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African (142)
Alternative Rock (916)
Big Band (189)
Blues (1281)
By Decade (2613)
Cajun and Zydeco (108)
Celtic (545)
Choral (1524)
Christian (3359)
Classical (3395)
Country (2530)
Dance (894)
Disco (117)
Early Music (416)
Easy Listening (23)
Electronic (50)
Electronica (333)
Experimental (532)
Folk (1143)
Gamelan (28)
Gospel (12)
Heavy Metal (2449)
Hip Hop (795)
House (126)
Jazz (1947)
Klezmer (50)
Latin (422)
Lounge (30)
Marching (1311)
Middle Eastern (150)
Military Bands and Music (45)
Native American (100)
Opera (959)
Polka (74)
Pop (382)
Progressive Rock (697)
Punk (1803)
Reggae (244)
Regional and Ethnic (2453)
Religious (13)
Rhythm and Blues (300)
Rock (7869)
Show Tunes (1829)
Ska (180)
Swing (250)
Techno (147)
Traditional Pop (82)
Vocal (220)
Worldbeat (65)
Zydeco (40)
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Web Pages
  Wikipedia: Musical Genre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
  All Music Guide http://allmusic.com/
Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews.
  Indiana University School of Music: Genres http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html
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.
  DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler http://datadragon.com/education/genres/
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.
  Ectophiles Guide by Genre http://ectoguide.org/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.
  Music Classification by Genre: System Performance http://cnx.org/content/m11690/latest/
Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples.
  Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/index.cgi?command=Display_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.
  Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html
Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country.
  A Taxonomy of Musical Genres http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/pachet-riao2000.pdf
Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000.
  Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art http://www.idiap.ch/~paiement/references/to_read/music/genre_classification/pachet-02c.pdf
Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available On 898 line.
  InfoUSA: Musical Genres http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/genres.htm
Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music.
  Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php
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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