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Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children.

Schlager is a style of European popular music generally defined by catchy instrumental accompaniments to vocal pieces of pop music with simple, easygoing, and often sentimental lyrics.

Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early-mid 1980s.

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene, particularly in African-American, Italian-American, Latino and queer communities.

Neue Deutsche Welle is a genre of West German rock music originally derived from post-punk and new wave with electronic influences.

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Pop music, or simply pop, is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.

Sunshine pop is a loosely defined form of pop music that was first associated with early soft rock producers and songwriters based in Los Angeles, California, during the mid- to late 1960s.

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music.

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles that emerged in the mid- to late 1970s as a lighter and more melodic "broadening of punk culture".

Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in 24 originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.

Happy hardcore, also known as 4-beat, is a subgenre of hardcore dance music.

A chanson is generally any lyric-driven French song.

Glam rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was primarily defined by the hairstyles, makeup, and flamboyant clothing of its musicians, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe.

Yacht rock is a broad music style and aesthetic commonly associated with soft rock, one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

A country is an area of land, colloquially used as a synonym for sovereign state or other political entities, but also used to refer to the hinterland surrounding urban areas, as well as to describe the culture of people living in these places.

K-pop is a form of popular music originating in South Korea.

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and United Kingdom.

Soft rock is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in the United States and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions.

Progressive rock is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s.

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s.

Doo-wop is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

Latin pop, also referred to as Spanish-language pop, is a subgenre of popular music defined primarily as pop music performed in Spanish.

Rapping is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular".

Reggaeton is a style of popular and electronic music that originated in Panama during the late 1980s.

A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.

Hardstyle is an electronic dance genre that emerged in the late 1990s, with origins in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

Europop is a style of pop music that originated in Europe during the mid-to-late 1960s and developed to today's form throughout the late 1970s.

Moombahton is an electronic dance music genre, derived from house music and reggaeton, that was created by American DJ and producer Dave Nada in Washington, D.C., in 2009.

Tropical house, also known as trop house, is a subgenre of house music, and a derivation of tropical music, with elements of dancehall and Balearic house.

Art pop is a loosely defined style of pop music that emerged in the mid-1960s, influenced by art theories as well as ideas from other art mediums, such as fashion, fine art, cinema, contemporary art and avant-garde literature.

Funk rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock.

Gabber is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of hardcore, as well as the surrounding subculture.

Old-school hip-hop, stylized as old skool is the earliest commercially recorded hip-hop music and the original style of the genre.

Baroque pop is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music.

Indorock is a musical genre that originated in the 1950s in the Netherlands, formerly the colonial exploiter of the Dutch East Indies.

Folk-pop is a broad musical fusion genre that includes contemporary folk songs with pop arrangements, and pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements.

German hip-hop refers to hip hop music in the German language.

In religion and philosophy, the soul is the immaterial aspect or essence of a living being.

Italo dance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the mid-1990s in Italy as a regional development of eurodance; its sound subsequently evolved into a distinct yet closely related form.

Glam metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, upbeat rock anthems, and slow power ballads.

Nu metal is a subgenre of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, funk, industrial, and grunge.

Vocal jazz or jazz singing is a genre within jazz music where the voice is used as an instrument.

Adult standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.

Alternative rock is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

Britpop was a British music and cultural movement that emerged in the 1990s.

Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.

Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person who has induced the trance.

Afrobeats, not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing, is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s.

Punk rock is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the mid-1970s.

French pop music is pop music sung in the French language.

Kizomba is a social dance and music genre that originated in Angola during late 1970s to early 1980s.

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that aims to separate the genre from popular entertainment, with the term typically being applied as the middle ground between mainstream and experimental rock.

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

Hip-hop is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s alongside an associated subculture in the African-American and Caribbean immigrants communities of New York City.

Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.

Synth-pop is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

Independent music is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedom, low budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation.

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

Grunge is an alternative rock genre and subculture that emerged during the mid-1980s in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and Olympia, and other nearby cities.

Swedish popular music, or shortened as Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times.

French hip hop or French rap, is the hip hop music style developed in French-speaking countries.

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound.

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary sound of R&B.

Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno.

Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition.

