| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Music Unbound |
Devoted to the proposition that commercial/professional music is stuck in rigid concepts of style, genre and format, and needs to be freed of these categories, in order to flourish. |
| Wikipedia: Melodic Music |
Defines "melodic" genre as the vocal-oriented popular American music style that came after big band music but before rock and roll, as exemplified by singers like Perry Como and Margaret Whiting. |
| DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler |
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links. |
| The Lord Is Coming |
My songs are of the genre of Christian Techno, or more to the point, of a new genre which I call Techno Rock. I think they make for some unique, catchy little tunes that are ideal for the music background to a television commercial. |
| Hollywood Joe |
Multi-genre guitarist. Images and links. |
| The Wire: A to Z of Electro |
A guide to the genre by David Toop. |
| Backstreet Bauhaus |
Offers listings of fan fiction by genre. |
| The Metal Reference |
Articles, genre descriptions, and artist biographies. |
| All Music Guide: Rai |
Brief introduction to the genre, and links to popular Rai artists. |
| The Digital Collegian: Cuddlecore |
Article by Jason Cherkis regarding the musical genre. |
| All Music Guide: Ska |
Introduction to the genre, with representative artists, albums, and songs. |
| Through Different Eyes |
Swedish site with reviews of CDs from the progressive genre. Not updated since 1999. |
| Analry |
Norwegian pioneers of the genre since 1999. Contains biography, MP3s, and pictures. |
| All Music Guide: Dancehall |
Basic introduction to the genre, with links to the better known artists. |
| CanEHdian.com |
Canadian and popular album reviews, organized by artist and genre. |
| Yehoshua Lakner |
List of works by genre from the Music Centre Slovakia. |
| Clinchpoop |
Experimental, short-lived, genre-bending sounds from Central Indiana. |
| Arno Babadjanian |
Selection of MP3 recordings with link to details about the musicians and genre for each piece. |
| AMG: Vocal Music |
Overview of the genre, essay, key artists and albums, and recent releases. |
| All Music Guide: Dub |
General introduction to the genre, with links to artists and seminal albums. |
| Iwari |
E-label releasing free original underground music from the genre in MP3 format. |
| Long, Quentin |
Recording information, description of filk, and a list of some of the better known people involved in the genre. |
| Reserved Records |
Releases music of the genre from Chicago, USA. News, store, links, and contact. |
| Spark Records |
Home of Mythos, Geoff Gibbons. Award winning artists in the New Age genre. |
| Pickle Jar Recordings |
A Canadian and British company focused on the genre. Artists, beats, and contact. |
| Metamorphis Records |
Releases music of the genre with a distortion pedal from the core of Los Angeles, California, USA. |
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