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Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock, or simply alternative) refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial rock or pop music.
Industrial
Industrial music is a genre of experimental/electronic music that draws on transgressive or provocative sounds and themes. The style is harsh and challenging. AllMusic defines industrial as the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music".
Shoegaze
Initially referred to as "dream pop", is a subgenre of indie and alternative rock. It is characterized by its ethereal-sounding mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume.
Grunge
The term grunge was first used to describe the murky-guitar bands (most notably Nirvana and Pearl Jam) that emerged from Seattle in the late 1980s as a bridge between mainstream 1980s heavy metal–hard rock and postpunk alternative rock.
Goth
Gothic rock is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted towards dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus, and the Cure. The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from post-punk.
Emo
Emo is a rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics.
Ambient Music
A genre of instrumental music that focuses on sound patterns more than melodic form and is used to create a certain atmosphere or state of mind.
Soundcapes
A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment.
Meditation
Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition.
New Age
New-age music is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.
Blues
As a musical style, the blues is characterized by expressive “microtonal” pitch inflections (blue notes), a three-line textual stanza of the form AAB, and a 12-measure form. In terms of functional (i.e., traditional European) harmony, the simplest blues harmonic progression is described as follows (I, IV, and V refer respectively to the first or tonic, fourth or subdominant, and fifth or dominant notes of the scale)
Boogie Woogie
The style originated from blues music and was a key influence in the later rock and roll movement. Boogie woogie featured piano music that emphasized rhythm, unpredictable lyrics, and repeating rhythms played by the left hand.
Chicago
A form of blues music developed in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1950s, in which the basic instrumentation of Delta blues—acoustic guitar and harmonica—is augmented with electric guitar, amplified bass guitar, drums, piano, harmonica played with a microphone and an amplifier, and sometimes saxophone.
Delta
Delta blues is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style. Vocal styles in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.
Electric
Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.
Contemporary R&B
(commonly referred to as simply R&B)
A music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.
The genre features a distinctive record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, pitch corrected vocals, and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement.
Texas
Texas blues is blues music from Texas. As a regional style, its original form was characterized by jazz and swing influences. Later examples are often closer to blues rock and Southern rock.
Novelty/Other
A person who performs music or other entertainment in the street or another public place for monetary donations.
Balancing
A circus act in which a performer displays his or her balancing ability
Jugglers
One skilled in keeping several objects in motion in the air at the same time by alternately tossing and catching them
Magic
Magic is the art and skill of performing mysterious tricks to entertain people, for example by making things appear and disappear.
Mimes
A mime is a performer who uses exaggerated facial expressions and body movements — instead of words — to communicate with his audience.
Musicians
A person who plays a musical instrument on the street for money or for hire at buskerfests.
Children's music
Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children. In European-influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience.
Disney
Disney music deserves it's own genre, primarily because they helped define the movie music we love, with an unnerving ability to remain catchy and relevant far after their movies have left the theater.
Baroque
Baroque music, a style of music that prevailed during the period from about 1600 to about 1750, known for its grandiose, dramatic, and energetic spirit but also for its stylistic diversity.
Chamber music
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.
Classical music Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music. While a more precise term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the Classical period)
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers, but is distinct from musical theatre.
Orchestra
The orchestra, or symphony orchestra, is generally defined as an ensemble mainly composing of bowed stringed instruments, percussion, wind and brass instruments.
Comedy
In a modern sense, comedy (from the Greek: komoidía) is a genre of fiction that refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter.
Music
Comedy music is music that is comic or humorous in nature, encompassing a wide variety of music genres. Popular types of comedy music include parody music, novelty songs, comedy pop, comedy rock and comedy hip hop.
Impersonator
An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another.
Improv
Improvisation, or improv, is a form of live theatre in which the plot, characters and dialogue of a game, scene or story are made up in the moment.
Prop
Prop comedy is a comedy genre in which performers use humorous objects, or conventional objects in humorous ways.
Stand-up
Stand-up comedy is a comedic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them through a microphone.
Ventriloquism
Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) creates the illusion that their voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered prop, known as a "dummy".
Alt-country
Alternative country, also referred to as "Americana," "Cowpunk," "Y'alternative," "No Depression," and "Insurgent Country," is a catch-all term describing a diverse musical genre that combines forms of traditional country music, such as twang, swing, rockabilly, and bluegrass, with the ethos and sound of punk rock.
