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South.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadcore" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadcore">Sadcore</a> – an alternative name for <a href="/wiki/Slowcore" title="Slowcore">slowcore</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salsa_dura" title="Salsa dura">Salsa dura</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa music</a> that places more emphasis on the instrumental part of the music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">Salsa music</a> – a fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> genres from immigrants in New York City.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salsa_rom%C3%A1ntica" title="Salsa romántica">Salsa romántica</a> – a soft, romantic form of <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saltarello" title="Saltarello">Saltarello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samba" title="Samba">Samba</a> – a form of Brazilian <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> and dance characterized by its 2/4 time signature varied with the conscious use of a sung chorus to a batucada rhythm. Considered a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samba-can%C3%A7%C3%A3o" title="Samba-canção">Samba-canção</a> – traditional samba in slow <a href="/wiki/Tempo" title="Tempo">tempo</a> and with romantic lyrics. influenced by <a href="/wiki/Bolero" title="Bolero">bolero</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samba-reggae" class="mw-redirect" title="Samba-reggae">Samba-reggae</a> – a genre of <a href="/wiki/Samba" title="Samba">samba</a> with a choppy, <a href="/wiki/Reggae" title="Reggae">reggae</a>-like rhythm.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samba_rock" title="Samba rock">Samba rock</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Samba" title="Samba">samba</a> that contains <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock music</a> instrumentation, <a href="/wiki/Funk" title="Funk">funk</a> basslines, and <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul music</a> vocals.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sambai" title="Sambai">Sambai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sambass" title="Sambass">Sambass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sampledelia" title="Sampledelia">Sampledelia</a> – any music which heavily utilize <a href="/wiki/Sampling_(music)" title="Sampling (music)">sampling</a> (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic music</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop music">hip hop music</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sampling_(music)" title="Sampling (music)">Sampling</a> – reusing a portion of a sound recording in another recording; considered a foundation of <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop music">hip hop music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjo_(music)" title="Sanjo (music)">Sanjo</a> – <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> instrumental <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A2rb%C4%83" title="Sârbă">Sârbă</a> – Romanian folk dance style.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sardana" title="Sardana">Sardana</a> – Traditional Music of Catalonia.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sato_kagura" title="Sato kagura">Sato kagura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sawt_(music)" title="Sawt (music)">Sawt</a> – urban music from <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bahrain" title="Bahrain">Bahrain</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saya_(artform)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saya (artform)">Saya</a> – Bolivian music derived from African rhythms.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sc">Sc</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sc"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Schlager_music" title="Schlager music">Schlager music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schottische" title="Schottische">Schottische</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Baroque_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Baroque music">Scottish Baroque music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_folk_music" title="Scottish folk music">Scottish folk music</a> – <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk music</a> of the Scottish people; part of the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_music" title="Celtic music">Celtic music</a> umbrella.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scrumpy_and_Western" title="Scrumpy and Western">Scrumpy and Western</a> – folk music from <a href="/wiki/West_Country" title="West Country">West Country</a> of England.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Screamo" title="Screamo">Screamo</a> – an aggressive style of <a href="/wiki/Emo" title="Emo">emo</a> which employs screamed vocals.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_shanty" title="Sea shanty">Sea shanty</a> – English folk music of the sea.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean-n%C3%B3s_singing" title="Sean-nós singing">Sean-nós singing</a> – type of <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Irish_singing" title="Traditional Irish singing">traditional Irish singing</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seapunk" title="Seapunk">Seapunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Viennese_School" title="Second Viennese School">Second Viennese School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sega_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Sega music">Sega music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seggae" title="Seggae">Seggae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seis" title="Seis">Seis</a> – type of Puerto Rican dance music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semba" title="Semba">Semba</a> – traditional type of music from Angola.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sephardic_music" title="Sephardic music">Sephardic music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serialism" title="Serialism">Serialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%BAsica_sertaneja" class="mw-redirect" title="Música sertaneja">Sertanejo music</a> – folk music from the East of Brazil.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Set_dance" class="mw-redirect" title="Set dance">Set dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevdalinka" title="Sevdalinka">Sevdalinka</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnian</a> urban popular music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevillana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sevillana">Sevillana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shabda" title="Shabda">Shabda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shalakho" title="Shalakho">Shalakho</a> – Armenian folk dance.