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Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music.
Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, religious or linguistic group. Cultural genres [ edit ] By ethnicity or origin [ edit ]
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 distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Boogie – 1. a repetitive form of rhythm found in boogie-woogie. 2. a style of funk characterized by a mid-tempo post-disco rhythm, prominent use of slap bass, loud clapping sound, and its new wave melodic chords and synthesizers. Boogie rock – a style of blues rock that fuses rock music with boogie-woogie.
This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total. Microgenres (3 C, 28 P) Music genres by theme (2 C, 1 P) Musical subgenres by genre (57 C) Music genres by century (6 C) Music genres by period (4 C) Musical genres by region (7 C)
F. List of European folk music traditions. List of Oceanic and Australian folk music traditions. List of Asian folk music traditions. List of Caribbean folk music traditions. List of Central American folk music traditions. List of North American folk music traditions. List of South American folk music traditions.
Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the population, [8] whereas pop music usually refers to a specific musical genre within popular music. [9] Popular music songs and pieces typically have easily singable melodies.
Caribbean music genres (12 C, 21 P) Christian music genres (6 C, 14 P) Christian rock genres (3 C, 7 P) Classical music styles (65 P) Comedy music genres (4 C) Contemporary folk genres (8 C, 8 P) Contemporary R&B genres (3 C, 13 P) Country music genres (20 C, 38 P) Cumbia music genres (11 P)