List Of Music Genres

2-step garage
2 tone
4-beat
4x4 Garage UK garage also known as Bassline
8-bit
A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing
Acid Jazz - a combination of jazz,funk,and hip hop
Acid Rock - a form of psychedelic rock, characterized with long instrumental solos, few (if any) lyrics and musical improvisation
Acoustic Music - a music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
Afrobeat - a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s.
Aleatoric music - music the composition of which is partially left to chance
Alpine New Wave
Alternative country - reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound
Alternative dance - music combining elements of dance-pop (or other forms of electronic house or techno) and alternative rock genres such as indie rock.
Alternative hip hop - opposite of gangster rap, usually includes metaphorical aware lyrics (also known as alternative rap or Bohemian hip hop)
Alternative metal - catch-all term for heavy metal which uses techniques less conventional in heavy metal
Alternative rock - broad movement born in the 1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and operating outside of the mainstream
Ambient music - music that can either be listened to intently, or be played in the background and easily be ignored. often times used for relaxation and meditation.
Americana- style similar to folk music, but with elements of newer styles such as rock and rhythm and blues
Anime music - closely tied to J-pop but often accompanied by soundtrack albums
Anti-folk - sounds raw or experimental; it also generally mocks the seriousness and pretension of the established mainstream music scene in addition to mocking itself.
Acid House -came about in the mid to late 1980's, originally in Detroit and Chicago, came through Ibiza to Britain
Apala
Arabesque - A versatile collection of music fusing eastern folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres
Argentine rock
Ars antiqua - music of Europe of the late Middle Ages between approximately 1170 and 1310
Ars nova - music of the Late Middle Ages, centered in France, which encompassed the period roughly from 1310 to 1314
Art rock - rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture.
Ashiq - Azeri bards who sing and accompany themselves on a saz (a kind of lute)
Australian country music (see also Country music)
Australian pub rock
Australian hip hop
Australian humour
Avant-garde jazz - sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place.
Avant-garde metal - a subgenre of heavy metal music characterised by the use of innovative, avant-garde elements, large-scale experimentation, and the use of non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures.
Avant-garde music - used at different times to mean different kinds of music (usually art music) considered ahead of their time and containing new, unusual, or experimental ideas or elements or fusing different genres.
Art punk
Axé - pop music from Salvador, Bahia
Bachata - originated in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantical; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness.
Baggy
Baião - a Northeast Brazilian rhythmic formula that became the basis of a wide range of music.
Bajo la - upbeat,hard-edged,Rnb and tejano.
Bakersfield sound - gritty, hard-edged reaction against 1950s pop country (Nashville sound)
Bakshy - Turkmen folk music made by travelling musicians also called bakshy
Baila - Sri Lankan dance music derived from African slaves held by the Portuguese
Baile Funk - Brazilian dance music literally means "ball", as in "dance party", and "funk"
Baisha xiyue - a song and dance suite from the Naxi of Lijiang, China
Bajourou - Malian (Mali) pop music usually played at weddings and social gatherings.
Bakou - trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling
Bal-musette - a style of French music and dance which arose in 1880s Paris especially the 5th, 11th, and 12th districts.
Balakadri - a traditional quadrille music that was performed for balls on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Balinese Gamelan - A form of Gamelan native to Bali
Ballad - generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs
Ballata - an Italian poetic and musical form, which was in use from the late 13th to the 15th century.
Ballet (music)
Bamboo band - originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals
Bambuco - the "unofficial music of Colombia". Folk music accompanied by a stylized group dance in either a 6/8 or 3/4 meter.
Banda - Mexican brass norteño pop music invented in the 1960s
Bangsawan - a type of traditional Malay opera. It was known to have developed from a sort of Indian theatre performance during the 19th century by visiting Indian travellers.
Bantowbol
Barbershop music - a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture
Barndance
Baroque music - 17th-18th century European classical music
Bass music (Miami bass, Booty bass) - electro influenced form of hip hop dance music arising in Miami, Florida
Batá-rumba - a form of Rumba music popular mainly in Cuba
Batcave (club) - original gothic rock music.
Batucada - a substyle of samba and refers to an African influenced Brazilian percussive style, usually performed by an ensemble.
Batuco
Beach music - a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, jazz, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues, reggae, rockabilly and old-time rock and roll.
Beat - a fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul. Beat groups characteristically had simple guitar-dominated line-ups, with vocal harmonies and catchy tunes.
Beatboxing - Music performed by producing percussive and melodic sounds with the mouth alone, often mimicking instruments, recorded samples and other sounds not typically associated with vocalization.
Bebop - 1940s jazz style with complex improvisation and a fast tempo
Beiguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
Bel canto - Italian vocal style which arose in the late 16th century and which ended in the mid-19th century
Bend-skin - a kind of urban Cameroonian popular music.
Benga - a genre of Kenyan popular music
Bhajan - a Hindu religious song
Bhangra/pron. bhang-gruh - a genre from India. A type of popular dance music combining Punjabi folk traditions with Western pop music, fusing traditional drum-based music with elements of reggae, ragga, hip-hop, rock, soul, and dance.
Bhangra-wine
Bhangragga
Bhangramuffin
Big band music - large orchestras which play a form of swing music
Big Beat - 1990s electronic music based on breakbeat with other influences
Biguine - Guadeloupean folk music
Black ambient - blackened form of dark ambient music
Blackened death metal - a fusion between death and black metal
Black metal - highly distorted and swift form of heavy metal
Bluegrass - American country music mixed with Irish and Scottish influences
Blue-eyed soul - rhythm and blues or soul music performed by white artists.
Blues - African-American music from the Mississippi Delta area
Blues ballad - the sound of the blues using a blues scale and blues style chord progressions with a bridge using a different bluesy chord progression)
Blues-rock - a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles.
Biomusic - a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by living things.
Bitpop - electronic music, where at least part of the music is made using old 8-bit computers, game consoles and little toy instruments. Popular choices are the Commodore 64, Game Boy, Atari 2600 and Nintendo Entertainment System.
