List of cultural and regional genres of music
Cultural genres
By race, ethnicity or origin
- Afrikaner
- Afro-Caribbean
- African American: blues, gospel, soul, funk, jazz, rock 'n' roll, hip
hop
- Ainu: yukar
- Andean: nueva cancion
- Arab: classical Arab music,
rai, sout,
gnawa, al-jil, chaabi
- Ashkenazi Jewish:
klezmer
- Australian Aborigine: didgeridoo, Aboriginal
rock
- Basque: trikitrixa, bersolari, shawm
and drum, fasil, raks, calgia
- Bedouin: zajal
- Berber
- Blackfoot
- Cajun and Louisiana Creole: la la, juré, zydeco,
swamp pop
- Celtic: jig, reel, strathspey, hornpipe
- Ewe
- Garifuna: punta, paranda, brukdown
- Gypsy: flamenco
- Hausa
- Igbo
- Immigrants to Australia
- Immigrants to the United States
- Indian-British
- Inuit: katajjaq
- Irish-American
- Jamaican-British
- Jewish: piyyutim, klezmer
- Kurd
- Latino-American
- Latino: bossa
nova, mariachi, punta, nueva cancion, Latin jazz, salsa, norteño, corridos, chachachá, tango, rumba, conga, merengue, calypso, mambo, conjunto, Latin rock, rock en espanol, nueva trova, bomba, plena, cumbia, llanera, zouk, lambada, choro, forró, vallenato
- Maori: kapa haka, waiata
- Native American and First Nations: chicken scratch, pow-wow,
peyote song
- Nordic: pols, polska, runo,
Scandinavian death metal, Finnish opera
- Palestinian: dabka, dalauna, meyjana
- Pedo
- Pygmy: hindewhu
- Russian
- Sami: joik
- Sephardic Jewish: Eastern Tradition, Western Tradition
- Sotho
- Tamil
- Yoruba
- Zulu
By religion
- Buddhism: shomyo
- Christianity: hymns,
spirituals, Gregorian
chant, wedding music,
requiem, gospel, CCM
- Hare
Krishna
- Hinduism: kriti, dhrupad, bhajan, dhamar
- Judaism: piyyutim, klezmer
- Latter-Day Saints
- Islam
- Native American religion: peyote song
- Rastafarianism: reggae, dub
- Shintoism: kagura
- Sikhism
- Zoroastrianism
See also: Music of the Vatican City
By language
- English
- Esperanto
- French
- Portuguese: fado,
samba, Angolan merengue, semba,
bossa nova, choro, lambada, MPB, baila, timbila, gumbe, marrabenta, morna
Geographic genres
By country
- Afghanistan: klasik, rubab
- Albania: llautë, çifteli, kaba
- Algeria: rai,
rabaab, sha-bii, hawzii, nuubaat
- Andorra: contrapàs, marratxa
- Angola: kilapanda, kizomba, Angolan
merengue, rebita, semba
- Antigua and Barbuda: steeldrum
- Argentina: rock nacional, milónga, chamamé, cuarteto, tango
- Armenia: duduk
- Australia: Australian rock, Australian hip hop,
kun-borrk, wangga, karma, didgeridoo, bunggul
- Austria: schrammelmusik, Baroque music
- Azerbaijan: mugam
- Bahamas: junkanoo, goombay
- Bahrain: sout, khaleeji
- Bangladesh
- Barbados: spouge, calypso, soca
- Belarus: skomorokhs, znamennogo, partesnoe
- Belgium: Belgian hip hop
- Belize: brukdown, punta
- Benin: tchinkoumé, tchink-system
- Bhutan: rigsar, zhungdra and boedra
- Bolivia: huayno, canto nuevo, nueva canción, lambada
- Bosnia and Herzegovina:
sevdalinka
- Botswana
- Brazil: choro,
bossa nova, fricote, carimbó,
MPB, boi, maracatú, forró, lambada, samba
- Brunei: Aduk-Aduk, jipin, adai-adai, benari
- Bulgaria: gaida, kaval
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia: pinpeat orchestra, kantrum, jamrieng samai
- Cameroon: makossa
- Canada: rock and roll, folk music, country music
- Cape Verde: morna
- Central African
Republic: mbela
- Chad
- Chile: nueva canción, canto nuevo
- China: shidaiqu, qin, baisha xiyue, hua-er, Nanguan ballad, chuigushou, Chinese rock, Cantopop
- Colombia: cumbia, porro, vallenato, musica de la interior, champeta, Colombian salsa
- Comoros: twarab, variet