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shan%27ge" title="Shan'ge">Shan'ge</a> – <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Hakka_people" title="Hakka people">Hakka</a> mountain songs.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shibuya-kei" title="Shibuya-kei">Shibuya-kei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shidaiqu" title="Shidaiqu">Shidaiqu</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>-based form of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shima-uta" title="Shima-uta">Shima-uta</a> – folk songs from the <a href="/wiki/Amami_Islands" title="Amami Islands">Amami Islands</a>, Japan.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shock_rock" title="Shock rock">Shock rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoegaze" title="Shoegaze">Shoegaze</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Neo-psychedelia" title="Neo-psychedelia">Neo-psychedelia</a> characterized by an ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion and effects, feedback, and overwhelming volume.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dka_(music)" title="Shōka (music)">Shōka</a> – <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> songs written during the <a href="/wiki/Meiji_Restoration" title="Meiji Restoration">Meiji Restoration</a> to bring Western music to Japanese schools.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shomyo" class="mw-redirect" title="Shomyo">Shomyo</a> – <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a> <a href="/wiki/Chanting" class="mw-redirect" title="Chanting">chanting</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shota_(dance)" title="Shota (dance)">Shota</a> – Albanian folk dance.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Show_tune" title="Show tune">Show tune</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Si">Si</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Si"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Siguiriyas" title="Siguiriyas">Siguiriyas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silat" title="Silat">Silat</a> – <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysian</a> mixture of music, dance and martial arts.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinawi" title="Sinawi">Sinawi</a> – <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> <a href="/wiki/Religious_music" title="Religious music">religious music</a> meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singer-songwriter" title="Singer-songwriter">Singer-songwriter</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ska" title="Ska">Ska</a> – a Jamaican music genre that combined elements of Caribbean <a href="/wiki/Mento" title="Mento">mento</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calypso_music" title="Calypso music">calypso music</a> with American <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a>; characterized by a <a href="/wiki/Walking_bass" class="mw-redirect" title="Walking bass">walking bass</a> line accented with rhythms on the off beat.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ska_punk" title="Ska punk">Ska punk</a> – fusion of punk rock and ska.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skald" title="Skald">Skald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skate_punk" title="Skate punk">Skate punk</a> – punk rock subgenre that features elements of hardcore punk, melodic hardcore and pop punk. Popular amongst skaters, surfers or skiers.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skweee" title="Skweee">Skweee</a> – a musical style, with origin in Sweden and Finland.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skiffle" title="Skiffle">Skiffle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skyladiko" class="mw-redirect" title="Skyladiko">Skyladiko</a> – pop folk music style of Greece.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skullstep" class="mw-redirect" title="Skullstep">Skullstep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slack-key_guitar" title="Slack-key guitar">Slack-key guitar</a> (kihoalu) – <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaiian</a> form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sl%C3%A4ngpolska" title="Slängpolska">Slängpolska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slide_(tune_type)" title="Slide (tune type)">Slide music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slowcore" title="Slowcore">Slowcore</a> – a fusion of <a href="/wiki/Indie_rock" title="Indie rock">indie rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sadcore" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadcore">sadcore</a>. As its name applies, slowcore tends to deliver the bleak lyrics of sadcore with downbeat melodies and slow tempo.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sludge_metal" title="Sludge metal">Sludge metal</a> – a subgenre of heavy metal with slow-tuned tempos, abrasive distortion and harsh vocals. Basically a fusion of doom metal and hardcore punk.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smooth_jazz" title="Smooth jazz">Smooth jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smooth_soul" title="Smooth soul">Smooth soul</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul music</a> characterized by melodic hooks, <a href="/wiki/Funk" title="Funk">funk</a> influence (specifically its beat) and smooth production.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="So">So</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: So"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soca_music" title="Soca music">Soca music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soft_rock" title="Soft rock">Soft rock</a> – an offshoot of <a href="/wiki/Pop_rock" title="Pop rock">pop rock</a> that relies on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Son-bat%C3%A1" class="mw-redirect" title="Son-batá">Son-batá</a> (batá rock music)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Son_cubano" title="Son cubano">Son cubano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Son_montuno" title="Son montuno">Son montuno</a> – <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuban</a> folk music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonata_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonata (music)">Sonata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Songo_music" title="Songo music">Songo music</a> – a mixture of <a href="/wiki/Changu%C3%AD" class="mw-redirect" title="Changuí">changuí</a> and <a href="/wiki/Son_montuno" title="Son montuno">son montuno</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Songo-salsa" title="Songo-salsa">Songo-salsa</a> – a mixture of <a href="/wiki/Songo_music" title="Songo music">songo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop music">hip hop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salsa_music" title="Salsa music">salsa</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophisti-pop" title="Sophisti-pop">Sophisti-pop</a> – British <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> made in the 1980s that incorporated elements of <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul music</a> (specifically their usage of the brass section); known for its extensive use of the synthesizer.