Bihu-a popular folk music of Assam,India
Bocet
Bohemian Dub - Contemporary music style that blends Hip Hop, Dub, Funk, Pop and Klezmer music
Boi - Central Amazonian folk music
Bolero - Spanish and Cuban dance and music
Bomba
Bombay pop
Bongo - distinctive African drum and style of drumming
Boogie woogie - style of piano-based blues popular in the 1940s US
Boogaloo - soul and mambo fusion popular in 1960s United States
Bossa nova
Bothy ballad - songs sung by farm labourers, specifically in the northeast region of Scotland.
Bouncy techno - a rave hardcore dance music style that developed from around 1992, mostly emanating from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Boy band
Brass band - a musical group generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
Brazilian funk
Brazilian jazz - bossa nova and samba mixed with American jazz
Breakbeat - a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These rhythms may be characterised by their intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythms.
Breakbeat hardcore - a derivate of acid house that combines 4-to-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with UK Rave scene.
Breakcore - an electronic music style that brings together elements of industrial, jungle, hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. It adheres to a loose set of stylistic rules.
Breton Music - traditionnal music of Brittany, France, that is played today yet, with pipes, drums and bombard. It's also reknown for its original and very ancient songs called "gwerz", or "kan ha diskan".
Brill Building Pop - named after New York's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway
Britfunk
Britpop
British blues
British Invasion - rock and roll, beat and pop performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States from 1964 to 1966.
Broken beat - an electronic music genre which can be characterized by syncopated rhythm typically in 4/4 metre, with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps.
Brown-eyed soul - a subgenre of soul music or rhythm and blues created in the United States mainly by Latinos in Southern California during the 1960s, continuing through to the early 1980s.
Brukdown - rural Belizean Kriol music
Bubblegum dance
Bubblegum pop - sometimes synonymous with pop music, especially that performed by teen idols; can also refer to specific styles of South African or Japanese pop
Bikutsi
Bulerias
Bumba-meu-boi
Bunraku - Japanese style originated from a kind of puppet-theater.
Burger-highlife
Burgundian School...
Ca din tulnic
Ca pe lunca
Ca trù - (hat a dao) Vietnamese folk music
Cabaret
Cadence
Cadence-lypso - guitar-dominated Cadence music combined with calypso horns
Cadence rampa
Café-aman
Cai luong - Vietnamese opera
Cajun music
Cakewalk
Calenda - Trinidadian drum dance
Calentanos - folk music of the Balsas River Basin, Mexico
Calgia - traditional urban ensemble music from Macedonia
Calipso - Venezuelan calypso music
Calypso - Trinidadian folk, and later pop, genre
Calypso-style baila - Sri Lankan baila mixed with calypso influences
Campursari - Indonesian modern folk music, a fusion of dangdut, langgam, and pop music
Campillaneros
Caña
Canatronic
Candombe
Canon
Canrock
Cantata
Cante chico
Cante jondo
Canterbury Scene
Cantiñas
Cantiga - Portuguese ballad form
Cantique
Canto livre - Portuguese modernized fado
Canto nuevo - Bolivian pop-folk music which evolved out of Chilean nueva cancion
Canto popular - Uruguayan singer-songwriter nativist music
Cantopop - western-style pop music from Hong Kong
Canzone napoletana - urban songs from Naples
Capoeira music
Caracoles
Carceleras
Cardas
Carimbó - dance music of Belém, Brazil
Cariso
Carnatic music - South Indian classical music
Carol
Cartageneras
Casséy-co
Cassette culture
Cavacha
CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)
Celempungan
Cello rock
Celtic
Celtic fusion
Celtic metal
Celtic punk
Celtic reggae
Celtic rock
Cha-cha-cha
Chakacha
Chamamé - Argentinian folk music
Chamber jazz
Chamber pop
Chamber music
Champeta - Colombian musical form derived from African communities in Cartagena
Chalga
Changuí
Chanson
Chant
Charanga
Charanga-vallenata - 1980s mixture of salsa, charanga and vallenata
Charikawi
Chastushki - humorous Russian folk songs
Chau van - Vietnamese trance music
Chemical breaks
Chèo
Chicago blues
Chicago house
Chicago jazz (Dixieland jazz)
Chicago soul
Chicha - a Peruvian fusion of rock and roll, cumbia and huayno
Chicken scratch - Arizona-based White American music
Chillout
Chillwave
Chimurenga (mbira)
Chinese music
Chinese rock - rock and roll from China / Taiwan, often with protest lyrics
Chip music
Chongak - Korean aristocratic chamber music
Chouval bwa
Chowtal
Cho-kantrum - the most traditional form of Cambodian kantrum
Chopera - Church Opera
Chorinho
Choro - Brazilian folk music
Christian alternative
Christian black metal (known as Unblack metal)
Christmas carol
Christian electronic music
Christian Hardcore
Christian hip hop
Christian Industrial
Christian metal
Christian music
Christian punk
Christian rock
Christian ska
Chylandyk - type of xoomii which sounds like the chirping of crickets
Chzalni
Chumba
Chut-kai-pang
Chutney - popular Indo-Caribbean music
Chutney-bhangra
Chutney-hip hop
Chutney-soca - Chutney mixed with calypso and other influences
Cigányzene
Classic country
Classic female blues - early popular form of blues
Classic rock
Classical music
Classical music era (~1730-1820), for what's popularly known as "classical music", see European classical music or List of musical movements
Clicks n Cuts
Close harmony
Club music
Cocobale
Coimbra fado - a form of refined fado from Coimbra, Portugal
Coladeira
Colombianas
Combined Rhythm - music of the Dutch Antilles
Comedy rap
Comedy rock
Comic opera
Comparsa
Compas direct
Compas meringue
Concert overture
Concerto
Concerto grosso
Congo - Panamanian dance music
Conjunto
Contemporary Africa music
Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)
Contemporary R&B
Contonbley
Contradanza
Cool jazz
Corrido - storytelling ballads from Mexico
Corsican polyphonic song
Cothoza mfana
Country blues
Country Gospel a.k.a. Christian Country
Country music
Country-rap
Country rock
Countrypolitan
