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This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories.
When describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and are often religious, familial, or most frequently royal and aristocratic titles, used metaphorically.
Avant-garde music – music considered to be ahead of its time, often using new, unusual, or experimental elements, or fusing pre-existing genres. Avant-garde jazz – an avant-garde style of jazz made purposefully to challenge the conventions of the genre; related and originally synonymous with free jazz , avant-garde jazz still maintains some ...
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Music genre templates (7 C, 121 P) Pages in category "Music genres" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Wonky – music with shaky off-kilter beats that came out of the 90s. Work song; Worldbeat – a music genre that combines rock and pop music with music that is usually labeled as world music. World music – music originating outside the Western world (although the term has occasionally been applied to various forms of Western folk music).
Genealogical charts or family trees of musical genres show how new genres have emerged from existing genres and how multiple genres have contributed to a new genre. Since music can be endlessly broken down into smaller and smaller categories, a genealogical chart will usually focus on one major genre and its different strains.
List of dance-rock artists; List of dark ambient artists; List of descarga musicians; List of disco artists; List of disco artists (A–E) List of disco artists (F–K) List of disco artists (L–R) List of disco artists (S–Z) List of doo-wop musicians; List of downtempo artists; List of dream pop artists; List of drone artists; List of dub ...