Genres (popular music)
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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, music hall songs and showtunes.
3. Ballroom music: tango, pasodoble, cha cha cha and others.
4. Religious music: gospel, Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns, Klezmer 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: Western traditional music, folk, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque, Chalga, Enka, Flamenco, indigenous music and Mor lam sing.
7. Genres which are not distinguishable from existing ones, and those that consist of a mixture of styles, such as dansband and ghettotech.

Applicable styles are classified in this list using Allmusic [1] genre categorisation.

Avant-garde

• Experimental music
  • Minimalist music
• Lo-fi
• Futurerock

Blues

• Boogie-woogie
• Country blues
• Delta blues
• Electric blues
• Jump blues

Country

• Alternative country
  • Americana
• Country pop
  • Nashville sound/Countrypolitan
  • Urban Cowboy
• Country rock
• Honky tonk
  • Bakersfield Sound
• Progressive country
  • Neotraditional country
  • Outlaw country
• Rockabilly
  • Rock and Roll
• Traditional country
  • Bluegrass
    • Progressive bluegrass
    • Traditional bluegrass
  • Close harmony
  • String band
• Western
  • Western swing

Easy listening

• Background music
• Beautiful music
• Elevator music
• Furniture music
• Lounge music
• Middle of the road

Electronic

• Ambient
  • Dark ambient
• Breakbeat
• Downbeat
• Dance
  • Big beat
  • Drum and bass
    • Darkcore
  • Electroclash
  • Eurodance
  • Gabba
  • Garage
  • Goa trance
    • Psychedelic trance
  • Happy hardcore
  • Hardcore techno
  • Hi-NRG
  • House
    • Ambient house
    • Italo house
    • Acid house
  • Spacesynth
  • Trance
    • Acid
    • Classic
    • Euro
    • Hard
    • Hardstyle
    • Progressive trance
    • Tech
    • Uplifting
    • Vocal
  • Electro
  • Electronica
  • Rave
  • Techno
    • Acid breaks
  • Trip hop
• Glitch
• Industrial music
• Progressive electronic

Hip hop/Rap music

• Abstract hip hop
• Chicano Rap
• Crunk
• Dirty rap and Pornocore
• East coast hip hop
• Gangsta rap
  • G-funk
• Grime
• Miami bass
• Political hip hop
• Turntablism
• West coast hip hop
• World hip hop
  • African hip hop
  • Asian hip hop
  • Australian hip hop
  • European hip hop
    • British hip hop
  • Middle Eastern hip hop
  • North America
    • Canadian hip hop
    • Mexican hip hop
  • New Zealand hip hop
  • South American hip hop

Jazz

• Acid jazz
• Asian American jazz
• Avant-garde jazz
• Bebop
• Big band
• Crossover jazz
• Dixieland
• Calypso jazz
• Chamber jazz
• Cool jazz
• Free jazz
• Gypsy jazz
• Hard bop
• Jazz blues
• Jazz-funk
• Jazz fusion
• Jazz rap
• Latin jazz
• Mainstream jazz
• Mini-jazz
• Modal jazz
• M-Base
• Nu jazz
• Smooth jazz
• Soul jazz
• Swing
• Trad jazz
• West Coast jazz

Latin

• Salsa
• Merengue

Modern folk

• Folk rock
• Folktronica
• Indie folk
• Neofolk
• Progressive folk
• Pop folk

New Age

Reggae

• Dancehall
• Dub
• Reggaeton
• Ragga
• Ska

Rhythm and blues

• Contemporary R&B
• Doo wop
• Funk
• New jack swing
• Soul
  • Northern Soul
  • Neo Soul
• Urban contemporary

Rock

• Alternative rock
  • Emo
  • Grunge
  • Nu metal
  • Indie rock
    • C86
  • Shoegazing
  • Madchester
• Blues-rock
• C-Rock
• Dark cabaret
• Desert rock
• Garage Rock
• Glam rock
• Gothic rock
• Hard rock
• Heavy metal
  • Extreme metal
    • Black metal
    • Death metal
    • Doom metal
    • Thrash metal
  • Power metal
  • Glam metal
  • Groove metal
  • Progressive metal
  • Speed metal
  • Symphonic metal
• Industrial rock
• J-Rock
• New Wave
• Progressive rock
• Psychedelic rock
  • Acid rock
• Punk rock
  • Anarcho punk
    • Crust punk
  • Deathrock
  • Hardcore punk
    • Grindcore
    • Metalcore
    • Post-hardcore
  • Post-punk
  • Psychobilly
• Rap Rock
• Rock and roll
  • Rockabilly
• Southern rock
• Surf rock

Pop

• • Adult contemporary music
  • Adult oriented pop music
  • Adult standards
  • Afropop
  • Arab pop
  • Austropop
  • Baroque pop
  • Britpop
  • Bastard pop
  • Brazilian pop
  • Bubblegum pop
  • Chinese pop
  • Contemporary Christian
  • Country pop
  • Dance-pop
  • Disco
  • Disco polo
  • Dream pop
  • Electropop/Technopop
  • Eurobeat
  • Euro disco
  • Europop
  • French pop
  • Greek Laïkó pop
  • Hindi pop
  • Hong Kong and Cantonese pop
  • Hong Kong English pop
  • Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
  • House-pop
  • Indie pop
  • Indonesian pop
  • Italo dance
  • Italo disco
  • Jangle pop
  • Japanese pop
  • Korean pop
  • Latin pop
  • Levenslied
  • Louisiana swamp pop
  • Mandarin pop
  • Manufactured pop
  • Mexican pop
  • Nederpop
  • New romantic
  • Noise pop
  • Operatic pop
  • Persian pop
  • Pop punk
  • Pop rap
  • Pop rock
  • Power pop
  • Psychedelic pop
  • Russian pop
  • Schlager
  • Sophisti-pop
  • Space age pop
  • Sunshine pop
  • Surf pop
  • Synthpop
  • Taiwanese pop
  • Teen pop
  • Thai pop
  • Turkish pop
  • Twee pop
  • US pop
  • Vispop
  • Yugoslav pop

World

• Worldbeat

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.