By Decade 664
African 88
Alternative Rock 460
Big Band 158
Blues 998
Broadway 1,316
Cajun and Zydeco 71
Celtic 348
Choral 1,065
Christian 2,612
Classical 2,071
Comedy 96
Country 1,660
Dance 703
Disco 75
Early Music 300
Easy Listening 21
Electronic 29
Electronica 176
Experimental 352
Folk 660
Gamelan 35
Gospel 13
Heavy Metal 1,653
Hip Hop 506
House 92
Humor and Parody 28
Jazz 1,487
Klezmer 43
Latin 263
Lounge 25
Marching 1,060
Middle Eastern 105
Military Bands and Music 25
Native American 56
Opera 331
Parody and Humor 28
Polka 69
Pop 136
Progressive Rock 494
Punk 1,205
Rap 506
Reggae 186
Religious 3
Rhythm and Blues 156
Rock 4,966
Show Tunes 1,316
Ska 93
Swing 200
Techno 109
Traditional Pop 13
Vocal 49
Worldbeat 34
Zydeco 25
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Specialty - Music, Audio, Recordings, Entertainment, Shopping 886
Regional and Ethnic 1,661
 All Music GuideAll Music Guide
 Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews.
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America.gov: American Popular MusicAmerica.gov: American Popular Music
 Online publication contains stories that illustrate how Americans, borrowing from diverse musical traditions, have contributed to humanity’s universal language.
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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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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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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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