This is a list of the commercially relevant genres in modern popular music. Applicable styles are classified in this list using AllMusic^[1] genre categorization.

African

Asian

• Fann at-Tanbura
• Fijiri
• Khaliji
• Liwa
• Sawt

East Asian

South and southeast Asian

Avant-garde

• Experimental music
• Noise
• Lo-fi
• Musique concrte
• Electroacoustic

Blues

Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced

Comedy

• Comedy music
• Comedy rock
• Novelty music
• Parody music

Country

Easy listening

Electronic

Folk

((Folk Rock music))

Hip hop

Jazz

Latin

Pop

R&B and soul

Rock

Exclusions

Genres or styles that are not contemporary or commercially marketed in substantial numbers have been excluded, as follows:

• Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes
• Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others
• Religious music: Gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns and the like
• Occasional music: Military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions
• 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. In North America and Western Europe, regional and national genres that are not from the Western world are sometimes classified as world music.

References

External links

• Genres of popular music - Interactive relationships diagram

Bibliography

• Borthwick, Stuart, & Moy, Ron (2004) Popular Music Genres: An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Fabbri, Franco (1982) A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications. In Popular Music Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52-81. Gteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd.
• Frith, Simon (1996) Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Holt, Fabian (2007) Genre in Popular Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Negus, Keith (1999) Music Genres and Corporate Cultures. London and New York: Routledge.