Country pop
Coupé-Décalé
Couple de sonneurs - Breton dance music
Cowpunk
Crag
Crossover music
Crossover thrash
Crunk - American music
Crunkcore
Crust punk
Csárdás
Cuarteto - Argentinian folk music
Cuddlecore
Cueca
Cumbia - popular dance music, originally Colombian but now popular across Latin America, especially Mexico
Cumfa
Cumbia villera - Argentinian type of cumbia which contains marginal lyrics
Cybergrind
Dabka (Dabke) - Palestinian dance music for weddings
Dadra
Daina (Latvia) - Latvian sung poetry
Daina (Lithuania) - Lithuanian traditional music
Dalauna
Dance music - any rhythmic music intended for dancing
Dance-pop - comtemporary form of dance music with pop music structures
Dance-punk - fusion of punk rock, funk, disco, and electro music (also known as disco-punk, punk-funk, and indie-dance)
Dance-rock
Dancehall
Dangdut - popular Indonesian dance music with influences from Arabic and Indian music
Danger music
Dansband
Danza
Danzón
Dark ambient
Dark cabaret
Darkcore (hardcore techno)
Darkcore (drum & bass)
Dark pop
Darkstep
Darkwave
Dubstep
Drum 'n' Bass (DnB)
De codru
De dragoste
De jale
De pahar
Deathcore - a fusion between death metal and metalcore
Deathgrind - a fusion between death metal and grindcore
Death industrial
Death metal
Death/Doom - a fusion between death metal and doom metal
Death rock
Décima
Degung
Delta blues
Deep house
Deep soul
Dementia - relating to the style of music popularized by the Dr. Demento Show
Desi - Indian folk music
Detroit blues
Detroit techno
Dhamar - a type of highly-oranemented dhrupad
Dhimotiká - traditional Greek songs
Dhrupad - Hindustani vocal music performed by men singing in medieval Hindi
Dhun
Digital hardcore
Dirge
Dirty rap
Dirty South (also known as Southern rap)
Disco
Disco house
Disco polo - Polish nightclub dance music, played in '90s.
Diva house
Dixieland jazz (Chicago jazz)
Djambadon
Dodompa - Japanese tango
Doina
Dombola
Dondang sayang - slow folk music that mixes Malaysian forms with Portuguese, India, Chinese and Arabic music
Donegal fiddle tradition
Dongjing - Chinese Naxi form of folk music, related to silk and bamboo music from Chinca
Doo wop
Doom metal
Doomcore
Downtempo
Drag
Dream pop
Drone doom (Also known as Drone metal)
Drone music
Dronology
Drum and bass (DNB)
Dub
Dub house
Dubtronica
Dubstep
Dunun - Yoruba drum music
Dunedin Sound - early 1980s alternative rock sound based out of Dunedin, New Zealand and Flying Nun Records
Dutch jazz
E-Grind
Early music
East Coast blues
East Coast hip hop
Eastern Tradition of Sephardic music
Easy listening
Elafrolaïkó
Electric blues
Electric folk
Electro
Electro Backbeat
Electro hop
Electro-maximal
Electro-industrial
Electro punk
Electro-swing
Electroclash
Electrofunk
Electronic art music
Electronic body music (EBM, also known as industrial dance)
Electronic dance
Electronic luk thung - Dance-ready form of Thai pleng luk thung
Electronic music
Electronic rock
Electronica
Electropop
Elevator music (or Muzak)
Emo
Enka - Japanese pop music, using native forms
Equdorian Moggadawn Power Stomp
Eremwu eu
Ethereal wave
Ethereal pop
Euba
Eurobeat
Eurodance
Euro disco
Europop
Eurotrance
Exotica
Experimental music
Experimental noise
Experimental pop
Experimental rock
Extreme Metal
Ezengileer - type of Tuvan xoomii said to imitate the trotting of horses.
Fado - Portuguese roots-based popular music
Falak - Tajik folk music
fandango - Spanish dance music
Farruca - a genre of flamenco
Filk - modern, science fiction-oriented music
Film scores
Filmi - Indian film music
Filmi-ghazal - filmi based on Hindustani ghazal
Finger-style
Fjatpangarri - Aboriginal Australian music local to Yirrbala
Flamenco - dance music of Andalusia, Spain
Flower power
Foaie verde - classical form of Romanian doina
Fofa
Folk hop - a fusion of hip hop with Punjabi folk music. often mistaken as bhangra.
Folk metal
Folk music
Folk pop
Folk punk
Folk rock
Folktronica
Forró - extremely popular music of Northeastern Brazil
Franco-country
Freakbeat
Freak-folk
Free improvisation - freeform musical improvisation
Free jazz - improvised 1960s jazz
Free music
Free-Flow - a mixture of dub, hip-hop, electronic, drum and based and various other genres that doesn't have any musical protocols or guidelines. Usually develop through inspiration (from the heart). Established by TruEternal Inc
Freestyle
Freestyle house - a cross-culture mix of hip-hop/electro/house/pop
Freetekno
Frenchcore
Frevo - folk music from Recife, Brazil
Fricote - dance music from Salvador, Brazil
Fuji - Yoruba vocal and percussion music
Fulia - Afro-Venezuelan percussion music
Full On
Full Rhythm musicUnique world fusion of sound and culture mixing many different music styles
Funaná
Funeral doom - an extremely slow version of doom metal, most commonly made at the "pace of a funeral march"
Funk - a bass-heavy outgrowth of soul music
Funkcore
Funk metal - 1980s combination of funk, heavy metal and punk rock
Funk rock
Funky house - considered a subgenre of UK Garage
Furniture music - Erik Satie's invention of Background music
Fusion jazz - mixture of rock and jazz
G-funk
Gaana - type of Tamil song from Tamil Nadu, India
Gabber (also spelled as Gabba)
Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions
Gaikyoku
Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
Galant
Gamad - Malay-style
Gambang kromong - popular, highly-evolved form of kroncong, originally adapted for the theater
Gamelan - diverse Indonesian classical music, making use of a vast array of melodic percussion
Gamelan angklung - Balinese gamelan played for cremations and festivals
Gamelan bebonangan - Balinese cymbal-based processional gamelan
Gamelan degung - a form of popular Sundanese gamelan
Gamelan bang - Balinese sacred gamelan played for cremations
Gamelan buh - Balinese form of gamelan
Gamelan gede - ceremonial gamelan from the temple of Bator
Gamelan kebyar - an energetic form of large Balinese gamelan
Gamelan salendro - gamelan dance music from Sunda, known as lower-class music
Gamelan selunding - possibly the oldest style of gamelan, played only in the village of Tenganan in Bali
Gamelan semar pegulingan - sensual form of gamelan from Bali
Gamewave
Gammeldans
Gandrung - Osing music performed at weddings.
