By Decade 715
African 89
Alternative Rock 506
Big Band 168
Blues 1,094
Broadway 1,376
Cajun and Zydeco 72
Celtic 360
Choral 1,110
Christian 2,849
Classical 2,049
Country 1,910
Dance 733
Disco 94
Early Music 332
Easy Listening 21
Electronic 33
Electronica 191
Experimental 379
Folk 733
Gamelan 26
Gospel 15
Heavy Metal 1,755
Hip Hop 545
House 97
Jazz 1,573
Klezmer 46
Latin 290
Lounge 27
Marching 1,147
Middle Eastern 112
Military Bands and Music 29
Native American 62
Opera 333
Polka 69
Pop 148
Progressive Rock 537
Punk 1,320
Rap 545
Reggae 190
Religious 3
Rhythm and Blues 176
Rock 5,388
Show Tunes 1,376
Ska 100
Swing 221
Techno 121
Traditional Pop 15
Vocal 52
Worldbeat 36
Zydeco 25
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Specialty - Music, Audio, Recordings, Entertainment, Shopping 967
Regional and Ethnic 1,723
 All Music GuideAll Music Guide
 Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews.
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Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical StylesAudiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles
 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.
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Christian Music Place: Artists by GenreChristian Music Place: Artists by 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.
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DataDragon: Music Genre SamplerDataDragon: Music Genre Sampler
 Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.
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Ectophiles Guide by GenreEctophiles Guide by 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.
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Indiana University School of Music: GenresIndiana University School of Music: Genres
 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.
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Music Classification by Genre: System PerformanceMusic Classification by Genre: System Performance
 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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Music Web Hunter: Styles & GenresMusic Web Hunter: Styles & Genres
 Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country.
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Representing Musical Genre: A State of the ArtRepresenting Musical Genre: A State of the Art
 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. [PDF]
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A Taxonomy of Musical GenresA Taxonomy of Musical Genres
 Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000. [PDF]
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Wikipedia: Musical GenreWikipedia: 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.
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