Americana
Americana is contemporary music that incorporates elements of various American roots music styles, including country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues, resulting in a distinctive roots-oriented sound that lives in a world apart from the pure forms of the genres upon which it may draw
Bluegrass
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the United States Appalachian region. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. ... Bluegrass features acoustic string instruments and emphasizes the off-beat.
Country and Western
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that takes its roots from genres such as blues and old-time music, and various types of American folk music including Appalachian, Cajun, and the cowboy Western music styles of Red Dirt, New Mexico, Texas country, and Tejano.
Country Blues
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is one of the earliest forms of blues music. The mainly solo vocal with acoustic fingerstyle guitar accompaniment developed in the rural Southern United States in the early 1900s.
Country Folk
Country folk as a genre label is a rather nebulous one, but one that has been employed often at least since the mid-1970s. For dedicated enthusiasts, the category largely includes the works of contemplative post-Dylan singer-songwriters, who were influenced by his and other late 1960s' and 1970s' artists' country rock sounds, but who, recording slightly later, preferred a gentler, more acoustic-dominant sound that allowed focus on the lyrics.
Country Rock
Country rock is a subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.
Country Pop
Country pop (also known as pop country) is a fusion genre of country music and pop music that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience. Country pop music blends genres like rock, pop, and country,
Country Rap
Country rap (or Country hip hop) is a fusion genre of popular music blasting country music with hip hop-style rapping
Folk
The traditional music of the people in a country or region.
A type of popular music that is based on traditional music and that does not use electric instruments
Hillbilly
Folk music combined with elements of popular music in which the banjo, fiddle, and guitar are principal instruments: a type of music that originated in mountain regions of the southern U.S
Honky Tonk
A country style that emerged in the 1940s with such figures as Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams. Honky-tonk’s fiddle–steel-guitar combination and its bitter, maudlin lyrics about rural whites adrift in the big city were widely adopted by other country musicians.
Outlaw
Outlaw music was a rock and roots music hybrid that had a local flavour
Rockabilly
As a genre it blends the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blues, leading to what is considered "classic" rock and roll.
Roots
Roots music is a broad category of music including bluegrass, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music.
Dance
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement.
Electronic
Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a set of percussive electronic music genres produced primarily for environments centered in dance-based entertainment, such as nightclub settings.
Tribal
Tribal house is a subgenre of house music which combines traditional house music with world music. It is similar in structure to deep house, but provides elements of ethnic or indigenous musical percussions (typically conga drums or its synthesized derivative)
Christian Rock
Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus,
Gospel/Religion
Gospel music, a genre of American Protestant music, rooted in the religious revivals of the 19th century, which developed in different directions within the white (European American) and Black (African American) communities of the United States.
Ethnic
Ethnic music assumes different forms in religious communities based on denominational distinctiveness, expressing the cohesiveness of belief systems.
Ethnic music connects a community to a selected component of its past, but it does so to give meaning to the present.
Inspirational
Inspirational. In a nutshell, it encompasses all kinds of genres from Gospel to Christian to Adult Contemporary, Children’s music, Classical Crossover and Instrumental.
Choir
Choral music is music performed by a group of singers or a choir. The singers may perform without accompaniment, or may be accompanied by any instrumental combination, from piano to full orchestra
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in Black American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B)
Deep funk
Deep funk is a genre of funk music which, unlike traditional mainstream funk, has a more soulful, rawer, grittier, and "heavier" sound.
Electro Funk
Electro (or electro-funk) is a genre of electronic music and early hip hop directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines
Funk jam
It typically incorporates elements of funk and often exploratory guitar, along with extended cross genre improvisations; often including elements of jazz, ambient, electronic, Americana, and hip hop including improvised lyrics.
G-funk
G-funk is a fusion genre of music which combines gangsta rap and funk.
Rare Groove
A style of music found at the intersection of jazz,funk,and rock.
Hip hop
Hip hop is more than a genre: it’s a cultural movement sweeping up music, poetry, dance, art, fashion, and political philosophy. A lot of people use rap and hip-hop synonymously, but strictly speaking hip-hop is a cultural movement (including music), whereas rap is a specific musical technique often employed in hip-hop music.