Proto-punk is music that foreshadowed the punk rock genre, particularly rock music artists during the 1960s and early-to mid 1970s.

Psychedelic rock is a subgenre of rock music that originally emerged during the mid-1960s, inspired by psychedelic culture and primarily centered around the influence of psychoactive and hallucinogenic drugs.

Italo disco is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s.

Dance-pop is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

French house is a style of house music devised by French musicians in the 1990s.

UK hard house or simply hard house is a style of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1990s and is synonymous with its association to the Trade club and the associated DJs there that created the style.

Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966.

East Coast hip-hop is a regional subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s.

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Post-grunge is an offshoot of grunge that has a less abrasive or intense tone than traditional grunge.

Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana.

Surf music is a genre of rock and roll associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.

Emo is a genre of rock music that combines musical characteristics of hardcore punk with emotional, often confessional lyrics.

Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals.

Bachata is a genre of music that evolved in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century.

Hyperpop is an electronic music movement and loosely defined microgenre that originated in the early 2010s in the United Kingdom.

Post-punk is a loosely defined music genre and period that emerged in late 1977 in the wake of punk rock.

French house is a style of house music devised by French musicians in the 1990s.

Opera is a form of Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

Phonk is a subgenre of hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap.

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

Tech house is a house music subgenre that prominently incorporates stylistic features from techno.

Hi-NRG is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Pop-punk is a rock music genre that combines elements of punk rock and pop.

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country.

Trip-hop is a music genre defined as a psychedelic fusion of hip-hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound.

Acid jazz is a music genre that combines elements of funk, soul, and hip-hop.

Grime is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in London in the early 2000s.

Jangle pop is a subgenre of pop rock and indie rock that emphasizes jangly guitars and 1960s-style pop melodies.

Dominican Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in present-day Dominican Republic which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States with Latino communities.

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s.

Southern hip-hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip-hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip-hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida—often titled "The Big 5," five states which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music.

Reggae rock also known as “Cali reggae” is a subgenre of reggae fusion and rock music that primarily uses the genres reggae, rock, and ska.

The twelve-bar blues is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music.

Krautrock is a broad genre of experimental rock and music scene that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audiences.

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

Philadelphia soul, sometimes called Philly soul, the Philadelphia sound, Phillysound, or The Sound of Philadelphia (TSOP), is a genre of late 1960s–1970s soul music characterized by funk influences and lush string and horn arrangements.

Anime is animation originating from Japan.

A big band is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of 10 or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to India's Hindi-language film industry, based in Mumbai.

Celtic punk is punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music.

Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock music that was mainly successful in the mid-1960s, most commonly in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals.

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

Pop rap is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip-hop with pop's preference for melodic vocals, catchy hooks, and positive lyrics on pop-like productions and structure, as well as samples of various popular songs.

Fado is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins.

Flamenco is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia.

A house is a single-unit residential building.

Moroccan pop or abbreviated as Morocco-pop music is a genre of the new Moroccan music generation along the hip hop, rap music in Morocco.

Power pop is a subgenre of rock music and a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds.

Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity or God.

Zouk is a musical movement and dance pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s.

Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from Afro-Trinidadians during the early- to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century.

A choir, also known as a chorale or chorus, is a musical ensemble of singers.

Ukendt Kunstner is a Danish hip hop group from Copenhagen, founded in 2012 by rapper Hans Philip and producer Jens Ole Wowk McCoy.

Outlaw country is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.

Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that deals with the everyday lives and aspirations of Africans and those in the African Diaspora, including the spiritual side of Rastafari, black liberation, revolution and the honouring of God, called Jah by Rastafarians.

Shatta, also spelled Shutta, was a Palestinian village in Beth Shaan Valley, north-west of the city of Bisan.

Bhajan is an Indian term for any devotional song with a religious theme or spiritual ideas, specifically among Dharmic religions, in any language.

Brooklyn drill is a regional subgenre of drill music, which is a subgenre of hip-hop music.

Chicago house refers to house music produced during the mid to late 1980s within Chicago.

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.

Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

Neo soul is a genre of popular music.

New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.

Symphonic metal is a cross-genre style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres.

Americana artifacts are related to the history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States of America.

Lo-fi is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate stylistic choice.

Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock and blues music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.

Electro swing, or swing house, is an electronic dance music genre that combines the influence of vintage or modern swing and jazz mixed with house and hip hop.

Neo-psychedelia is a genre of psychedelic music that draws inspiration from the music production approaches and songwriting of 1960s psychedelia, either exploring emulations of the sounds of the era or applying its ethos to new styles of music.

Raï, sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian popular music whose origins date back to the 1920s.

Rap rock is a music genre that developed from the early to mid-1980s, when hip hop DJs incorporated rock records into their routines and rappers began incorporating original and sampled rock instrumentation into hip hop music.

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

Exotica is a musical genre that was popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s with Americans who came of age during World War II.

Future house is a house music genre that emerged in the 2010s in the United Kingdom, described as a fusion of deep house, UK garage and incorporating other elements and techniques of other EDM genres.

Quiet storm is a radio format and genre of R&B, performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style.

Sertanejo music, is a term used to refer to a musical style of Brazil.

Speedcore is a form of electronic music that is characterized by a high tempo and aggressive themes.

Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Tejanos are descendants of mostly Native Americans, but also Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state.

Afro house is a sub-genre of house music mainly developed in South Africa.

Alternative metal is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal.

Easy listening is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s.

Frenchcore is a subgenre of hardcore techno.

G-funk, short for gangsta funk, is a sub-genre of gangsta rap that emerged from the West Coast scene in the early 1990s.

Lovers rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content.

Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs.

Smooth jazz is a commercially oriented style crossover jazz music.

Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock.

Techno is a genre of electronic music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm).

Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Gangsta or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of hip-hop that conveys the culture, values, and experiences of urban gangs and street hustlers, frequently discussing unpleasant realities of the world in general through an urban lens.

A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels.

Soca music, or the "soul of calypso", is a genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1970s.

The roots of traditional music in Turkey span across centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks migrated to Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences.

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Funk carioca, also known as baile funk, Brazilian funk, or simply funk, is a Brazilian hip hop-influenced music genre from Rio de Janeiro, taking influences from musical styles such as Miami bass and freestyle.

Christian hip-hop is a cross-genre of contemporary Christian music and hip-hop.

Coupé-décalé is a type of popular dance music originating in Côte d'Ivoire.

Downtempo is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music.

Jazz music has been popular in France since the 1920s.

Funky house is a subgenre of house music that uses disco and funk samples, a funk-inspired bass line or a strong soul influence, combined with drum breaks that draw inspiration from 1970s and 1980s funk records.

Gothic rock is a subgenre of rock music which grew out of British post-punk in the late 1970s.

Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context.

Russ music is a subgenre of electronic dance music and a music scene which originated from Norway during the mid-2000s.

Salsa music is a style of Latin American music, combining elements of Cuban and Puerto Rican influences.

West Coast hip-hop is a regional genre of hip-hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States.

Alternative dance is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music.

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe.

Corridos tumbados, also known as trap corridos, is a subgenre of regional Mexican music, specifically of a corrido, with musical elements of a narcocorrido and rap music.

Desi hip hop is a term for music and culture which combines hip-hop with Indian influences ; the term desi referring to the Indian diaspora.

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin of the Roman Catholic Church.

A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates.

Latin house is an electronic dance music genre that combines house and Latin American music, such as that of Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and African origin.

Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that was popular and heavily influenced musical genres such as the Blues, and was seen in the United States from the 1890s to 1910s.

Rap metal is a fusion genre that combines hip hop with heavy metal.

Retro soul, sometimes written as retro-soul, is a contemporary popular music genre that emulates the singing, arrangements and recording techniques of traditional American soul music from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Skate punk is a skater subculture and punk rock subgenre that developed in the 1980s.

Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, music, film, theatre, and television that is heavily influenced by Gothic elements and set in the American South.

Acid rock is a loosely defined type of rock music that evolved out of the mid-1960s garage punk movement and helped launch the psychedelic subculture.

Budots is an electronic dance music (EDM) genre that originated in Davao City, Philippines, and is considered as street style techno.

Canzone napoletana, sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the love song and serenade.

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Country rap is a fusion genre that mixes country music elements with hip-hop beats and rapping.