- Congo-Kinsasha: kwassa kwassa, soukous, rumba
- Congo-Brazzaville:
makossa, soukous
- Costa Rica: calypso, marimba
- Côte d'Ivoire: gbébé, dopé, laba laba, polihet, rap dogba, zouglou, ziglibithy
- Croatia: tamburitza, gusle
- Cuba: son, son montuno, conga, rumba, punto, changuí, Cuban hip hop, música campesina, batá, nueva trova, timba, Latin jazz, conga, guajira, guaracha, mozambique,
bolero, chachachá, charanga, habanera, salsa, songa
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic: polka, bluegrass, trampská hudba, cimbalom
- Denmark: pols, fanik
- Djibouti: balwo
- Dominica: bouyon
- Dominican Republic:
merengue, gagá, bachata, salve
- East Timor: likurai
- Ecuador: marimba, bomba
- Egypt: al-jil
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea: bebon mvet
- Eritrea
- Estonia: runo-song, kannel
- Ethiopia: manzuma
- Fiji
- Finland: Finnish opera, runo, joik
- France: hurdygurdy, motete, minuet, gwerz,
Breton pipes, bal-musette, cabaret, chanson, French hip hop
- Gabon
- Gambia: Afro-Manding blues
- Georgia (country) (orovela, krimanchuli
- Germany: Alpine New Wave, Neue Deutsche Welle, krautrock, stubenmusik, burger highlife, oom-pah, German hip hop
- Ghana: highlife
- Greece: rembétiko, Sephardic music, laïkó, Greek hip hop
- Grenada
- Guatemala:
- Guinea:
- Guinea-Bissau: gumbe, brosca, kussundé, kundere, djambadon, tina, tinga, calibash
- Guyana
- Haiti: ra-ra, minijazz, menwat, compas direct, cadence rampa, méringue
- Honduras: guancasco
- Hungary: verbunkos, nota, csárdás
- Iceland: rímur, Icelandic hip hop
- India: filmi,
Carnatic music, khyal, kriti, dhrupad, Asian Underground, Dandiya, tarana, thillana, indo jazz,
bhajan, Sugama
Sangeetha,sitar, tabla, thumri, ghazal, bhangra
- Indonesia: gamelan, kebyar, jegog, joged bumbung, kroncong, langgam
jawa, gandrung, kecak, qasidah
modern, dangdut, jaipongan, angklung, kecapi suling, gambus, tapanuli
ogong, tembang sunda
- Iran: Iranian pop, musiqi-e assil
- Iraq: oud, rebab
- Ireland: sean nós
- Israel: Sephardic music, klezmer, Yemenite Jewish
music
- Italy: opera,
Italian hip hop, Sardinian
polyphonic singing, tarantella, canzone napoletana, ottava rima, trallalero, saltarello, neomelodici, Baroque music, tarantolati
- Music of the Ivory Coast|Ivory Coast
(see Music of Côte d'Ivoire)
- Jamaica: mento,
reggae, dub music, lovers rock, raggamuffin,
dancehall music
- Japan: gagaku,
togaku, Group Sounds, ryukoka, shoka, kayokyoku, gunka, kawachi ondo, enka, J-pop,
umui, shima uta, katcharsee, min'yo, sato kagura, yukar, biwa hoshi, shamisen, komagaku,
saibara, shomyo, dodompa, Japanese hip hop
- Jordan: zajal
- Kazakhstan: akyn, qobuz, dombra
- Kenya: taarab,
benga, Swahili sound, Congolese sound, Kikuyu pop, rurubene
- Kiribati: te kainikamaen
- Korea: (North and South): ppongtchak, Norae Undong, pansori, hyangak, aak,
tangak, sanjo, nongak, Korean hip hop, sinawi, chongak, t'ong guitar
- Kuwait: sout, (khaleeji)
- Kyrgyzstan: manaschi, komuz
- Laos: khaen, khaplam wai, lam nu, lam ploen, lam saravane, mor lam sing, lam
luang
- Latvia: daina,
kokle
- Lebanon
- Lesotho: lekolulo, thomo, setolo-tolo
- Liberia
- Libya: masoud, Arab classical music, huda
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania: rateliai, daino
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia: calgia, gajda
- Malawi: guitar-and-banjo duos, kwela, afroma,
kwasa kwasa
- Malaysia: silat, zapin, ronggeng, kertok
- Maldives: boduberu, thaara, Gaa odi lava, langiri, bolimalaafath neshun
- Mali: wassoulou
- Malta: l-ghana
- Marshall Islands: beet