Gangsta rap - American form of hip hop music which focuses on underground lifestyles and illegal activities.
Gar - Tibetan classical music from gabi gishnola
Garage rock
Garrotin
Gavotte
Gelugpa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting, very austere and restrained
Gender wayang - Indonesian gamelan that accompanies shadow plays and other puppet plays
Gending - a distinct gamelan music from southern Sumatra
German Folk Music
Gharbi
Gharnati
Ghazal - vocal form originally Persian but since spread to Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and India
Ghazal-song - a modernized version of ghazal influenced by filmi
Ghetto house - form of Miami bass influenced by house music which arose in Chicago
Ghettotech - form of Miami bass which developed in 1990s Detroit
Girl group - Girls singing rock songs
Glam metal
Glam punk
Glam rock
Glitch
Gnawa
Go-go
Goa (also known as Goa trance)
Gong-chime music
Goombay - Bahamanian percussion music
Goregrind
Goshu ondo - a form of popularized Okinawan folk music
Gospel music
Gothic metal
Gothic rock
Granadinas
Grebo
Gregorian chant (plainchant)
Grime - emerged from East London, dark electronic beats with rapping, related to UK Garage and 2 step
Grindcore
Groove metal
Group Sounds - Japanese pop music from the 1960s, which included Appalachian folk music and psychedelic rock
Grunge
Grupera - a mixture of Mexican ranchera, norteño and cumbia
Guaguanbo
Guajira
Guasca - from Colombia
Guitarra Baiana - from Pernambuco, Brazil, a style of playing frevo using electric guitars
Guitarradas
Gumbe
Gunchei
Gunka - military marches with Japanese influences, created during the Meiji Restoration
Guoyue - invented conservatoire style of national Chinese music
Gwo ka - Guadeloupan percussion music
Gwo ka moderne - modernized gwo ka
Gypsy jazz
Gypsybilly see Gypsy Jazz (North America)
Gypsy punk
Gyu ke - form of Tibetan Tantric chanting
Habanera - Africanized danzón
Haiducesti
Hajnali - Hungarian-Transylvanian wedding songs
Hakka
Hambo
Hands Up
Hapa haole - a mixture of traditional Hawaiian music and English lyrics
Happy hardcore
Haqibah
Hardcore hip hop
Hardcore metal
Hardcore punk
Hardcore techno
Hard bop (hard bebop)
Hard house
Hard rock
Hardstyle
Hard trance
Harepa - harp-based music of Pedi people of South Africa
Harmonica blues
Hasaposérviko
Hát chèo - an ancient form of Vietnamese stage opera
Hát cãi luong - Vietnamese popular opera
Hát chau van - a popular spiritual folk music of Vietnam
Hát tuồng (Hát bôi) - Vietnamese operatic music
Heartland rock
Heavy metal
Hesher
Hi-NRG
Highlands
Highlife
Highlife fusion
Hillybilly music
Hiplife
Hip hop
Hip house
Hindustani classical music
Hiragasy
Hiva usu - unaccompanied vocal Christian music of Tonga
Honky tonk
Honkyoku
Hora lunga
Hornpipes
Horrorcore rap
Horror punk
House music
Hua'er
Huasteco - folk music from Huasteco, Mexico
Huaynos - Andean dance music now most widespread in Peru
Hula
Humppa
Hunguhungu
Hyangak - Korean court music
Hymn
Hyphy
Ibiza music
Igbo music
Ijexá
Ilahije
Illbient
Impressionist music
Improvisational
Incidental music
Indietronica
Indie music
Indie pop
Indie rock
Indo jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Indian music
Indo rock
Indoyíftika
Industrial dance (or EBM, electronic body music)
Industrial hip-hop
Industrial music
Industrial musical (also known as corporate musical)
Industrial metal
Industrial rock (or coldwave)
Instrumental rock
Intelligent dance music (IDM, also known as intelligent techno, listening techno or art techno)
International Latin - pop ballads from various Latin countries, especially Colombia
Inuit music - music of the Inuit
Irish folk
Irish Rebel Music
Iscathamiya
Isikhwela jo
Island - mix of reggae, ska, latin; music sounding from the island
Isolationist
Italo dance
Italo Disco - Italian nightclub music
Italo house
Itsmeños - folk music of the Zapotec peoples of Mexico
Izvorna bosanska muzika - modernized folk music from Drina, Bosnia
J-Pop - Japanese pop music
J-Rock - Japanese rock music
Jaipongan - unpredictably rhythmic dance music from Sunda, Indonesia
Jaliscienses - Folk music of Jalisco, Mexico, and the origin of mariachi
Jam band
Jam rock
Jamana kura
Jamrieng samai
Jangle pop
Jarana
Jariang - Cambodian folk narratives
Jarochos - folk music from Veracruz, Mexico
Jawaiian - Hawaiian reggae
Jazz
Jazz blues
Jazz-funk
Jazz fusion
Jazz Metal
Jazz rap
Jegog - Giant Bamboo ensemble of Bali, Indonesia
Jenkka
Jesus music
Jesuscore
Jibaro
Jig
Jig punk
Jing ping
Jingle - form of music used in television commercials
Jit
Jitterbug
Jive
Joged - a generic term for various types of dance music all over Indonesia
Joged bumbung - a popular form of joged ensemble
Joik
Joropo
Jota
J'Ouvert
Jug band
Juke joint blues
Juju
Jump blues
Jumpstyle
Jungle
Junkanoo
Juré
JtekK-pop - Korean pop music
Käng
Kaba - Southern Albanian instrumental music
Kabuki - lively and popular form of Japanese theater and music
Kadans
Kagok - Korean aristocratic vocal music accompanied by strings, wind and percussion instruments
Kagyupa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
Kaiso
Kalamatianó
Kalattuut - Inuit polka
Kalinda (kalenda, ti kannot)
