List of popular music genres

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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:

  1. Art music: classical music and opera.
  2. Music written for the score of a play, stage musical, 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.

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List of genres

African

(including many genres; not actually a genre itself)

Avant-Garde

Blues

Comedy music

Country

Easy listening

Electronic

Modern folk

Hip Hop & Rap

Jazz

Latin American

(including many genres; not actually a genre itself)

Pop

Rhythm & Blues

Rock

Ska

Other

References

  1. ^ [1] Allmusic web site

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