Knowledge: styles

African ∞ Alternative Rock ∞ Big Band ∞ Blues ∞ Broadway ∞ By Decade Cajun and Zydeco ∞ Celtic ∞ Choral ∞ Christian ∞ Classical ∞ Country ∞ Dance ∞ Disco ∞ Early Music ∞ Easy Listening ∞ Electronic ∞ Electronica ∞ Experimental ∞ Folk ∞ Gamelan ∞ Gospel ∞ Heavy Metal ∞ Hip Hop ∞ House ∞ Jazz ∞ Klezmer ∞

Latin ∞ Lounge ∞ Marching ∞ Middle Eastern ∞ Military Bands and Music ∞ Native American ∞ Opera ∞ Polka ∞ Pop ∞ Progressive Rock ∞ Punk ∞ Rap ∞ Reggae ∞ Regional and Ethnic ∞ Religious ∞ Rhythm and Blues ∞ Rock ∞ Show Tunes ∞ Ska ∞ Swing ∞ Techno ∞ Traditional Pop ∞ Vocal ∞ Worldbeat ∞ Zydeco ∞

See Also:

• arts → radio → formats → music
• shopping → entertainment → recordings → audio → music → specialty

Links

Wikipedia: Musical Genre 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre

Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region, chronology, technical requirements, marketing trends, or the ideas of critics. Extensively linked to sub-genres and examples of significant artists.

InfoUSA: Musical Genres 
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/genres.htm

Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music.

Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles 
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php

Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, modern rock, rock, and heavy metal.

Ectophiles Guide by Genre 
http://ectoguide.org/genre

Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art, beautiful and fierce, and traditional.

DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler 
http://datadragon.com/education/genres/

Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.

Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre 
http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/index.cgi?command=Display_Genre

About two dozen musical genres including blues, a capella, dance/techno, and Southern gospel, with as many as several hundred links to Christian music artists in each.

Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres 
http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html

Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country.

A Taxonomy of Musical Genres 
http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/pachet-riao2000.pdf

Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000.

Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art 
http://www.idiap.ch/~paiement/references/to_read/music/genre_classification/pachet-02c.pdf

Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available Online.

All Music Guide 
http://allmusic.com/

Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews.

Indiana University School of Music: Genres 
http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html

Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music.

Music Classification by Genre: System Performance 
http://cnx.org/content/m11690/latest/

Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples.

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