Kamba pop
Kan ha diskan
Kansas City blues
Kantádhes
Kantrum
Karaoke
Kargyraa
Karma
Kaseko - Surinamese folk music
Kachāshī - lively, celebratory Okinawan folk music
Katajjaq or Inuit throat singing - competititive duet style
Kawachi ondo - a form of modernized Okinawan folk music
Kayōkyoku - traditionally-structured Japanese pop music
Ke-kwe
Kebyar - see gamelan gong kebyar above
Kecak - Balinese "monkeychant"
Kecapi suling - instrumental, improvisation-based music from Java
Kélé
Kertok - Malaysian xylophone music played in small ensembles
Khaleeji - popular folk-based music of the Persian Gulf countries
Khap
Khplam wai - a type of mor lam with a slow tempo which originated in Luang Prabang, Laos
Khelimaski djili - Hungarian Gypsy dance songs
Khene
Khrung sai - type of Thai classical music
Khyal - Hindustani vocal music that is informal, partially improvised and very popular
Khoomei
Khorovodi - Russian dance music
Kĩkũyũ pop
Kilapanda
Kinko
Kirtan
Kiwi rock
Kizomba
Klape - Dalmatian male choir music
Klasik
Kléftiko
Klezmer
Kliningan
Kochare - Armenian folk dance
Kolomyjka
Komagaku
Konpa
Koumpaneia - Greek Gypsy music
Kpanlogo
Krakowiak
Krautrock
Kriti (krithi) - a Hindu hymn
Kroncong - popular Indonesian music with strong Portuguese influence
Krzesany
Kulintang - Traditional gong-chime music of the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor
Kulning - Swedish folk songs
Kumina - music (and religion) of the Bongo Nation of Jamaica
Kun-borrk
Kundere
Kundiman - traditional Filipino songs adapted to Western song structure
Kussundé
Kutumba wake
Kvæði
Kveding - traditional Norwegian songs
Kwaito
Kwassa kwassa
Kwela
La la - Louisianan Creole music
Laba laba
Laïkó
Lai
Lam
Lam saravane - Laotian ensemble music from a town of the same name in southern Laos
Lam sing
Lambada - Bolivian and Brazilian dance music which arose from sayas and became internationally popular in the 1980s
Lancer
Langgam jawa - type of kroncong mixed with gamelan, popular around Solo, Indonesia
Latin American music
Laremuna wadauman
Latin jazz - jazz mixed with forms of Latin music like bossa nova or salsa
Lavlu
Lavway
Le leagan
Legényes - Hungarian-Transylvanian men's dance
Letkajenkka
Lhamo - form of Tibetan opera
Lieder
Likanos
Light Music - 20th Century light orchestral music (mainly British)
Light Rock
Liquindi
Llanera - Venezuelan music
Llanto - a flamenco-influenced genre of Panamanian folk music
Lo-fi music
Loki djili - traditional Hungarian Gypsy songs
Long-song - traditional Mongolian slow songs
Louisiana blues
Lounge music
Lovers rock
Lowercase
Lu - unaccompanied Tibetan folk music
Lubbock Sound
Lucknavi thumri - a type of thumri from Lucknow
Luhya omutibo
Luk grung - Popular Thai music from the early 20th century
Lullaby
Lundu
Lundum
Lelio
Madchester
Madrigal
Mafioso rap
Maglaal (tuuli)
Magnificat
Mahori - type of Thai classical music
Makossa
Makossa-soukous
Malagueñas
Malawian jazz
Malhun
Maloya - traditional music from Réunion
Maluf - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which developed in Constantine, Algeria
maluka
Mambo
Manaschi - Kyrgyz folk music made by travelling musicians also called manaschi
Mandarin pop - early Taiwanese pop sung in Mandarin and popular with young listeners
Manding swing
Mangue Bit - African style beat music style from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Mangulina
Manikay
Manila sound - Early 1970s development in Pinoy rock which mixed Tagalog and English lyrics
Manouche
Manzuma
Mapouka
Mapouka-serré
Marabi
Maracatu - African and Portuguese music popular around Recife, Brazil
Marga - Indian classical music
Mariachi - pop form of Son Jaliscience
Marimba
Marrabenta
Martial industrial
Maskanda - popularized Zulu-traditional music
Mass
Martinetes
Matamuerte
Mathcore
Math rock
Maxixe
Mazurka - Martinican Music
Mbalax
Mbaqanga (township jive)
Mbira (Chimurenga)
Mbube
Mbumba
Medh
Meditation
Medieval folk rock
Medieval metal
Medieval music
Mejorana
Melhoun
Melhûn
Melodic black metal
Melodic death metal
Melodic hardcore
Melodic metalcore
Melodic music
Melodic trance
Memphis blues
Memphis rap
Memphis soul
Mento
Merengue
Merengue típico moderno
Merengue-bomba - Puerto Rican fusion of bomba and merengue
Méringue
Meringue
Merseybeat
Metalcore
Metallic hardcore
Mexican Rock
Mexican son - a broad group of Mexican folk music
Meykhana
Mezwed
Miami bass (booty bass) (Bass music)
Mini compas
Mini-jazz
Minuet
Milongas
Min'yo - Japanese folk music
Mineras
Mini-jazz - Caribbean jazz
Minimalist music
Minimalist trance
Minimal techno
Minstrel show
Minneapolis sound
Mirolóyia
Modinha
Modern classical music
Modern Laika
Modern Rock
Modinha
Mohabelo - neo-traditional music from South Africa and Lesotho
Mor lam - Laotian and Thai ensemble music for vocals with accompaniment
Mor lam sing - popular form of Laotian traditional music developed by Laotians in Thailand
Motown
Montuno
Morna
Mozambique
MPB (música popular brasileira) - catch-all term for multiple varieties of Brazilian pop music
Mugam - classical music of Azerbaijan, featuring sung poetry and instrumental passages
Murga - Uruguayan street carnival dance with heavy percussion, also popular in Argentina.