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soukous" title="Soukous">Soukous</a> – various ensemble sizes may be used, with upwards of three guitars sometimes employed simultaneously. Prominent horn and vocal arrangements are occasionally incorporated as well.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soul_blues" title="Soul blues">Soul blues</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Electric_blues" title="Electric blues">electric blues</a> that incorporates elements of <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul music</a>, particularly its tense and raw vocals.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soul_jazz" title="Soul jazz">Soul jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">Soul music</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular</a> <a href="/wiki/African-American_music" title="African-American music">African-American music</a> genre that combines <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a> (as in the <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> style); known for its tense and raw vocals which are backed by a brass section.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sound_poetry" title="Sound poetry">Sound poetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soundtrack" title="Soundtrack">Soundtrack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Gospel" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Gospel">Southern Gospel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Gothic#Music" title="Southern Gothic">Southern Gothic music</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Alternative_country" title="Alternative country">alternative country</a> lyrically inspired by the Southern Gothic literary genre.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Harmony" title="Southern Harmony">Southern Harmony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern hip hop">Southern hip hop</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop music">hip hop music</a> originating from the American South (especially Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami). The most popular form of hip hop as of late.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_metal" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern metal">Southern metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_rock" title="Southern rock">Southern rock</a> – <a href="/wiki/Roots_rock" title="Roots rock">roots rock</a> originating from the American South that usually contains long <a href="/wiki/Jam_sessions" class="mw-redirect" title="Jam sessions">jam sessions</a> centered on the <a href="/wiki/Boogie" title="Boogie">boogie</a> rhythm.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_soul" title="Southern soul">Southern soul</a> – <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul music</a> originating from the American South that usually has a stronger <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel</a> influence and overall deeper sound than other soul.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sovietwave" title="Sovietwave">Sovietwave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_age_pop" title="Space age pop">Space age pop</a> – a subgenre of <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">easy listening</a> inspired by and associated with the space age of the 1950s and 1960s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_disco" class="mw-redirect" title="Space disco">Space disco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_music" title="Space music">Space music</a> – a subgenre of <a href="/wiki/New-age_music" title="New-age music">new-age music</a> meant to evoke a feeling of contemplative spaciousness.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_rock" title="Space rock">Space rock</a> – an offshoot of <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock">psychedelic rock</a> characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental textures that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectralism" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectralism">Spectralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speedcore" title="Speedcore">Speedcore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speed_metal" title="Speed metal">Speed metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiritual_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual (music)">Spirituals</a> – a genre of <a href="/wiki/African-American_music" title="African-American music">African-American</a> <a href="/wiki/Christian_music" title="Christian music">Christian music</a> linked with the hardships of slavery; serves the basics of both <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gospel_music" title="Gospel music">gospel music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spoken_word" title="Spoken word">Spoken word</a> – any audio that features vocals that is neither <a href="/wiki/Singing" title="Singing">singing</a> nor <a href="/wiki/Rapping" title="Rapping">rapping</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spouge" title="Spouge">Spouge</a> – <a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbadian</a> <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprechgesang" title="Sprechgesang">Sprechgesang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Square_dance" title="Square dance">Square dance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="St">St</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: St"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St._Louis_blues_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis blues (music)">St. Louis blues</a> – a form of <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> developed in St. Louis that tends to be more piano-based than others.