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All Music Guide: Music Styles
Brief articles by professional music journalists describing popular music styles as divided into subgenres organized under rock and roll, blues, country, jazz, and roots.
http://allmusic.com/mus_Styles.html
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre
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.
http://www.amc.net/links/genres.html
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.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/mugenre.html
InfoUSA: Musical Genres
Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/genres.htm
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.
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php
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, beautiful and fierce, and traditional.
http://ectoguide.org/genre
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.
http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11690/latest/
DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.
http://datadragon.com/education/genres/
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.
http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/index.cgi?command=Display_Genre
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.
http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html
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.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html
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