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I subscibe to several newsletters on Internet. Some of them have music as their main topic. I like to read about old and new artists, and I find it interesting to see what's happening in the music world in general.
One of the weekly newsletters presents in each issue a handful of albums, and it "files" these albums into a music types. I soon noticed that the list of different types - or genres - grew longer and longer, and I began to wonder how numerous they are. So I made a list of all the names I found in the newsletter.
A lot of music types, most of them non-American, haven't made it to the newsletter pages yet, as far as I can see. Still the list is very long. Most of the names don't mean anything to me, but that's my fault, of course. One certainly has to be a music expert to keep them apart. By the way, the two most numerous types are indie pop and indie rock.
Once upon a time the name rock 'n' roll encompassed most of the music that youths listened to. Yes, rock 'n' roll is still on the list, but only one album among more than four hundred was filed as just plain "rock 'n' roll". However, a lot of albums are called pop/rock, hard rock, acid rock and so on.
I don't know how the newsletters editors pick a music category for an album, but I guess this extensive fragmentation isn't their work. Most of these names must have been coined by musicians (or singers). A lot of artists make use of these names as brand names or even patent claims, a way of saying: "This is our music, you have to by one of our albums to get it!" So, it boils down to marketing certain albums as something apart from what other artists have recorded.
Here is the music type list - so far. When I first put it on my web-site, the number of categories was 140. Today (Nov. 2007) they count more than 220. Are all of them alive? Several look like shortlived fads - last week someone wrote that "hyphy [is] no longer breaking news in 2007". Could it be another case of Theodor Sturgeons law: "Ninety percent of everything is garbage"?
Back to the list below. You may test yourself: Who's playing what? But please don't email me for the answers! However, if you have comments or explanations you'll find me at this e-mail address.
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Acid jazz Acid rock Acoustic blues Acoustic Chicago blues Adult alternative pop/rock Adult contemporary Afro-beat Alternative country Alternative country-rock Alternative dance Alternative folk Alternative metal Alternative rap Ambient Ambient pop American trad-rock American underground Americana Anti-folk Appalachian folk Art-rock/experimental Asian pop Atmospheric drum ‘n’ bass Avant-garde jazz Bakersfield sound Baroque pop Beats/instrumental hip-hop Big beats Black gospel Blue-eyed soul Blues-rock Boogie rock Breakbeat/breaks British folk-rock British metal British punk British rap Britpop Cabaret CCM Celtic folk Chicago house Chicago rock Choral Christian rock Classical crossover Club/dance College rock |
Comedy Comedy rock Contemporary bluegrass Contemporary country Contemporary folk Contemporary gospel Contemporary jazz Contemporary instrumental Contemporary R&B Cool Country-folk Country-pop Country rock singer/songwriter Crossover jazz Dancehall Dance-pop Death metal/black metal Deep house Deep soul Delta blues Detroit blues Dirty south Downtempo Dream pop Druggy Drum ‘n’ bass Dub reggae East coast rap Easy pop Electric country blues Electric Memphis blues Electro Electro-dub Electronica Electronic classical Emo Euro-pop Experimental Experimental classical Experimental rock Film soundtracks Finger-picked guitar Flamenco Folk-pop Folk singer/songwriter Free jazz Funk Funk metal Fusion Gangsta rap |
Garage rock Garage rock revival Garage punk General General Holiday Golden age Goa Goth Grunge Hannukah Hard bop Hard rock Hardcore punk Hardcore rap Heavy-metal Honky tonk House Hyphy IDM Illbient Improvised music Indian classical Indie pop Indie rock Industrial Industrial-electronic Intelligent techno Instrumental rock Jam bands Jangle pop Jazz Jazz-funk Jazz-influenced Jazz-pop Jazz-rap Jump blues Jump-up Latin folk Latin jazz Latin pop Lo-fi Louisiana blues Mantras Middle East Minimal Neo-prog Neo-psychedelia Neo-soul Neo-traditionalist country New Orleans jazz |
New Orleans R&B New wave New wave of British heavy metal New York punk Noise Noise pop No wave Outlaw country Parodies Party rap Philly soul Political folk Political rap Political/concious reggae Pop Pop-metal Pop/rock Pop-rap Pop-soul Pop underground Post-bop Post-grunge Post-punk Post-rock Power metal Power pop Prog rock/art rock Progressive bluegrass Progressive country Progressive electronic Progressive folk Proto-punk Psychedelic Psychedelic pop Psychedelic soul Pub rock Punk Punk metal Punk revival Punk-pop Rai Rap-metal Reggae-pop Retro-soul Retro swing Rhytm 'n' blues Rhytm 'n' blues/soul Riot grrrl Rock ‘n’ roll |
Rock en Espanol Rocksteady Roots rock Roots reggae Sadcore Samba Satire Secular Christmas Shoegaze Singer/songwriter Slack-key Guitar Smooth jazz Solo instrumentals Soul Soul-jazz Soul-jazz/Hip-hop Southern rap Southern rock Space-rock Speed metal Spiritual Christmas Spoken Word Standards Steel band Stoner metal Surf Swing Synth pop Tech step Teen idol Texas Blues Thrash Tin Pan Alley pop Torch songs Traditional bluegrass Traditional country Traditional folk Trance Trip hop Turntablism Twee pop Underground rap Urban Urban folk Vocal house Vocal pop West Coast rap World fusion Worldbeat |