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steelband" class="mw-redirect" title="Steelband">Steelband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoner_metal" class="mw-redirect" title="Stoner metal">Stoner metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stoner_rock" title="Stoner rock">Stoner rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straight_edge" title="Straight edge">Straight edge music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strathspey_(dance)" title="Strathspey (dance)">Strathspey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stride_(music)" title="Stride (music)">Stride</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/String_(Thai_pop)" class="mw-redirect" title="String (Thai pop)">String music</a> – <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Thailand" title="Music of Thailand">Thai</a> <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/String_quartet" title="String quartet">String quartet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sufi_music" title="Sufi music">Sufi music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suite_(music)" title="Suite (music)">Suite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunshine_pop" title="Sunshine pop">Sunshine pop</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> developed in California that combined the nostalgic moods of <a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">easy listening</a> with an appreciation for the beauty of the world.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suomirock" class="mw-redirect" title="Suomirock">Suomirock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Eurobeat" title="Super Eurobeat">Super Eurobeat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surf_music" title="Surf music">Surf music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swamp_blues" title="Swamp blues">Swamp blues</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> developed in Baton Rouge that is heavily influenced by <a href="/wiki/Zydeco" title="Zydeco">Zydeco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cajun_music" title="Cajun music">Cajun music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swamp_pop" title="Swamp pop">Swamp pop</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> developed by Cajun teenagers in the 1950s that combines <a href="/wiki/Cajun_music" title="Cajun music">Cajun music</a> with <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues" title="Rhythm and blues">rhythm and blues</a> (specifically <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_rhythm_and_blues" title="New Orleans rhythm and blues">New Orleans rhythm and blues</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swamp_rock" title="Swamp rock">Swamp rock</a> – a fusion of <a href="/wiki/Rockabilly" title="Rockabilly">rockabilly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swamp_blues" title="Swamp blues">swamp blues</a>, <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Funk" title="Funk">funk</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swing_(jazz_performance_style)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing (jazz performance style)">Swing</a> – 1. a general "feel" of the rhythm within <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> musicians; 2. a specific rhythm pattern that involves alternately lengthening and shortening the pulse-divisions in a rhythm.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">Swing music</a> – a danceable form of <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> that places heavy emphasis on both definitions of <a href="/wiki/Swing_(jazz_performance_style)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing (jazz performance style)">swing</a>, which is what the form is named after.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sy">Sy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sygyt" class="mw-redirect" title="Sygyt">Sygyt</a> – type of <a href="/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing#Khoomei" title="Tuvan throat singing">xoomii</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tuva_throat_singing" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuva throat singing">Tuva throat singing</a>), likened to the sound of <a href="/wiki/Whistling" title="Whistling">whistling</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphonic_black_metal" title="Symphonic black metal">Symphonic black metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphonic_metal" title="Symphonic metal">Symphonic metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphonic_poem" title="Symphonic poem">Symphonic poem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphonic_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Symphonic rock">Symphonic rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symphony" title="Symphony">Symphony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synth-pop" title="Synth-pop">Synth-pop</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/New_wave_music" title="New wave music">new wave music</a> and a form of <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic music</a> that centers on the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. Originally an intentionally cold-sounding genre, later synth-pop artists incorporated elements of <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> into it, resulting in a more upbeat sound.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punk_rock#Other_fusions_and_directions" title="Punk rock">Synth-punk</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a> that uses synthesizers rather than guitars. Sometimes considered a form of <a href="/wiki/Electronic_rock" title="Electronic rock">electronic rock</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synthwave" title="Synthwave">Synthwave</a> – a style of music that takes most of its inspiration from synth music and pop culture from the 1980s. Musically, synthwave is often instrumental and has a "futuristic" theme, with large, throbbing, retro synths.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_chant" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian chant">Syrian chant</a> – <a href="/wiki/Chant" title="Chant">chant</a> used in Syriac Christianity.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taarab" title="Taarab">Taarab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_tu" class="mw-redirect" title="Tai tu">Tai tu</a> – <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnamese</a> <a href="/wiki/Chamber_music" title="Chamber music">chamber music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_opera" title="Taiwanese opera">Taiwanese opera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hokkien_pop" title="Hokkien pop">Taiwanese pop</a> – early <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> influenced by <a href="/wiki/Enka" title="Enka">enka</a> and popular with older listeners.