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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.
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Calypso music – a Trinidadian popular music genre inspired by both African (via Kaiso) and French styles and is known for its lyrics dealing with the racist oppression of native Trinidadians at the time. Calypso-style baila – a fusion of baila and calypso. Campursari – Indonesian fusion genre, combining several folk styles with pop music ...
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса
The term genre is generally defined similarly by many authors and musicologists, while the related term style has different interpretations and definitions. Some, like Peter van der Merwe, treat the terms genre and style as the same, saying that genre should be defined as pieces of music that share a certain style or "basic musical language". [7]
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados ...
As scholars note, dangdut is the most controversial genre regarding its relation to Indonesian Islamic morality, [13] and few popular music genres around the world are more focused on women's bodies than dangdut, [14] whose lyrics often portray women as sexual objects. [15] On the one side, within dangdut, a religious current (spiritual dangdut ...
العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)