- Mauritania: Al-bayda, Al-kahla, l'-gnaydiya
- Mauritius: seggae, sega
- Mexico: jarochos, jaliscienses, mariachi, Mexican
son, Mexican hip hop, cumbia, norteño, son huasteco, abajeños, istmeños, arpa grande, calentanos, corridos, ranchera, arribeño
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia: long-song, pop mop, horse-head fiddle, Tuvan throat-singing
- Morocco: chaabi, Sephardic music, gnawa
- Mozambique: marrabenta
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal: panchai baja, light music
- Netherlands: Nederpop, Dutch hip hop, gabber, Indo-rock
- New Zealand: waiata, haka,
Kiwi rock, kapahaka
- Nicaragua: marimba
- Niger
- Nigeria: apala,
Igbo highlife, Yo-pop, Afrobeat, fuji, juju
- Norway: wind music, fiddle, Scandinavian death metal
- Oman
- Pakistan: qawwali, tarana
- Palau
- Panama: mejorana, punto, amanojã, atravesao, tamborito
- Papua New Guinea: singsing, bamboo band
- Paraguay
- Peru: charango,
chicha, musica criolla, huayno, Andean New Age
- Philippines: kundiman, Pinoy rock, Manila
sound, Filipino hip hop
- Poland: polka,
Polish hip hop, mazurka,
klezmer
- Portugal: fado
- Qatar
- Romania: doina
- Russia: Tuvan throat-singing
- Rwanda: ikinimba
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines
- Samoa: pate,
fala
- San Marino
- São Tomé and Príncipe:
tchiloli, danço-congo, puxa
- Saudi Arabia: khaleeji
- Senegal: mbalax, sabar, hip hop
- Serbia and Montenegro:
novokomponovana narodni muzika, turbo-folk, kolo
- Seychelles: contombley, montea
- Sierra Leone: palm wine
- Singapore
- Slovakia: cardas, fujara
- Slovenia: polka, oberkrainer
- Solomon Islands: panpipe, bamboo band
- Somalia: batar
- South Africa: iscathamiya, kwela, marabi, mbaqanga, township jive, South African jazz
- Spain: flamenco, Spanish hip hop, Sephardic music
- Sri Lanka: baila
- Sudan: haqibah, riq
- Suriname: kaseko
- Swaziland
- Sweden: spelmanslag, polska, waltz, Scandinavian death metal, Swedish hip
hop, Europop, kulning, säckpipa, nyckelharpa
- Switzerland: Appenzell quartet, dialect rock raga rock, Swiss hip hop, Alpine New Wave, yodelling
- Syria: classical Arab music,
muwashshah
- Taiwan: quguan, Taiwanese pop, New Taiwanese Song, bayin, shan'ge, tea-picking opera, budaixi, yueqin, gezaixi
- Tajikistan: shashmaqam, falak
- Tanzania: taarab, ngoma, muziki wa dansi, hip hop
- Thailand: mor
lam, pleng phua
cheewit, string,
luk grung, wong shadow, khruang sai, piphat, pleng
Thai sakorn, luk thung, kantrum
- Togo
- Tonga: lali, hiva
usa
- Trinidad and Tobago: lavway, leggos, calypso, soca, parang,
pan, chutney, rapso, steeldrum
- Tunisia: malouf
- Turkey: Ottoman classical
music, Sephardic music, Turkish hip hop, arabesk, Anatolian rock, Sufi-Mevlevi music, tavern
- Turkmenistan: bakshy, dutar
- Tuvalu: kupu, fakanau,
fakaseasea
- Uganda: kadongo kamu
- Ukraine: bandura
- United Arab Emirates:
khaleeji
- United Kingdom: heavy metal, electronic music, Britpop, British rock, dream pop, synth pop, folk-rock, psychedelic rock, punk rock, progressive rock, New Wave of British heavy metal, lovers
rock, New Wave music, two-tone, drum and bass, twee pop, space rock, shoegazing, trip hop, jungle, British blues, British hip hop
- United States: American rock and roll,
jazz, country music, psychedelic rock, gospel, rockabilly, doo wop, soul, CCM, heavy metal,
punk rock, bluegrass,
hillbilly music, honkytonk, slack-key guitar, Western swing, salsa,
hip hop, jug band, folk-rock, grunge, hardcore punk, klezmer, zydeco, blues, house music, techno
- Uruguay: candombe, tango, murga
- Uzbekistan: shashmaqam