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tala_(music)" title="Tala (music)">Tala</a> – a rhythmic pattern in <a href="/wiki/Indian_classical_music" title="Indian classical music">Indian classical music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talempong" title="Talempong">Talempong</a> – a distinct <a href="/wiki/Minangkabau_people" title="Minangkabau people">Minangkabau</a> <a href="/wiki/Gamelan" title="Gamelan">gamelan</a> music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talking_blues" title="Talking blues">Talking blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamborito" title="Tamborito">Tamborito</a> – folk music style from Panama.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tambu_(musical_genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tambu (musical genre)">Tambu</a> – music genre and dance form, found in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamburitza" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamburitza">Tamburitza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Christian_keerthanai" title="Tamil Christian keerthanai">Tamil Christian keerthanai</a> – Christian devotional lyrics in Tamil.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1nch%C3%A1z" title="Táncház">Táncház</a> – Hungarian dance music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tango_music" title="Tango music">Tango music</a> – Argentine and Uruguayan popular music that spread internationally in the 1920s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanguk" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanguk">Tanguk</a> – a form of <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean</a> court music that includes elements of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese music">Chinese music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tappa" title="Tappa">Tappa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taqwacore" title="Taqwacore">Taqwacore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarana" title="Tarana">Tarana</a> – style of music from northern <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarantella" title="Tarantella">Tarantella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarantas" title="Tarantas">Tarantas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tech_house" title="Tech house">Tech house</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tech_trance" title="Tech trance">Tech trance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technical_death_metal" title="Technical death metal">Technical death metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technical_metal" class="mw-redirect" title="Technical metal">Technical metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno" title="Techno">Techno</a> – a style that emerged from Detroit, Michigan known for its repetitive rhythm.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Technoid">Technoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techstep" title="Techstep">Techstep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techtonik" class="mw-redirect" title="Techtonik">Techtonik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tecno_brega" title="Tecno brega">Tecno brega</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teen_pop" title="Teen pop">Teen pop</a> – a subgenre of pop music targeted towards pre-teen and teenage listeners.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tejano_music" title="Tejano music">Tejano music</a> or "Tex-Mex" – an American form of <a href="/wiki/Norte%C3%B1o_(music)" title="Norteño (music)">Norteño</a> originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas; considered a part of <a href="/wiki/American_folk_music" title="American folk music">American folk music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Stream" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Stream">Third Stream</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a> fusion style.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tembang_sunda" class="mw-redirect" title="Tembang sunda">Tembang sunda</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sundanese_people" title="Sundanese people">Sundanese</a> sung free verse poetry.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_blues" title="Texas blues">Texas blues</a> – a form of <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a> developed in Texas that originally had <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing</a> influences, but later became a form of <a href="/wiki/Blues_rock" title="Blues rock">blues rock</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_music" title="Theatre music">Theatre music</a> – music made for performance in theatres.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theme_music" title="Theme music">Theme music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thillana" class="mw-redirect" title="Thillana">Thillana</a> – form of <a href="/wiki/Vocal_music" title="Vocal music">vocal music</a> from <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a> using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_wave_ska" class="mw-redirect" title="Third wave ska">Third wave ska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form" title="Thirty-two-bar form">Thirty-two-bar form</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrashcore" title="Thrashcore">Thrashcore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrash_metal" title="Thrash metal">Thrash metal</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Extreme_metal" title="Extreme metal">extreme metal</a> known for its fast tempos, screaming vocals, extended guitar solos and aggressive lyrics.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thumri" title="Thumri">Thumri</a> – a type of popular <a href="/wiki/Hindustani_classical_music" title="Hindustani classical music">Hindustani</a> <a href="/wiki/Vocal_music" title="Vocal music">vocal music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_pop" class="mw-redirect" title="Tibetan pop">Tibetan pop</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tientos" class="mw-redirect" title="Tientos">Tientos</a> – style of organ music from the 15th century in Spain.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timbila" class="mw-redirect" title="Timbila">Timbila</a> – form of folk music in <a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tin_Pan_Alley" title="Tin Pan Alley">Tin Pan Alley</a> – a name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century; one of the major sources for <a href="/wiki/Traditional_pop" title="Traditional pop">traditional pop</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinku" title="Tinku">Tinku</a> – traditional music and dance from Potosi <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toeshey" class="mw-redirect" title="Toeshey">Toeshey</a> – <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibetan</a> <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Togaku" class="mw-redirect" title="Togaku">Togaku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tondero" title="Tondero">Tondero</a> – folk music style from Peru.