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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.[1] Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.[2]

Music can be divided into genres in numerous ways, sometimes broadly and with polarity, such as for popular music, as opposed to art music or folk music; or, as another example, religious music and secular music. The artistic nature of music means that these classifications are often subjective and controversial, and some genres may overlap. As genres evolve, sometimes new music is lumped into existing categories or else a proliferation of derivative subgenres, fusion genres and "micro genres" starts to accrue.

which defines a list of genres

Billboard charts

Composition school

which defines a list of genres

List of Grammy Award categories

List of music genres and styles

List of radio formats

List of ID3v1 Genres

which enables the tagging of the genre of broadcasts within defined categories

Radio Data System

Holt, Fabian (2007). Genre in Popular Music. Chicago: .

University of Chicago Press

Negus, Keith (1999). Music Genres and Corporate Cultures. New York: . ISBN 978-0-415-17399-5.

Routledge

Starr, Larry; Waterman, Christopher Alan (2010). American popular music from minstrelsy to MP3. Oxford University Press.  978-0-19-539630-0.

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