Music Genre Research

There are hundreds of types of music genres, some of which are less known, and these include several types which wouldn't necessarily be known to everyone.


To start with, there is the less-known and less commercially marketed genres such as;

- Classical music, operatic, video game music, show music; ballroom; tango, pasodoble, cha cha cha etc, religious music; Gospel, gregorian chant, hymns etc, military music; marches, national anthems etc, regional music; traditional, folk, nursery rhymes, sea shanties and flamenco etc

African popular music;

Jujitsu, apala, benga, bikutsi, cape jazz, highlife, hiplife, kwela, makossa, morna, mbube and salegy.

Avent-Garde;
Experimental music and minimalistic.

Easy Listening;

Background music, lounge music and elevator music.

- The more recognisable music genres can be found below, which also include sub-genres which define the genres into more detail. Not all of the genres can be found below as there are too many to name. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to see the whole list of genres.

Blues;

Country blues, delta blues, electric blues and piano blues.

Country;

Alternative country, americana, bluegrass, country pop, country rock, honky tonk, nashville sound, rockabilly and western.

Electronica;

Breakdance, dance, ambient, dubstep, electroclash, eurodance, trance and uplifting

Modern Folk;

Indie folk, neofolk and progressive folk.


Hip-hop & Rap;

Alternative hip-hop, crunk, dirty rap/ Pornocore, G-Funk, grime, horrorcore, latin rap, rap metal, rap rock, rapcore and turntablism


Jazz;

Acid jazz, big band, calypso jazz, cool jazz, gypsy jazz, hard- bop, jazz-funk, scat, latin jazz, mainstream jazz, soul jazz, swing jazz, west coast jazz

Pop;

Arab pop, austropop, bubblegum pop, country pop, dance-pop, eurobeat, operatic pop, psychedelic pop, pop rap,teen pop, traditional pop music and vispop

Rhythem & Blues;

Contemporary R&B, funk, disco, boogie, soul, doowap, hip hop soul

Rock;

Alternative Rock, blues rock, wonky pop, grunge, indie-rock, electronic rock, folk rock, glam rock, hard rock, heavy metal, death metal, doom metal, grindcore, metalcore, nu metal, sludge metal, acid rock, screamo, rap rock

To find the genre of music I want to do , I am going to do some research into which is the favorite and most popular genre. I will do this by creating an online questionairre in which I will send to people to fill in and I will then collect the data and hopefully find a suitable song in which I can use for my music video that the audience will like and also a song I can get copyright acceptance.

-Music Genre Information-