Musical genre
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A Musical genre represents a style or classification of music and can be useful in identifying similar musical artists or albums. Genres can also contain other genres, or be influenced by other genres. The genre of a Musical Artist or Musical Album...
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| Classic rock | Broadcast Genre | Classic metal |
Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock (AOR) format in the early-1980s. In the United States, this rock music format now features a large and nearly unlimited playlist...
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Broadcast Genre | Country |
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue note. It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression in African-American communities of the United States from spirituals, work songs, field holler, shouts and...
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| Psychobilly | |||||
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| Black metal |
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Heavy metal | Folk metal |
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure.
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| Thrash metal | National Socialist black metal | ||||
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| Country | Broadcast Genre | Old-time music | Country-rap |
Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
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| Celtic music | Jug band | ||||
| Blues | Alternative country | ||||
| Spiritual | Psychobilly | ||||
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| Christian alternative rock |
Christian alternative rock music (ACM) is a form of alternative rock music lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview. Unlike Contemporary Christian music, ACM generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content. The degree to which the faith...
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| Disco | Broadcast Genre | Soul music | West Coast hip hop |
Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music of which the origins are hard to place at a single defining point. In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs in February 1970 New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only...
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| Dance movie genre | New Wave | ||||
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| Drum and bass |
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Ambient music | Techstep |
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b;, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass, drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterised by fast tempo broken beat drums (generally...
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| Techno | Clownstep | ||||
| Samba | Neurofunk | ||||
| Darkcore | Downtempo | ||||
| Breakbeat | Raggacore | ||||
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| Death metal |
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Heavy metal | Avant garde metal |
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs fast tempos, heavily distorted guitars, deep growling vocals, morbid lyrics, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
Building off the...
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| Thrash metal | Dark metal | ||||
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| Electronic art music |
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20th century classical music | Electroacoustic music |
Electronic art music refers to those forms of electronic music that fall within the general category of art music. The term encompasses a range of experimental music forms, both historical and contemporary, created by means of electronic instrument...
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| Electronic music | Noise music | ||||
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| Funk |
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Broadcast Genre | Brown-eyed soul | West Coast hip hop |
Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B; into a rhythmic, dance new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony, and brings a strong...
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| Soul music | Funk metal | ||||
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| Flamenco |
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Sephardic music | New Flamenco |
Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre with strong, rhythmic undertones and is often accompanied with a similarly impassioned style of dance characterized by its powerful yet graceful execution, as well as its intricate hand and footwork. Flamenco...
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| Mozarabic chant | Tangos | ||||
| Flamenco | Alegrías | ||||
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| Grindcore |
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Heavy metal | Deathgrind |
Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is a gathering of extremes: it draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive popular music genres available—noise, death metal, early industrial music and the coarser varieties of punk rock (D-beat, crust and...
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| Thrash metal | Goregrind | ||||
| Thrashcore | Power violence | ||||
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| Heavy metal |
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Broadcast Genre | Psychedelic rock | Funk metal |
Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created...
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| Website Category | Blues-rock | Progressive metal | |||
| European Classical music | Black metal | ||||
| Hard rock | Neo-classical metal | ||||
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| House music |
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Broadcast Genre | Soul music | Booty House |
House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed in African-American and gay communities of Chicago (see Chicago house), influenced by early to mid-1970s dance music as spun by DJs in Chicago and spread to Detroit, New York, and...
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| Synthpop | Electronica | ||||
| Funk | Tribal house | ||||
| Disco | Neurofunk | ||||
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| Mambo | Son montuno | Salsa music |
Mambo is a Cuba musical form and dance style. The word mambo (which means conversation with the gods) is the name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo. The name is derived from the language of the African slaves who were imported into the Caribbean.
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| Son | Cha-cha-cha | ||||
| Big band | Boogaloo | ||||
| Swing | Pachanga | ||||
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| New Wave |
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Broadcast Genre | Glam rock | Synthpop |
New Wave is a rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the 1980s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s. New Wave incorporated various influences such as the rock 'n' roll styles of the pre...
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| Disco | Mod Revival | ||||
| Punk rock | New Romantic | ||||
| Ska | Electropop | ||||
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| Nu metal |
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Funk metal |
Nu metal (sometimes named new metal or nü metal) is a musical genre that emerged in the mid 1990s which fuses influences from grunge and alternative metal with funk music, hip hop and various heavy metal genres, such as Thrash metal, groove metal...
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| Punk rock |
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Film subject | Glam rock | Gothic rock |
Punk rock (often referred to simply as punk) is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known...
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| Film genre | Mod | Punkabilly | |||
| Broadcast Genre | Rockabilly | Paisley Underground | |||
| Rock music | Funk metal | ||||
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| Psychedelic rock |
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Folk rock | Goa trance |
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among garage and folk rock bands in Britain and the United States. Psychedelic rock is a...
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| British rock | Paisley Underground | ||||
| Jazz | Art rock | ||||
| Garage rock | Kosmische Musik | ||||
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| Pop music |
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TV Genre | Dance music | New Wave |
Pop music will have a noticeable rhythmic element, catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and traditional structure. However pop can also just be music charted by the number or sales, plays, etc., that the work receives.
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| Media genre | Rhythm and blues | Pop-rap | |||
| Broadcast Genre | Rock music | Traditional pop music | |||
| Russian pop | Power pop | ||||
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| Rock music |
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Broadcast Genre | Rockabilly | Punkabilly |
Rock music is a genre of popular music with a prominent vocal melody, accompanied by electric guitar, bass guitar, and drum. Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Other instruments...
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| Radio format | Glam rock | ||||
| Media genre | Psychobilly | ||||
| Literary Genre | Glam punk | ||||
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| Rapcore | Heavy metal | Nu metal |
Rap rock is a fusion genre of rock and hip-hop. It blends vocal and instrumental parts of hip-hop and various forms of rock, including punk and metal.
The genre is often referred to as rap metal or rapcore. These two terms could also be used as...
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