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela: llanera, calipso
- Vietnam: quan họ, hát tuồng, hát chèo, cải lương,
nhac toc cai bien,
hát chầu
văn, ca trù
- Western Sahara
- Yemen: Yemenite Jewish
music
- Zambia: Zam-rock
- Zimbabwe: chimurenga, jit
By continent or other international region
- Africa: African hip hop, rai, highlife, Fuji music, mbalax, milo jazz, kwela, mbaqanga, mbube,
Afropop, taarab, jit, juju, benga, makossa, rumba,
kwassa kwassa, soukous, jive
- Music of
Arabia
- Caribbean: junkanoo, reggae, dub,
salsa, merengue, bouyon, charanga, chutney, steelpan, zouk, biguine, spouge, cadence rampa, konpa direct, ska, mambo, rumba, salsa, son montuno,
reggaeton, plena, bomba, calypso, areito, chachachá, soca
- Caucasus
- Central America: mariachi, calentanos, ranchera, paranda, brukdown, salsa, corridos,
norteño, abajeños, son huasteco, istmeños, arpa grande, jaliscienses, arribeño, rock en espanol, jarochos, tamborito,
Mexican son, cumbia, punta
- Central
Asia: manaschi, bakshy, shashmaqam, akyn
- East
Africa
- East
Asia
- Eastern Europe
- Lesser Antilles: Combined rhythm, cadence-lypso, zouk, gwo ka, chouval bwa, tambour, biguine
- Melanesia
- Micronesia
- Middle
East
- North Africa
- North
America
- Northern Europe
- Polynesia: waiata, hula, lali, hiva usa, himene tarava, slack-key guitar, Imene tuki, imene metua, steel guitar
- South
America
- South
Asia
- Southeast
Asia
- Southern Europe
- West
Africa
- Western
Europe
By province, region or other sub-national entity
Australia
Canada
Regions:
Provinces and Territories:
Chile
China
Denmark
France
Overseas:
Greece
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
Mexico
Netherlands
Overseas:
New Zealand
Overseas:
Philippines
Romania
Russia
Spain
United Kingdom
Cities:
Regions:
Overseas:
United States
Regions:
Cities:
States:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California: West Coast rap, death rock, Paisley Underground, hair metal, mariachi, psychedelic rock, surf, Bakersfield sound
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida: Miami bass, Miami
sound
- Georgia
- Hawaii: steel guitar, slack-key guitar, hula
- Idaho
- Illinois: Chicago style
(music), Chicago blues, House music
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky: Appalachian folk music, bluegrass,
jug bands, country
music
- Louisiana: zydeco, la la, juré, swamp pop, New Orleans jazz, New Orleans blues
- Maine
- Maryland: doo
wop
- Massachusetts: punk rock, skinhead punk, alternative rock
- Michigan: Detroit sound, electronic music, Motown,
punk rock, ghettotech, Detroit blues, funk, Motown, soul music
- Minnesota: alternative rock, Minneapolis sound
- Mississippi: blues
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska: Omaha sound
- Nevada: punk
rock, lounge music
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York: East Coast rap, hip hop, salsa music, punk rock, Tin Pan Alley, stride, jazz
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio: punk
rock, garage rock
- Oklahoma
- Oregon: hardcore punk
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia soul, hip hop
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee: country music, Nashville Sound, honky-tonk
- Texas: norteño/Tex-Mex, punk rock, Texas blues, country music, Lubbock Sound
- Utah: Mormon folk music, Mormon pop
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington: twee pop, garage rock, grunge, riot grrl
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Overseas:
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