By Decade 704
African 88
Alternative Rock 488
Big Band 161
Blues 1,061
Broadway 1,331
Cajun and Zydeco 71
Celtic 353
Choral 1,084
Christian 2,754
Classical 2,045
Comedy 97
Country 1,851
Dance 715
Disco 86
Early Music 317
Easy Listening 21
Electronic 33
Electronica 187
Experimental 371
Folk 713
Gamelan 26
Gospel 15
Heavy Metal 1,733
Hip Hop 540
House 95
Humor and Parody 29
Jazz 1,530
Klezmer 45
Latin 277
Lounge 26
Marching 1,099
Middle Eastern 109
Military Bands and Music 27
Native American 60
Opera 331
Parody and Humor 29
Polka 68
Pop 143
Progressive Rock 520
Punk 1,285
Rap 540
Reggae 187
Religious 3
Rhythm and Blues 167
Rock 5,250
Show Tunes 1,331
Ska 97
Swing 216
Techno 119
Traditional Pop 13
Vocal 50
Worldbeat 34
Zydeco 25
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Specialty - Music, Audio, Recordings, Entertainment, Shopping 930
Regional and Ethnic 1,681
 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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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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