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:
- Art music: classical music and opera.
- Music written for the score of a play, stage musical, operetta, zarzuela, film or similar: Filmi, incidental music, music hall songs and showtunes.
- Ballroom music: tango, pasodoble, cha cha cha and others.
- Religious music: gospel, Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns, Klezmer and the like.
- Military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions.
- 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.
- 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 the All Music Guide [1] genre categorisation.
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Avant-garde
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Blues
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Country
- Alternative country
- Country pop
- Country rock
- Honky tonk
- Progressive country
- Rockabilly
- Traditional country
- Western
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Easy listening
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Electronic
- Ambient
- Breakbeat
- Downbeat
- Dance
- Glitch
- Industrial music
- Progressive electronic
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Hip hop/Rap music
- Abstract hip hop
- Chicano Rap
- Crunk
- Dirty rap and Pornocore
- East coast hip hop
- Gangsta rap
- Grime
- Miami bass
- Political hip hop
- Turntablism
- West coast hip hop
- World hip hop
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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
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Latin
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Modern folk
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New Age
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Reggae
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Rhythm and blues
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Rock
- Alternative rock
- Blues rock
- C-Rock
- Dark cabaret
- Desert rock
- Garage Rock
- Glam rock
- Gothic rock
- Hard rock
- Heavy metal
- Industrial rock
- J-Rock
- New Wave
- Pop
- Adult contemporary music
- Adult oriented pop music
- Adult standards
- Afropop
- Arab pop
- Austropop
- Baroque pop
- Britpop
- Bastard pop
- Brazilian pop
- Bubblegum pop
- Chinese pop
- Contemporary Christian
- Country pop
- Dance-pop
- Disco
- Disco polo
- Dream pop
- Electropop/Technopop
- Eurobeat
- Euro disco
- Europop
- French pop
- Greek Laïkó pop
- Hindi pop
- Hong Kong and Cantonese pop
- Hong Kong English pop
- Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
- House-pop
- Indie 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 punk
- Pop rap
- Pop rock
- Power pop
- Psychedelic pop
- Russian pop
- Schlager
- Sophisti-pop
- Space age pop
- Sunshine pop
- Surf pop
- Synthpop
- Taiwanese pop
- Teen pop
- Thai pop
- Turkish pop
- Twee pop
- US pop
- Vispop
- Yugoslav pop
- Progressive rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Punk rock
- Rock and roll
- Southern rock
- Surf rock
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World
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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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