| 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. |
| American Music Center: Musical Genres |
Links to articles and representative artists of styles such as pop, rock, blues, folk, classical, theater, jazz, and world music. |
| Duke University Library: Women in Music By Musical Genre |
Text lists and links to library resources such as books, periodicals and recordings on women performers and composers by musical genre. |
| 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. |
| Ectophiles Guide by Genre |
Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art,... |
| 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. |
| DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler |
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Indiana University School of Music: Genres |
Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Unusual categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music. |
| 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. |
| AllMusic Guide: Genres |
Musical style sort with detailed definitions from site maintained by musical journalists. Requires free registration. |
| Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art |
Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available... |
| InfoUSA: Musical Genres |
Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music. |
