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List of popular music genres
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Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. like Western classical music or Indian classical music, and traditional or "folk" music. A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. This is a list of the commercially relevant modern popular music genres, with applicable styles classified using AllMusic genre categorization. Exclusions Genres or styles that are not contemporary or commercially marketed in substantial numbers have been excluded from this list, as follows: *Music written for the score of a play, musicals, or similar: Filmi, incidental music, video game music, music hall songs and showtunes *Ballroom dance music: pasodoble, cha cha cha and others *Religious music: Gospel music, gregorian chant, spirituals, hymns and similar *Occasional music: military music, marches, national anthems and related compositions *Regional and national music with no significant commercial impact abroad, except when it is a version of an international genre, such as: traditional music, oral traditions, sea shanties, work songs, nursery rhymes, Arabesque and indigenous music. In North America and Western Europe, regional and national genres that are not from the Western world are sometimes classified as world music. By region African Asian *Fijiri *Khaliji *Liwa *Sawt East Asian South Asian Southeast Asian Avant-garde *Experimental *Noise **Harsh Noise **Harsh noise wall *Outsider music *Lo-fi *Musique concrète *Electroacoustic Blues Caribbean and Caribbean-influenced Comedy *Comedy *Comedy hip hop *Comedy rock *Novelty *Parody Country Easy listening Electronic House Flamenco Folk Hip hop Jazz Latin Pop R&B and soul Rock Heavy metal Punk rock 
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