamba
 Zamba – Argentinian folk dance and music genre
 Zamrock
 Zapin – derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
 Zarzuela – a form of Spanish operetta
 Zef – South African music based in both rap & rave
 Zeibekiko – Greek Dance 9/8 Rytmus
 Zeuhl
 Ziglibithy
 Zouglou
 Zouk – French Caribbean (Guadeloupean) dance music
 Zouklove – Guadeloupean Music
 Zulu music
 Zydeco – popular Louisianan Creole music

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