Beat Tape
Beat tapes, a collection of sometimes unfinished instrumental productions designed to showcase a producer's skills, have today become an accepted release format as popular as their close relative, the mixtape
Boom Bap
The term "boom bap" is an onomatopoeia that represents the sounds used for the bass drum and snare drum, respectively.
Gangster Rap
Hip-hop music with lyrics explicitly portraying the violence and drug use of American inner-city gang life
Hardcore
Hardcore hip hop (also hardcore rap) is a genre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s. It is generally characterized by anger, aggression and confrontation.
New Jack Swing
Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines new jack swing as "pop music usually performed by black musicians that combines elements of jazz, funk, rap, and rhythm and blues"
Rap
Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment
Jazz
Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion mixes jazz with rock. Some jazz fusion also uses funk, rhythm and blues and world music.
Jazz fusion is usually played with instruments, without singing.
Big Band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
Swing
"Swing" refers to a particular genre of jazz music for dancing a specific kind of couples' dance. The style of dancing is called swing dancing, ...
Bebop
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure
Ragtime
Ragtime, propulsively syncopated musical style, one forerunner of jazz and the predominant style of American popular music from about 1899 to 1917.
Light Jazz
It avoids the improvisational "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form. Much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B".
Bolero
Bolero refers to two distinct genres of slow-tempo Latin music and their associated dances.
Brazilian
Music is one of the cornerstones of Brazil; genres like samba are synonymous with Brazilian culture. The remarkable aspect of Brazilian music is that so many genres are unique to the nation – bossa nova, samba, and sertanejo to name just a few.
Calypso
Calypso, a type of folk song primarily from Trinidad though sung elsewhere in the southern and eastern Caribbean islands. The subject of a calypso text, usually witty and satiric, is a local and topical event of political and social import, and the tone is one of allusion, mockery, and double entendre
Flamenco
Flamenco, form of song, dance, and instrumental (mostly guitar) music commonly associated with the Andalusian Roma (Gypsies) of southern Spain
Latin
Latin music (Portuguese and Spanish: música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all term for music that comes from Spanish and Portuguese speaking areas of the world, namely Ibero-America and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as music sung in either language.
Merengue
Merengue is a type of music that was born in the Dominican Republic, and the two are intimately associated. Merengue is to the Dominican Republic what blues, jazz, and hip-hop are to the United States—a musical style and dance that seems to represent the spirit of an entire country.
Salsa
Salsa is the product of various Cuban musical genres including the Afro-Cuban son montuno, guaracha, cha cha chá, mambo, and Puerto Rican plena and bomba
Steel band
Steel band, also spelled steelband, Trinidadian music ensemble, particularly associated with Carnival, that is primarily composed of steel idiophones called pans or steel pans—made from the bottoms of 55-gallon oil barrels. The barrel bottoms are hammered inward, different areas being shaped to yield distinct pitches
Tropical
Tropical music (Spanish: música tropical) is a category used in the music industry to denote Latin music from the Caribbean. It encompasses music from the Spanish-speaking islands and coasts of the Caribbean, as well as genres rooted in this region such as salsa
Marching Band
A marching band is a sporting group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who incorporate movement – usually some type of marching – with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments and the music usually incorporates a strong rhythmic component suitable for marching
Parade
Parade bands generally play march music. Instrumentation varies, and can contain anything from bagpipes or fife, fifes and drums all the way to full wind and percussion sections.
School
A school band consists of wind instruments and percussion instruments, although upper level bands may also have string basses or bass guitar.
Pop
Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music, distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music. The term does not refer specifically to a single genre or sound, and its meaning is different depending on the time and place.
Bubblegum
Bubblegum (also called bubblegum pop) is pop music with an upbeat sound that is considered to be disposable, contrived, or marketed for children and adolescents.
Britpop
Britpop, movement of British rock bands in the 1990s that drew consciously on the tradition of melodic, guitar-based British pop music established by the Beatles.
Dance-pop
It is generally up-tempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit radio
Electropop
Electropop is a music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Usually, it is described as a variant of synth-pop with heavy emphasis on its electronic sound.
Experimental
Experimental pop is pop music that cannot be categorized within traditional musical boundaries or which attempts to push elements of existing popular forms into new areas. It may incorporate experimental techniques such as musique concrète, aleatoric music, or eclecticism into pop contexts.