Musette
Mushroom Jazz
Music drama
Music Hall
Música campesina - Cuban rural music
Música criolla - a coastal Peruvian music from the early 20th century, consisting of a variety of Western fusions
Música de la interior - indigenous folk music from Colombia
Música llanera - harp-based form of folk music from Los Llanos, Colombia
Música nordestina - Northeast Brazilian popular music, centered around Recife
Música tropical - a form of Colombian salsa music
Musiqi-e assil - Persian classical music
Musique concrète (also known as electroacoustic music)
Mutuashi
Muwashshah
Muzak (or elevator music)
Nafratala-Mexican s.x music
Na trapeza - Greek-Turkish slow songs
Nagauta - Japanese style of shamisen-playing
Naghmehs
Nakasi - Taiwanese musical form
Nangma - Tibetan dance music
Nanguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
Narcocorrido - Spanish for "Drug ballad", this Mexican music's theme was equivalent to gangster rap
Nardcore - Nardcore is a hardcore punk movement that came out of Southern California in the early 1980s
Narodna muzika - Serbian folk music
Nasheed - a capella music closely related with Islamic revival in the 20th century
Nashville Sound - pop-country music based out of Nashville, Tennessee
National Socialist Black Metal - NSBM Nazi black metal
Native American gospel - gospel music performed by Native Americans
Naturalismo - a term for the 2000s folk movement also referred to as New Weird America or Freak Folk
Nederpop - popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language
Neoclassical (Dark Wave)
Neoclassical (New Age)
Neoclassical music
Neo-classical metal
Néo kýma
Neofolk - a form of folk music that emerged from European ideals and post-industrial music
Neo-Medieval
Neo-prog
Neo-Psychedelia
Neo Soul (Nu Soul) - late 1990s and early 2000s American fusion of contemporary R&B, 1970s style soul music, hip hop music, jazz, and classical music
Nerdcore
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Welle - a kind of German New Wave music
Neue Volksmusik
New Age music - numerous varieties of music associated with New Age spirituality and culture, especially including atmospheric and natural sounds
New Beat - a downtempo music style from Belgium, contemporary to Chicago House and Detroit Techno.
New Instrumental
New Jack Swing (New Jack R&B, Swingbeat) - late 1980s and early 1990s American fusion of hip hop music, R&B, doo wop and soul music
New Orleans blues - piano and horn-heavy blues from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans contemporary brass band
New Orleans jazz
New Pop
New prog
New Rave
New Romantic - popular British New Wave from the early 1980s
New rumba
New school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded after about 1989
New Taiwanese Song - modern Taiwanese pop music which combines ballads, rock and roll and hip hop
New Wave bhangra (Fusion bhangra)
New Wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) - mid- to late 1970s heavy metal coming out of the United Kingdom
New Wave - melodious pop outgrowth of arty punk rock, also used as description of an emerging sound in any genre (e.g. Alpine New Wave)
New Wave of New Wave
New Weird America - term to defining emerging folk/psychedelia/drone/noize influenced by pre-war country-folk-blues & 1960s counter cultural underground music.
New York blues - jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century
New York House (also known as US Garage)
NuWave - a genre created by a popular DJ called DJ NuWave
Newgrass - progressive bluegrass
Nganja
Nhąc dân tôc cai biên - modernized forms of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s
Nhac tài tů - Vietnamese chamber music which accompanies cai luong
Nha Nac
Niche - sub-genre of UK Garage and Bassline House, name derived from the club in Sheffield, that first started putting on regular bassline nights
Nintendocore
Nisiótika - folk songs of the Greek islands
No Wave - avant-garde late 1970s outgrowth of New Wave and punk rock
Noh - highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style
Noise music
Noise pop - experimental 1990s outgrowth of punk
Noise rock - atonal punk rock from the 1980s
Nongak - Korean folk music played by 20-30 performers on different kinds of percussion instruments
Norae Undong - Korean rock music with socially aware lyrics
Nordic folk music
Nordic folk dance music
Nortec - electronic style from Tijuana, Mexico
Norteño (Tex-Mex) - Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
Northern harmony
Northern Soul - late 1960s variety of soul music from northern England
Northumbrian smallpipe music
Nota
Nova canção - popular 1950s and 60s fado in Portugal and folk-based singer-songwriters in Spain
Novokomponovana narodna muzika - modernized Serbian folk music
Nu breaks
Nu jazz - fusion of late 1990s jazz and electronic music
Nu metal - fusion of heavy metal music with genres such as hip hop, funk, grunge and electronic music
Nu-NRG - a harder and faster version of Hi-NRG
Nu soul (neo soul) - popular fusion of hip hop music and soul music
Nueva canción - Chilean pop-folk music which influenced by native Chilean and Bolivian forms
Nyingmapa chanting - form of highly rhythmic and elaborate Tibetan Buddhist chanting
Obscuro
Oi! - 1980s style of British punk rock
Old school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded before approximately 1989
Old time country
Old-time - archaic term for many different styles that were an outgrowth of Appalachian folk music and fed into country music
Oldies
Olonkho - Yakut epic songs
Oltului
Ompa - Music by the Kaizers Orchestra
Omutibo
Ondo
On ikki muqam - Uyghur classical music suite in 12 parts
Oom pah band
Opera - theatrical performances in which all or most dialogue is sung with musical accompaniment
Operatic Pop - subgenre of pop music that is performed in a classical operatic style (also referred to as "Popera")
Oratorical calypso
Oratorio - similar to opera but without scenery, costumes or acting
Orchestra - a large ensemble, especially one used to played European classical music
Orchestre
Organ trio - a style of jazz from the 1960s that blended blues and jazz (and later "soul jazz") and which was based around the sound of the Hammond organ
Organic ambient - often acoustic ambient music which uses instruments and styles borrowed from world music
Organic house
Organica - A genre music created by SLIPS INTO SPACE in 2007, it is written without predetermining the outcome of the overall sound.This music causes audible hallucinations.
