List of popular music genres
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This is a list of the commercially relevant genres in modern popular music. Applicable styles are classified in this list using AllMusic[1] genre categorisation.
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African
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Asian
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East Asian
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South and southeast Asian
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Avant-garde
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Blues
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Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced
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Comedy
Country
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Easy listening
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Electronic
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Folk
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Hip hop
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Jazz
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Latin
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Brazilian
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Pop
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R&B and soul
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Rock
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Exclusions
Genres or styles that are not contemporary or commercially marketed in substantial numbers have been excluded, as follows:
- Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes
- Ballroom dance music: tango, pasodoble, cha cha cha and others
- Religious music: Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns and the like
- Occasional music: Military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions
- Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music
References
External links
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.