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%27ong_guitar" title="T'ong guitar">T'ong guitar</a> – acoustic guitar pop music of <a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_bluegrass" title="Traditional bluegrass">Traditional bluegrass</a> – modern <a href="/wiki/Bluegrass_music" title="Bluegrass music">bluegrass music</a> that emphasizes its original elements.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Nordic_dance_music" title="Traditional Nordic dance music">Traditional Nordic dance music</a> – upbeat style of Nordic folk.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_pop" title="Traditional pop">Traditional pop</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> that predates the existence of <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a>; usually has a <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing</a> influence due to that genre's prominence at that time. Later classified as a form of <a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">easy listening</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trallalero" title="Trallalero">Trallalero</a> – <a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoese</a> urban songs.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trance_music" title="Trance music">Trance music</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Electronic_dance_music" title="Electronic dance music">electronic dance music</a> characterized by a tempo lying between 110 and 150 bpm (BPM), repeating melodic phrases, and a musical form that distinctly builds tension and elements throughout a track often culminating in 1 to 2 "peaks" or "drops".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trap_music_(EDM)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trap music (EDM)">Trap music (EDM)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trap_music_(hip_hop)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trap music (hip hop)">Trap music (hip hop)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trival" class="mw-redirect" title="Trival">Trival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribal_house" title="Tribal house">Tribal house</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trikitixa" class="mw-redirect" title="Trikitixa">Trikitixa</a> – <a href="/wiki/Basque_music" title="Basque music">Basque</a> <a href="/wiki/Accordion" title="Accordion">accordion</a> music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trip_hop" title="Trip hop">Trip hop</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop music">hip hop</a>-influenced genre of <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic music</a> that is known for its melancholy sound and a bass-heavy drumbeat. Sometimes treated as a synonym for <a href="/wiki/Downtempo" title="Downtempo">downtempo</a>, it differs from that genre by having a more "earthy" sound.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropicalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropicalia">Tropicalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropical_music" title="Tropical music">Tropical music</a> – <a href="/wiki/Latin_music" title="Latin music">Latin music</a> originating from the Caribbean.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropical_house" title="Tropical house">Tropical house</a> – a mix of reggae and house sounds originated in the late 2000s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropipop" title="Tropipop">Tropipop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truck-driving_country" title="Truck-driving country">Truck-driving country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tumba_(music_genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tumba (music genre)">Tumba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turbo-folk" title="Turbo-folk">Turbo-folk</a> – aggressive form of modernized Serbian music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turntablism" title="Turntablism">Turntablism</a> – music produced by flipping a record to produce a rhythm.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuvan_throat-singing" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuvan throat-singing">Tuvan throat-singing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twee_pop" title="Twee pop">Twee pop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twelve-bar_blues" title="Twelve-bar blues">Twelve-bar blues</a> – a distinctive form predominantly based on the I-IV-V chords of a key.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twist_(dance)" title="Twist (dance)">Twist</a> (also a dance style, early 1960s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two-tone_(music_genre)" title="Two-tone (music genre)">Two-tone</a> (usually spelled 2 Tone) – a style of <a href="/wiki/Ska" title="Ska">ska</a> that incorporates elements of <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_wave_music" title="New wave music">new wave music</a>, particularly their high-paced tempo; produced by and named after the <a href="/wiki/2_Tone_Records" title="2 Tone Records">record label of the same name</a>, most two-tone music tends to have lyrics that promotes racial harmony.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/UK_bass" title="UK bass">UK bass</a> – club music that emerged in the United Kingdom during the mid-2000s under the influence of genres such as house, grime, dubstep, UK garage, R&B, and wonky.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_garage" title="UK garage">UK garage</a> – a style of <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic music</a> and an offshoot of <a href="/wiki/Garage_house" title="Garage house">garage house</a> that usually features a distinctive 4/4 percussive rhythm with chopped up vocal samples.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_hardcore" class="mw-redirect" title="UK hardcore">UK hardcore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UK_hard_house" title="UK hard house">UK hard house</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unblack_metal" title="Unblack metal">Unblack metal</a> – black metal with lyrics that praise Christianity rather than criticizing it as opposed to black metal, which traditionally focuses on Satanism or anti-Christianity.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underground_music" title="Underground music">Underground music</a> – music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uplifting_trance" title="Uplifting trance">Uplifting trance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_Cowboy" title="Urban Cowboy">Urban Cowboy</a> – a soft, mellow style of music that uses harmonious vocals with smooth synth sounds or rarely no music at all.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_Pasifika" title="Urban Pasifika">Urban Pasifika</a> – a blend of hip-hop, reggae, and traditional Polynesian musical styles.