The dembow beat or dembow riddim is a musical rhythm best known for its use as the core percussion element in reggaeton music, having taken its name from the 1990 dancehall song "Dem Bow" by Shabba Ranks.

Electroclash is a genre of popular music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.

Emo rap is a subgenre of hip hop influenced by emo.

Ghazal is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry that often deals with topics of spiritual and romantic love.

Gospel originally meant the Christian message, but in the second century AD the term euangélion came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.

Hardcore is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s.

Jazz fusion is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.

Jersey club is a style of electronic club music that originated in Newark, New Jersey, in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Latin alternative, or "alterlatino", or "Patchanka", is a brand of Latin rock music produced by combining genres like alternative rock, lofi, chillout, metal, electronica, hip hop, new wave, pop rock, punk rock, reggae, and ska with traditional Ibero-American sounds, in Latin Europeans and Latin Americans countries.

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to late 15th centuries, comparable with the post-classical period of global history.

Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music and a subgenre of house music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 125–135 beats per minute.

Metalcore is a broadly defined music genre combining elements of heavy metal and hardcore punk, originating in the 1990s United States and becoming popular in the 2000s.

Miami bass is a subgenre of hip-hop that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

Minimal techno is a subgenre of techno music.

Mizrahi music refers to a music genre in Israel that combines elements from the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; and is mostly performed by Israelis of Mizrahi Jewish descent.

Noise rock is a subgenre of rock music that originally emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Parang is a popular folk music originating from Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago that was brought to Trinidad and Tobago by Venezuelan migrants who were primarily of Amerindian, Spanish, Mestizo, Pardo, and African heritage, something which is strongly reflected in the music itself.

Soul jazz or funky jazz is a subgenre of jazz that incorporates strong influences from hard bop, blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues.

UK garage, abbreviated as UKG, is a genre of electronic music which originated in England in the early to mid-1990s.

African popular music can be defined as any African music, regardless of genre, that uses Western pop musical instruments, such as the guitar, piano, trumpet, etc.

Afroswing, also known as Afrobashment, or less commonly Afrobbean or Afro-trap, is a genre of music developed by African and Afro-Caribbean communities in the UK during the mid-2010s.

Alté is a fusion genre of music that combines elements of afrobeats, dancehall, reggae, hip hop, and alternative R&B.

Bassline is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard.

Breakcore is a style of electronic dance music that emerged from jungle, hardcore, and drum and bass in the mid-to-late 1990s.

Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock, as well as a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context.

Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, dominated by women that was popular in the 1920s in the United States.

Cloud rap is a subgenre of hip-hop that emerged from the Southern hip-hop scene in the late 2000s to early 2010s.

A corrido is a narrative metrical tale and poetry that forms a ballad.

Country blues is one of the earliest forms of blues music, but also refers to a blend of country music and blues.

Dansband, or danseband in Norwegian and Danish, is a Swedish term for a band that plays dansbandsmusik.

Disco polo is a genre of popular dance music, created in Poland in the 1980s.

Drum and bass (D&B), also known as drum 'n' bass, is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s.

Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop or I-pop, refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema.

Hip house, also known as rap house or house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip-hop, which originated in both London and Chicago in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Indie folk is an alternative genre of music that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music.

Koplo or dangdut koplo is a subgenre of dangdut, Indonesian popular dance & folk music, that originated in East Java during the early 2000s.

Kuduro is a type of music and dance born in Angola.

Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that emerged in the English city of Manchester during the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance movement.

Melodic techno is a subgenre of techno, characterized by the combination of repetitive rhythmic structures with a greater emphasis on melodies, harmonic progressions, and immersive atmospheres.

Musique concrète is a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material.

Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, and other North American countries—especially traditional tribal music, such as Pueblo music and Inuit music.

Neofolk is a music genre that originally emerged during the 1980s through the British post-punk and industrial music scene.

Post-disco is a term and genre to describe an aftermath in popular music history c. 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979.

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, Washington, and the greater Pacific Northwest, and has expanded to at least 26 other countries.

Brooklyn drill is a regional subgenre of drill music, which is a subgenre of hip-hop music.

Trova is a style of Cuban popular music originating in the 19th century.