Organum - Middle Ages polyphonic music
Oriental Foxtrot
Oriental metal - a subgenre of folk metal that incorporates elements of traditional Middle Eastern music.
Orovela - eastern Georgian work songs
Orgel (Organ Orgue) - keyboard instrument with/without pedals
Orquestas Tejanas
Ottava rima - Italian rhyming stanzas
Outlaw country - late 1960s and 70s form of country music with a hard-edged sound and rebellious lyrics
Outsider music - generic term for music performed by outsiders
Özgün
Ozwodna
P-Funk - 1970s fusion of funk, heavy metal and psychedelic rock, most closely associated with the bands Funkadelic and Parliament, who shared many members collectively known as P-Funk
Padams
Pagan metal
Pagan rock
Pagode - Brazilian style of music which originated in the Rio de Janeiro region
Paisley Underground - 1980s style of alternative rock that drew heavily on psychedelia
Palm wine - fusion of numerous West African, Latin American and European genres, popular throughout coastal West Africa in the 20th century
Palos
Panambih - tembang sunda that uses metered poetry
Panchai baja - Nepalese wedding music
Panchavadyam - Temple music from Kerala, India
Pansori - Korean folk music played by a singer and a drummer
Paranda - Garifuna form of music
Parisian soukous
Parranda - Afro-Venezuelan form of music
Parody - humorous renditions of various songs
Patriotic
Payada de contrapunto
Pambiche (Merengue estilo yanqui)
Paranda - Garifuna music of Belize
Parang - Trinidadian Christmas carols
Partido alto
El pasacalle
Paseo (music)
Pasillo
pcycobilly -hill billy and rock
Peace Punk
Pelimanni music - Finnish folk dance music
Pennywhistle jive
Peroveta anedia
Petenera
Peyote Song - a mixture of gospel and traditional Native American music
Philadelphia soul - soft 1970s soul that came out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phleng luk tung
punk techno- punk rock with techno beat and SFX
Piano blues
Piano rock
Piedmont blues
Pineal Polka
Pinoy rock - rock and roll sung in Tagalog from the Philippines
Pinpeat orchestra
Piphat - ancient form of Thai classical ensemble
Pirekaus - traditional love songs of the Purépecha of Mexico
Pisiq - Greenlandic folk song
Pixiefunk - fusion of funk,afrobeat,celtic balad,pop-rock,drum'n'bass and jungle. Usually performed live and free style. Origin:London
Piyyutim
Plachi - melancholic Russian folk songs
Plainchant (Gregorian chant)
Plena
Pleng phua cheewit - Thai protest rock
Pleng Thai sakorn - a Thai interpretation of Western classical music
Plunk-Folk - energetic double-bass driven folk, with the 'plunk' of the double bass sound.
Poco-poco - Indonesian modern music which fuses disco with eastern Indonesian dance music
Polihet
Polka
Polo
Polonaise
Pols - Danish fiddle and accordion dance music
Polska
Pong lang
Pop folk
Pop-makossa
Pop melayu - Malay pop music with dangdut overlay
Pop mop - Mongolian pop music
Pop music
Pop Progressive - Pop accompanied by guitar/bass riffs and speedy drum patterns
Pop punk
Pop rai
Pop rap
Pop rock
Pop sunda - Sundanese mixture of gamelan degung and pop music structures
Pornocore
Porro - Colombian big band music
Portuguese Shangaan - South African and Mozambiquan mixture of traditional Tsonga and Portuguese music
Positive punk
Post-disco
Post-grunge
Post-hardcore- Slite mixture of Hardcore and Punk rock
Post-industrial
Post-jam - Next Wave Jambands like the Slip, Lotus, STS9 and The Duo. Electronic and Indie Rock stylings.
Post-metal
Post-minimalism
Post-punk
Post-rock
Post-romanticism
Postgenre
Power electronics
Power metal
Power noise (or rhythmic noise)
Power pop
Powerviolence
Pow-wow - Native American dance music
Ppongtchak - Korean pop music developed during the Japanese occupation
Praise song
Program symphony
Progressive electronic music
Progressive folk music
Progressive house
Progressive metal
Progressive bluegrass
Progressive rock
Progressive trance
Protopunk
Psychedelic music
Psych folk or Psychedelic folk
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance)
Psychobilly
Psych-pop
Punjabi thumri - a type of thumri from Punjab
Punk blues - a US music genre that developed in the 1980s, which mixes elements of blues with the aggressive sound of punk.
Punk Cabaret - a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock.