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vallenato" title="Vallenato">Vallenato</a> – accordion-based Colombian folk music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaporwave" title="Vaporwave">Vaporwave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">Vaudeville</a> – a form of theatre featuring unrelated acts, including performers of <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a>, that became a popular form of entertainment in the United States until the rise of film.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verbunkos" title="Verbunkos">Verbunkos</a> – Hungarian dance music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verismo" title="Verismo">Verismo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_game_music" title="Video game music">Video game music</a> – melodic music as defined by its media.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viking_metal" title="Viking metal">Viking metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villanella" title="Villanella">Villanella</a> – 16th century <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Neapolitan</a> songs.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virelais" class="mw-redirect" title="Virelais">Virelais</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visual_kei" title="Visual kei">Visual kei</a> – Japanese music scene, started around the 1980s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visual_music" title="Visual music">Visual music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vocal_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Vocal house">Vocal house</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vocal_jazz" title="Vocal jazz">Vocal jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vocal_music" title="Vocal music">Vocal music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vocaloid" title="Vocaloid">Vocaloid</a> – a singing/voice -synthesis- (or emulation) software, which as it implies does not just consist in sound banks but voice synthesis algorithms that can be used with different kinds of voice.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volksmusik" class="mw-redirect" title="Volksmusik">Volksmusik</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Waila" class="mw-redirect" title="Waila">Waila</a> (chicken scratch) – a <a href="/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham" class="mw-redirect" title="Tohono O'odham">Tohono O'odham</a> fusion of <a href="/wiki/Polka" title="Polka">polka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norte%C3%B1o_(music)" title="Norteño (music)">norteño</a> and <a href="/wiki/Native_American_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American music">Native American music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassline#Walking_bass" title="Bassline">Walking bass</a> – a style of bass accompaniment which creates a feeling of regular quarter note movement, akin to the regular alternation of feet while walking.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wall_of_Sound" title="Wall of Sound">Wall of Sound</a> – a music production technique developed by <a href="/wiki/Phil_Spector" title="Phil Spector">Phil Spector</a> in which a large number of musicians (including an orchestra) perform the same parts in unison and the resulting sound is re-recorded in an echo chamber. Used mostly by Spector himself for artists signed to his <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> <a href="/wiki/Philles_Records" title="Philles Records">label</a>, along with some <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> acts inspired by this style of production (most notably <a href="/wiki/Brian_Wilson" title="Brian Wilson">Brian Wilson</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Beach_Boys" title="The Beach Boys">the Beach Boys</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waltz" title="Waltz">Waltz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wangga" title="Wangga">Wangga</a> – <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_Australian" class="mw-redirect" title="Aboriginal Australian">Aboriginal Australian</a> music genre.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warabe_uta" title="Warabe uta">Warabe uta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wassoulou_music" title="Wassoulou music">Wassoulou music</a> – performed mostly by women. Some recurring themes in the lyrics are childbearing, fertility, and polygamy. Instrumentation includes soku, djembe drum, kamalen n'goni, karinyan and bolon.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_song" title="War song">War song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waulking_song" title="Waulking song">Waulking song</a> – Scottish folk songs, typically sung in Gaelic. These songs were often sung by women as they worked to soften woven tweed by hitting it against a solid surface, which would give the song rhythm.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Were_music" title="Were music">Were music</a> – indigenous Yoruba music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_blues" title="West Coast blues">West Coast blues</a> – a form of <a href="/wiki/Jump_blues" title="Jump blues">jump blues</a> developed in California by <a href="/wiki/Texas_blues" title="Texas blues">Texas blues</a> musicians who moved there.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_hip_hop" class="mw-redirect" title="West Coast hip hop">West Coast hip hop</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip hop music">hip hop music</a> originating from the western United States (largely Los Angeles); the first form of hip hop not to originate from the East Coast.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_jazz" title="West Coast jazz">West Coast jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_blues" class="mw-redirect" title="Western blues">Western blues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_swing" title="Western swing">Western swing</a> – an up-tempo danceable form of <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country music</a> that is heavily influenced by <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Witch_house_(music_genre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Witch house (music genre)">Witch house</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wizard_rock" title="Wizard rock">Wizard rock</a> – <a href="/wiki/Geek_rock" title="Geek rock">geek rock</a> that's specifically about <i>Harry Potter.</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_music" title="Women's music">Women's music</a> or womyn's music, wimmin's music – 1970s lesbian/feminist music.