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Music
Music genres and forms
Popular music
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Adult contemporary music
Radio format and music genre
Afrobeat
West African music genre, distinct from Afrobeats
Background music
Music in a film, video game or other medium that establishes mood
Boy band
Vocal group consisting of young males
Calypso music
Style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago
Children's music
Music mainly intended for children
Comedy music
Music genre
Cuban rumba
Music genre originating from Cuba
Dance music
Music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing
Dancehall
Genre of Jamaican popular music
Disco
Music genre
Easy listening
Popular music genre
Experimental music
Music genre
Film score
Original music written specifically to accompany a film, part of the film's soundtrack
Filmi
Music produced for India's mainstream motion picture industry
Funk
Music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s
Girl group
Pop music act featuring young women
Independent music
Music produced independently from commercial record labels
Indie pop
Genre of alternative pop music
Indie rock
Genre of rock music
J-pop
Japanese popular music genre
K-pop
South Korean popular music genre
Lo-fi music
Music aesthetic
Lounge music
Music genre
Muzak
Brand of background music
New wave music
1970s music genre
New-age music
Genre of music
Noise music
Music genre
Novelty song
Music genre; type of farcical or nonsensical singing or instrumentals
Outsider music
Music genre
Parody music
Composition generally of humorous or satirical intent in which turns of phrase or other features characteristic of another composer or type of composition are employed and made to appear ridiculous
Pop music
Genre of music
Popular music
Music genres distributed to large audiences and considered to have wide appeal
Progressive music
Type of music that emphasizes expansion of form and stylistic variety
Psychedelic music
Range of popular music styles and genres
Raï
Music genre originating in Algeria
Reggae
Music genre from Jamaica
Reggaeton
Music genre
Salsa music
Latin American dance music genre
Samba (software)
Free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol
Schlager music
Genre of popular music
Singer-songwriter
Musician who writes, composes, and sings their own material
SKA
Topics referred to by the same term
Soundtrack
Recorded music accompanying a production such as a film
Synth-pop
Music genre in which the synthesizer is a key instrument
Tango music
Style of music originating in South America
Tin Pan Alley
Collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City, US
Traditional pop
Western popular music that generally predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s
Video game music
Soundtrack or background music accompanying video games