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Bluegrass
Bands and Artists, Festivals, Magazines, Radio, Regional, Banjoboy's Place, Barb Diederich's Handy Bluegrass Links, Bluegrass Bios, Bluegrass Guitar, Bluegrassbox, DeskTopGrass, Don DePoy, ETSU Bluegrass and Country Music Program, European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA), Hashel Colvin
Blues
Bands and Artists, Blues Societies, Clubs, Education, Fan Pages, Festivals, History, Instruments, Magazines, Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
By Decade
1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Jeff's Radio Gold, Shelley van Loen and the Palmcourt Strings, Southern Music Network
Choral
Composers, Directories, Festivals, Gospel, Organizations, Performing Groups, Regional, Resources, Sheet Music, Societies
Classical
Brass Bands, Business, Calendar, Chamber Ensembles, Choirs, Concert Bands and Wind Ensembles, Conductors, Contemporary, Directories, Forms
Classical Indian
Bands and Artists, Carnatic, Hindustani, Organizations, Guide to Classical Indian/Jazz Fusion, Indian Classical Music by Jan Haag, Indian Classical Music Portal, Indian Music Links, Indian Rhythmic Cycles, Makar Records, Pandit Ram Sahai Sangit Vidyalaya, Ragascape, Sawf Archive of Articles on Classical Indian Music, SAWF: Globalization and Indian Classical Music: T
Country
Alternative, Associations, Bands and Artists, Charts, Magazines and E-zines, Personal Pages, Radio, Reviews, Songwriters, Sound Files
Dance
Ballroom, Clubbing, Disco, Drum and Bass, Euro Dance, Freestyle, Ghettotech, House, Radio, Techno
Early Music
Bibliographic Resources, Composers, Directories, Discographies, Education, Festivals, Instruments, Mailing Lists, MIDI Sites, Organizations
Easy Listening
Bands and Artists, Easy Listening Music, Global Suitcase Musical Recordings, Light Music Hall of Fame, Muzak, Robert Farnon Society, Space Age Pop Music, Topix.net: Easy Listening, Val Productions
Electronic
Bands and Artists, Magazines and E-zines, Personal Pages, Radio, Regional, Sound Files, Absorb, Analogik, Andrew's Online, Armada Electro, Beatseek, Chicago, Dektronics, Electronic Artists Society, Electronic Music Foundation, Electronic Music Historical Overview
Electronica
Acid Jazz, Bands and Artists, Big Beat, Electro Funk, I.D.M., Magazines and E-zines, Personal Pages, Regional, Sound Files, Trip Hop
Experimental
Ambient, Bands and Artists, Fractal Music, Futurism, Magazines and E-zines, Noise, Organizations, Radio, Allsound, European Free Improvisation, Insine, L'entrepot, Livingroom.org, Mother Tongue Projects, Musings, NoiseIndex, NoiseWeb, NOMUSIC
Folk
Bands and Artists, Clubs and Venues, Directories, Education, Festivals, Filk, Folk-Rock, Magazines and E-zines, Organizations, Radio Programs
Hip Hop
Bands and Artists, Chats and Forums, History, Magazines and E-zines, Personal Pages, Radio Stations, Regional, Reviews, Sound Files, Underground
Holiday
Halloween
Jazz
Bands and Artists, Big Band, Chats and Forums, Clubs, Composers, Dixieland, Education, Festivals, Fusion, Guides and Directories
Lounge
Bands and Artists, Ariel's Easy Page, Club Velvet, Exotica and Polynesian Music, Exotica Archive, In Hi-Fi, Just for Kicks: The Music of Bob Thompson, LuxuriaMusic, Maxelect Records, Mister Lucky, Mr. Suave's Swingin' Cocktail Lounge
New Age
Bands and Artists, Radio, Carol Wright's New Age Music Writing, Celestial Voices, Hearts Of Space, Loch Ness Productions, New Age Music, Writings by Serge Kozlovsky
Opera
Chats and Forums, Composers, Directories, History, Houses and Companies, Individual Operas, Libretti, Organizations, Performers, Personal Pages
Parody and Humor
Bands and Artists, Flagpole Magazine: Flying Saucer Freak-out
Pop
Bands and Artists, Boy Bands, British Invasion, Girl Groups, Lyrics, Magazines and E-zines, Mod, Motown, Synthpop, Teen
Regional and Ethnic
African, Afrobeat, Cajun and Zydeco, Calypso, Caribbean, Celtic, Flamenco, Gamelan, Hawaiian, Inuit
Rhythm and Blues
Bands and Artists, Carolina Beach, Funk, Radio, Classic Soul Music, E-Jams, East Coast Groove, MusicAustin: Spotlight on Austin Music, Neo Soul Masters, R&B Krazy, Rhythm & Blues Foundation, Rhythm and Blues Music Primer, RnB and Hip Hop World, Showtime At The Regal Theater
Rock
Alternative, Bands and Artists, Classic, Electroclash, Emo, Garage, Gothic, Heavy Metal, History, Industrial
Vocal
Harmony Vocal Group, Nostalgia, Radio, Singers, Tin Pan Alley Pop, Torch Songs, Traditional Pop, American Popular Song, American Popular Song, AMG: Vocal Music, Craig's BigBands and BigNames, Golden Age of American Popular Song, Ian Whitcomb's Literary Corner, JD Hay's Crooners, Jukebox: American Popular Music in the 1930s, Parlor Songs, Topix.net: Vocal
A 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.
AllMusic Guide: Genres
Musical style sort with detailed definitions from site maintained by musical journalists. Requires free registration.
American Music Center: Musical Genres
Links to articles and representative artists of styles such as pop, rock, blues, folk, classical, theater, jazz, and world music.
Audiogalaxy: 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.
Christian 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.
DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.
Duke University Library: Women in Music By Musical
Text lists and links to library resources such as books, periodicals and recordings on women performers and composers by musical genre.
Ectophiles 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.
Indiana University School of Music: Genres
Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Unusual categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music.
InfoUSA: Musical Genres
Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music.
Music 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.
Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres
Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country.
Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art
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 Online.
Wikipedia: 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.