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wong_shadow" title="Wong shadow">Wong shadow</a> – 1960s <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Thailand" title="Music of Thailand">Thai</a> <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wonky_(genre)" title="Wonky (genre)">Wonky</a> – music with shaky off-kilter beats that came out of the 90s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Work_song" title="Work song">Work song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worldbeat" title="Worldbeat">Worldbeat</a> – a music genre that combines <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop music</a> with music that is usually labeled as <a href="/wiki/World_music" title="World music">world music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_music" title="World music">World music</a> – music originating outside the Western world (although the term has occasionally been applied to various forms of Western <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk music</a>). This may also include <a href="/wiki/Latin_music" title="Latin music">Latin music</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_music_genres" title="List of Caribbean music genres">music from the Caribbean</a>, and regional forms of Western <a href="/wiki/Popular_music" title="Popular music">popular music</a> that are performed in non-Western languages but are otherwise nearly indistinguishable in style.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xenomania" title="Xenomania">Xenomania</a> – a music style created by Brian Higgins that has usually a strange and crazy feel to it.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xoomii" class="mw-redirect" title="Xoomii">Xoomii</a> – a style of music which is produced by rolling the throat in ways to create an instrument-like sound to it.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xote" title="Xote">Xote</a> – is a Brazilian music genre and dance for pairs or groups of four.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xhosa_music" title="Xhosa music">Xhosa music</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Xylophonecore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xylophonecore (page does not exist)">Xylophonecore</a> – xylophone music mixed with electronic.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yass_(music)" title="Yass (music)">Yass</a> – a style of Polish music from the 1980s and 1990s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yayue" title="Yayue">Yayue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y%C3%A9-y%C3%A9" title="Yé-yé">Yé-yé</a> – French music that emerged from the 60s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yo-pop" title="Yo-pop">Yo-pop</a> – a style of music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yodeling" title="Yodeling">Yodeling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Youth_crew" title="Youth crew">Youth crew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yukar" title="Yukar">Yukar</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_styles_of_music:_S%E2%80%93Z&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zajal" title="Zajal">Zajal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zamacueca" title="Zamacueca">Zamacueca</a> – Peruvian folk dance of African origins and precursor of Zamba.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zamba_(artform)" title="Zamba (artform)">Zamba</a> – Argentinian folk dance and music genre.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zamrock" title="Zamrock">Zamrock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zapin" title="Zapin">Zapin</a> – derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zarzuela" title="Zarzuela">Zarzuela</a> – a form of <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spanish</a> <a href="/wiki/Operetta" title="Operetta">operetta</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magma_(band)#Zeuhl" title="Magma (band)">Zeuhl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zeibekiko" title="Zeibekiko">Zeibekiko</a> – Greek Dance 9/8 Rytmus.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zef" title="Zef">Zef</a> – South African music based on both rap and rave.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziglibithy" title="Ziglibithy">Ziglibithy</a> – music from the Côte d'Ivoire made by people like Ernesto Djedje.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Znamenny_chant" title="Znamenny chant">Znamenny chant</a> – a unison, melismatic <a href="/wiki/Chant" title="Chant">chant</a> used in the Russian Orthodox Church.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zouglou" title="Zouglou">Zouglou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zouk_(musical_movement)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zouk (musical movement)">Zouk</a> – <a href="/wiki/French_Caribbean" class="mw-redirect" title="French Caribbean">French Caribbean</a> (<a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe" title="Guadeloupe">Guadeloupean</a>) <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance music</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zouk_Love" class="mw-redirect" title="Zouk Love">Zouk Love</a> – performed at a slower tempo than traditional zouk music (between 95 and 100 bpm) and is smoother, more sentimental and quieter overall.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zulu_music" title="Zulu music">Zulu music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zydeco" title="Zydeco">Zydeco</a> – a style of music that tends to blend with other largely danceable genres and is centered on the accordion and the washboard.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Previous_sections">Previous 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genres">Industrial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno#Developments" title="Techno">Techno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_trance_genres" title="List of trance genres">Trance</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_jazz_genres" title="List of jazz genres">Jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_popular_music_genres" class="mw-redirect" title="List of popular music genres">Popular</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_country_genres" title="List of country genres">Country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_hip_hop_genres" class="mw-redirect" title="List of hip hop genres">Hip hop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reggae_genres" title="Reggae genres">Reggae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rock_genres" title="List of rock genres">Rock</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres" title="Heavy metal genres">Heavy metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punk_rock_subgenres" title="Punk rock subgenres">Punk rock</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_hardcore_punk_subgenres" title="List of 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