Punk funk
Punk jazz
Punkra - see bhangra
Punk rock
Punta
Punta rock - 1970s Belizean music
Quan ho - Vietnamese vocal music which originated in the Red River Delta
Qasidah - Epic religious poetry accompanied by percussion and chanting
Qasidah modern - Qasidah updated for mainstream audiences
Qawwali - Sufi religious music updated for mainstream audiences, was originated in India
Quadrille
Queercore
Quiet Storm
Rada
Raga rock - Swiss soul, rock and Indian music fusion
Raga
Raggamuffin (Ragga)
Ragga-chutney
Ragga Jungle
Ragga-soca
Ragga-zouk - a fusion of reggae, dub music and zouk
Ragtime
Rainbow Rave
Rai - Algerian folk music now developed into a popular style
Rake-and-scrape - Bahamanian instrumental music
Ramkbach
Ramvong
Ranchera - pop mariachi from 1950s film soundtracks
Random dance
Rap
Rap opera
Rap rock
Rap metal
Rapcore
Rapso
Rara
Rare groove
Rasiya
Rateliai
Rave
Rebetiko
Rebita
Red Dirt (music)
reel
Reggae
Reggae dancehall (see Dancehall)
Reggae fusion
Reggae highlife
Reggaeton
Reinlender
Rekilaulu - Finnish rhyming sleigh songs
Religious
Rembetiko
Renaissance music
Requiem
Retro Acoustic Steel Guitar
Rhapsody
Rhyming spiritual - Bahamanian hymns
Rhythm and blues (R&B)
Rhythmic noise (or power noise)
Ricercar
Rímur - Icelandic heroic epic songs
Ring Bang - the Barbadian sound of soca
Riot grrrl
Rock
Rock opera
Rock and roll
Rock en español
Rock sureño - 70's Rock from Andalusia with Flamenco influences
Rockabilly
Rocknoir
Rocksteady
Rococo
Rodeo music
Rokon fada
Romantic period in music
Romeras
Rondeaux
Ronggeng - a folk music from Malacca, Malaysia
Roots reggae
Roots rock
Roots rock reggae
Ruem trosh - Cambodian traditional music
Rumba
African Rumba
Cuban Rumba (yambu, columbia, and guaguanco)
Flamenco Rumba also known as Gypsy rumba
Rumba gitana - French Gypsy music
Runddan
Runolaulu - Finnish folk songs
Runo-song - Estonian folk music
Sabar - drumming style found in Senegal
Sacred Harp
Sadcore
Saibara
Salegy
Salsa - fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in New York City
Salsa erotica - lyrically explicit form of salsa romantica
Salsa romantica - a soft, romantic form of salsa music
Saltarello
Salve
Samba - form of Brazilian popular music
Samba-canção - traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero
Samba-reggae - a genre of samba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm.
Samba-rock
Sambai
Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music
Sato kagura
Sawt - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
Saya - Bolivian music derived from African rhythms
Schlager
Schottisch
Schranz
Scottish Baroque music
Screamo
Scrumpy and Western - folk music from West Country of England
Sea shanty
Sean nós - Sean-nós singing style of Ireland
Second Viennese School
Sega music
Seggae
Seis
Semba
Sephardic music
Serialism
Set dance
Sevdalinka - Bosnian urban popular music
Sevillana
Shabab
Shabad
Shalako - Armenian folk dance
Shan'ge - Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
Shango
Shape note
Shibuya-kei
Shidaiqu - Hong Kong-based form of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in Mandarin
Shima uta - a form of Okinawan dance music
Shock rock
Shoegaze - British pop
Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting
Show tune
Sica
Siguiriyas
Silat - Malaysian mixture of music, dance and martial arts
Sinawi - Korean religious music meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of jazz
Singer-songwriter
Situational
Ska
Ska punk
Skacore (third wave of ska)
Skald
Skate punk
Skiffle
Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
Slängpolska
Slide
Slowcore
Sludge metal
Smooth jazz
Soca
Soft rock
Son-batá (batá rock)
Son montuno - Cuban folk music
Sonata
Songo - a mixture of changuí and son montuno
Songo-salsa - a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa
Soukous
Soul blues
Soul jazz
Soul music
Soundtrack
Southern Gospel
Southern Harmony
Southern hip hop
Southern metal
Southern rock
Southern soul
Space age pop
Space music
Space rock
Spectralism
Speedcore
Speed garage
Speed metal
Spirituals
Spouge - Barbadian folk music
Sprechgesang
Square dance
Sri lankan folk music
St. Louis blues
Steelband
Stoner metal
Stoner rock
Straight edge
Strathspeys
Stride
String - 1980s Thai pop music
String quartet
Sufi music
Suite
Sunshine pop
Suomirock
Super Eurobeat
Surf ballads
Surf instrumental
Surf music
Surf pop
Surf rock
Swamp blues
Swamp pop
Swamp rock
Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B)
Swing music
Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuva throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
Symphonic black metal
Symphonic metal
Symphonic poem
Symphonic rock
Symphony
Synthpop
Synthpunk
Taarab
Tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music
Taiwanese pop - early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners
Tala - a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music
Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
Tambu
Tamburitza
Tamil Christian keerthanai - Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil
Táncház - Hungarian dance music
Tango - Argentine popular music that spread internationally in the 1920s
Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
Tappa
Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
Tarantella
Taranto
Tech House
Tech Trance
Technical death metal
Technical metal
Techno
Techno metal
Techno rock
Technoid
Techstep
Techtonik
Teen pop
Tejano music or "Tex-Mex", sometimes confused with norteño
Tekno
Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
Texas blues
Thillana - form of vocal music from South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
Thrashcore
Thrash metal
Thumri - a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
Tibetan pop - pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
Tientos
Timbila - form of folk music in Mozambique
Tin Pan Alley
Tinga
Tinku - traditional music and dance from Potosi Bolivia
Toadas - traditional music and dance from Brazil
Toeshey - Tibetan dance music
Togaku
T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
Traditional pop music
Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
Trance
Travesty
Tribal house
Trikitixa - Basque accordion music
Trip-hop
Trip rock
Trompetenpunk
Tropicalia
Truck-driving country
Tumba
Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
Turntablism
Tuvan throat-singing
Twee pop
Twist (also a dance style, early 1960s)
Two tone (second wave of ska)
UK garage
UK pub rock
Unblack metal (also known as Christian black metal)
Underground music
Uplifting Trance
Urban Cowboy
Urban Folk
Urban jazz
Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music
Vaudeville
Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music
Verismo
Video game music - Melodic music as defined by its media.
Viking metal
Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs
Virelais
Visual Kei
Visual music
Vocal house
Vocal jazz
Vocal music
Volksmusik
Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
Waltz
Warabe uta
Wassoulou
Were music
Western blues
Western swing
Wizard rock
Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist
Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music
Work song
Wood Sounds of organic synthesis recorded on organic medium such as tape.
Worldbeat
World music
World fusion music
Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing
Xhosa music
Xian rock
Yang - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
Yé-yé
Yo-pop
Yodeling
Yukar
Zajal
Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
Zeuhl
Zeibekiko - Greek Dance 9/8 Rytmus
Ziglibithy
Zolo - characterized by hyper bitchy rhythms and cacophonous/ harmonious bleeps and bongs
Zouglou
Zouk - French Caribbean (Guadeloupean) dance music
Zouk chouv
Zouklove - Guadeloupean Music
Zulu music
Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music