JPop
JPop is generally Japanese Pop-Music. If you want to describe its style, you can say that it's often a mix between Pop and Rock. Aikawa Nanase is a good JPop
Technotronic
Technotronic was a Belgian techno studio-based music project formed in 1988 by Jo Bogaert,
Reggae
a style of Jamaican popular music blending blues, calypso, and rock-'n'-roll, characterized by a strong syncopated rhythm and lyrics of social protest.
Dancehall
Dancehall is contemporary Jamaican music that is intended for younger generations. It's meant to be danced to, which is why it's referred to as “reggae dancehall.”
Dub
A remix of a track using only a limited sample of the original's lyrics, commonly the repetition of a single word or line "dubbed" over an instrumental track. The term originates from the dub genre of music, which consisted of raggae tracks stripped to their bass and percussion and overlayed with vocal and other samples
Reggaeton
It has evolved from dancehall and has been influenced by American hip hop, Latin American, and Caribbean music. Vocals include rapping and singing,
Ragga
Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music. Similar to hip hop, sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music
Ska
A genre of music stylized by the influences of American jazz and swing, born out of Jamaica. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat.
R&B
A combination of jazz, gospel, and blues, the term "R&B" was originally coined in the late 1940’s in the United States to be used as a less offensive marketing term. The original genre focused on boogie rhythms
Soul
A kind of music incorporating elements of rhythm and blues and gospel music, popularized by African-Americans. Characterized by an emphasis on vocals and an impassioned improvisatory delivery,
Motown
Also called Motown sound. An upbeat, often pop-influenced style of rhythm and blues associated with the city of Detroit and with numerous Black vocalists and vocal groups since the 1950s, characterized by compact, danceable arrangements.
Urban
Urban contemporary, also known as hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music
Alternative
"Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial rock or pop music.
Blues Rock
Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock
Folk Rock
A style of music combining characteristics of rock-'n'-roll and folk music, often exemplified by protest songs to a rock'n'roll beat
Glam Rock
Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.
Goth
Its reputation as the darkest and gloomiest form of underground rock is largely deserved. Sonically, goth rock took the cold synthesizers and processed guitars of post-punk and used them to construct sorrowful and often epic soundscapes.
Hard Rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, and drums, sometimes accompanied with keyboards.
Heavy Metal
Heavy metal, genre of rock music that includes a group of related styles that are intense, virtuosic, and powerful. Driven by the aggressive sounds of the distorted electric guitar, heavy metal is arguably the most commercially successful genre of rock music
Instrumental Rock
Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no singing
Latin Rock
Latin rock is a term to describe a music subgenre consisting in melting traditional sounds and elements of Latin American and Caribbean folk with rock music.
Progressive Rock
Progressive rock is a type of rock music with complicated musical technique and composition. This means that the tempo, time signature, and style can change many times in a single song
Punk Rock
Punk rock is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock
Psychedelic Rock
Psychedelic rock, style of rock music popular in the late 1960s that was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called “mind-expanding” drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide; “acid”), and that reflected drug-induced states through the use of feedback, electronics, and intense volume.
Rock
A form of popular music that evolved from rock and roll and pop music during the mid and late 1960s. Harsher and often self-consciously more serious than its predecessors, it was initially characterized by musical experimentation and drug-related or antiestablishment lyrics.
Rock n Roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s from musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, and country music.
Soft Rock
A comparatively unaggressive, melodic style of rock-'n'-roll in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat.
Southern Rock
Southern rock, popular music style combining blues jams and boogie licks with lyrics declaring fierce regional pride.
Surf Rock
Surf music is characterized by surf-related lyrics, high harmony vocals, catchy and earworm-y guitar solos and riffs, and high reverberation levels.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, video games or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.
Film
Any audio track that comes from movies or tv shows.
Other
Any audio track that comes from sources other than movies, tv shows or videos
Video Games
Any audio track that comes from a video game
Audiobook
An audiobook is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud.
Other/Spoken Word
Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poetic as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. ... Unlike written poetry, the poetic text takes its quality less from the visual aesthetics on a page, but depends more on phonaesthetics, or the aesthetics of sound.
Poetry
Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm
Self-Help
We define a self-help book as any book written with the explicit intention of helping its readers change or improve some aspect of their personal or professional lives
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