A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be...
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has also been highly influential on the genre. The name of the subgenre comes from "Miss the Rage", a genre-pioneering track made in 2021 by Trippie...
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This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be...
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revival, is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements...
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Bassline (sometimes referred to as bassline house or 4x4 or Niche) is a music genre closely related to UK garage that originated in South Yorkshire and the...
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electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology...
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literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing...
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. During the...
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distorted vocals. The genre is noted for its influence from industrial. Power electronics is generally atonal, like most noise music; it also features a...
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previous 2016 AMA definition of the genre included rhythm and blues, with additional comments that Americana music results "in a distinctive roots-oriented...
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Rabiz or rabis (Armenian: ռաբիզ, ռաբիս) is a genre of Armenian popular music, distinguished by its lyrics and dance-oriented synthesized melodies in 6/8...
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It...
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sounds within other heavy metal genres, unconventional song structures, and sometimes experimental approaches to heavy music. Many of the early alternative...
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Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range...
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on the scene in The New York Times examined the genre's aggression: "With rare exception this music is unmediated and raw and without bright spots, focused...
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New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and...
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appearing in 1999. The genre gets its name from the Atlanta slang term "trap house", a house used exclusively to sell drugs. Trap music is known for its simple...
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This is a list of musical genres within the context of classical music, organized according to the corresponding periods in which they arose or became...
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Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...
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for on the Internet). Despite the name of the genre, witch house has little in common with house music, which generally features a strong up-tempo beat...
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Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s...
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Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made...
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post-industrial music. This list details some of these offshoots, including fusions with other experimental and electronic music genres as well as rock...
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House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. It was...
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This is a list of rock music genres consisting of subgenres of popular music that have roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, and which developed into...
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Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest...
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Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people...
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In addition, genres have associated film scoring conventions, such as lush string orchestras for romantic melodramas or electronic music for science fiction...
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Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, religious or linguistic group. Ainu Indigenous Australian Maori Palestinian...
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New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening...
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