The villancico or vilancete was a common poetic and musical form of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America popular from the late 15th to 18th centuries.

Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago.

Acid techno, sometimes known as "acid", is a genre of techno that was derived from acid house and developed in Europe in the late 1980s to early 1990s.

Alternative country is a loosely defined subgenre of country music that includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music, mainstream country rock, and country pop.

Amapiano is a genre of music from South Africa that became popular in mid-2012 with an earlier regular occurrence on South African radio stations in the early 2000s.

Anti-folk is a genre of folk music that emerged in the 1980s in New York City.

Axé (Portuguese pronunciation: [aˈʃɛ] is a key concept in the regional Candomblé religion, as "the imagined spiritual power and energy bestowed upon practitioners by the pantheon of orixás".

Azonto is a dance and music genre from Ghana.

Bhangra is a type of traditional music of the Punjab region.

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

Contemporary Christian music (CCM), also known as Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music, is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and stylistically rooted in Christian music.

Christian rock is a genre of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus.

A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are pressed, activating an action mechanism where hammers strike strings.

Cuarteto, sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina.

Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans during colonial times.

Desi, also Deshi, is a loose term used to describe the peoples, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora, derived from Sanskrit देश, meaning 'land' or 'country'.

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as strongly as it does pop melody.

A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners.

Drum and bass (D&B), also known as drum 'n' bass, is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s.

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s.

Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music and a subgenre of house music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 125–135 beats per minute.

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

Footwork, also called juke, or Chicago juke, is a genre of electronic dance music derived from ghetto house with elements of hip-hop, first appearing in Chicago in the late 1990s.

Hardcore hip-hop is a subgenre of hip-hop that developed through the East Coast hip-hop scene in the 1980s.

Hardcore is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s.

Hiplife is a Ghanaian musical style that fuses Ghanaian culture and hip hop.

Horror punk is a music genre that mixes punk rock and 1950s-influenced doo-wop and rockabilly sounds with morbid and violent imagery and lyrics which are often influenced by horror films and science fiction B-movies.

A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

Industrial music is a subgenre of experimental music that emerged in the mid-to late 1970s, primarily inspired by industrial society, while drawing influences from avant-garde and early electronic music genres such as musique concrète, tape music, noise and sound collage.

A jam band is a musical group whose concerts and live albums substantially feature improvisational "jamming".

Gagaku is a type of Japanese classical music that was historically used for imperial court music and dances.

Jazz fusion is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.

Korean ballad, also known as K-ballad, is a style of music in South Korea and a genre in which soul and rhythm and blues music is transformed to suit Korean sentiment.

Laïko is a Greek folk-pop music genre.

Latin hip-hop is a subgenre of hip hop music that is recorded by Spanish-speaking artists in North America, South America, and Spain.

Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms.

Lo-fi is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate stylistic choice.

Slacker rock is a subgenre of indie rock that emerged in the United States during the late 1980s to early 1990s.

A lullaby, or a cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music usually played for children.

Maloya is a musical genre of Reunion island, usually sung in Reunionese Creole, and traditionally accompanied by percussion and a musical bow.

Mariachi is a genre of regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico.

Progressive house is a subgenre of house music.

Minimalism is an art movement that emphasizes reducing art to its essentials, focusing on the object itself and the viewer's experience, with as little mediation from the artist as possible.

Nu jazz is a genre of jazz and electronic music.

Pinoy rock, or Filipino rock, is the brand of rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipinos.

Progressive house is a subgenre of house music.

Red dirt is a genre of country music that gets its name from the color of soil found in Oklahoma.

In Panama, dancehall reggae sung in Spanish language by artists of Latin American origin is known as Reggae en Español.

Roots rock is a genre of rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues, and country music.

Ska punk is a fusion genre that mixes ska with punk rock.

Soul blues is a style of blues music developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s that combines elements of soul music and urban contemporary music.

Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, and asceticism.

Synthwave is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with the soundtracks of action, science fiction, and horror films of the 1970s and 1980s.

Tango is a partner and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.

Texas country music is a subgenre of country music from Texas.

UK funky is a genre of electronic dance music which originated in England that is heavily influenced by soca, soulful house, tribal house, funky house, UK garage, broken beat and grime.