Open directory - Styles - Music

By Decade (704)

Regional and Ethnic@ (1,681)

African@ (88)
Alternative Rock@ (486)
Big Band@ (161)
Blues@ (1,060)
Broadway@ (1,333)
Cajun and Zydeco@ (71)
Celtic@ (353)
Choral@ (1,089)
Christian@ (2,746)
Classical@ (2,047)
Comedy@ (97)
Country@ (1,852)
Dance@ (712)
Disco@ (85)
Early Music@ (317)
Easy Listening@ (21)
Electronic@ (33)
Electronica@ (187)
Experimental@ (371)
Folk@ (713)
Gamelan@ (26)
Gospel@ (13)
Heavy Metal@ (1,740)
Hip Hop@ (540)
House@ (95)
Humor and Parody@ (29)
Jazz@ (1,531)

Klezmer@ (45)
Latin@ (277)
Lounge@ (26)
Marching@ (1,097)
Middle Eastern@ (109)
Military Bands and Music@ (27)
Native American@ (60)
Opera@ (331)
Parody and Humor@ (29)
Polka@ (68)
Pop@ (142)
Progressive Rock@ (519)
Punk@ (1,284)
Rap@ (540)
Reggae@ (187)
Religious@ (3)
Rhythm and Blues@ (167)
Rock@ (5,250)
Show Tunes@ (1,333)
Ska@ (97)
Swing@ (214)
Techno@ (119)
Traditional Pop@ (13)
Vocal@ (50)
Worldbeat@ (34)
Zydeco@ (25)

All Music Guide - Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews.

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.

Ectophiles Guide by Genre - Self-described

Indiana University School of Music: Genres - Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral 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.

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. [PDF]

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.