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Links to articles and representative artists of styles such as pop, rock, blues, folk, classical, theater, jazz, and world music.
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The American Music Center  Links to musical organizations Can't find what you're looking for? Need additional help? Enter your search term(s) and select one of the web's major search engines! Search for: Search engine: Yahoo Altavista Excite Google Lycos Magellan Webcrawler...
http://www.amc.net/links/genres.html

Text lists and links to library resources such as books, periodicals and recordings on women performers and composers by musical genre.
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Women in Music: Sources By Musical Genre  Women in Music A Pathfinder for Sources in Duke University Libraries SOURCES BY MUSICAL GENRE [BLUES/ SOUL/ RHYTHM BLUES CLASSICAL COUNTRY FOLK GOSPEL JAZZ ROCK/ POP/ RAP WOMEN'S MUSIC WORLD MUSIC Table of Contents Introduction Music Library General Sources Sources...
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/mugenre.html

Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music.
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Links to Resources by Musical Genres Arts and Culture: InfoUSA  About|Site Map USA Facts GovernmentPolitics EconomyTrade LawsTreaties Media ScienceTechnology Education |SocietyValues ArtsCulture GeographyTravel TD colspan 3 bgcolor 000066 height 2 alig...
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/genres.htm

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.
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Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles  Music SearchFTP Search Jump To Front PageHomeAccountRhapsodyUsersGroupsAll GenresSatellite--Departments--RockElectronicaMetalPunkBluesFolkJazzHip-HopCountrySoftware Hardware Help InfoRecord LabelsBackstageFeature ArchiveBulletin BoardmemberloginModern Rocksee Rock departmentAlternative RockAdult AlternativeBrit PopGrungeRock en EspanolExperimental RockIndie RockChamber PopIndie FolkIndie GarageIndie PopJangle PopLo FiNew PsychedeliaNoise RockPost RockSpace RockJam RockNew WaveGoth RockSynth PopPost PunkPower PopRocksee...
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php

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.
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Ectophiles Guide by Genre  Please select a genre below or to the right to see all artists in that genre. The Ectophiles Goddesses The epitomes of ecto: Happy Rhodes, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Veda Hille, Sarah McLachlan, Jane Siberry Alternative Alternarock: Belly, Caterwaul, Liz...
http://ectoguide.org/genre

Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples.
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Music Classification by Genre: System Performance  Our system successfully determined the genre of the vast majority of the test songs. Not only did the system choose a genre, it quantified its output with a level of sureness. Figure 1: Performance of the neural network improved with...
http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11690/latest/

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.
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Christian Music Place Artists Database: Genre Listing  Christian music artist directory. If you love Christian music and are looking for information about a Christian artist, you've come to the right place....
http://www.christianmusic.org/cm.../index.cgi?command=Display_Genre

Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country.
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Music Web Hunter Styles Genres by Ken Davies  A guide to the major music resources and search engines on the internet Home Search Engines Music Guides Style Genre Guides Stars Links News Zines Music Libraries Style Genre Guides Classical Folk-Ethnic-World Jazz Musicals-Operas-Theatre Pop-Rock-Country READ MUSIC NOW! for piano...
http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html

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.
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Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Genres  Ethnic and national music Film Music Flamenco Folk music Improvisation Jazz Opera, Opera Companies, and Musical Theatre Orchestral music Ragtime Rap/Hip hop Reggae/Ska Religious music Rock/Pop/Alternative, etc. and Music Charts Seasonal and Wedding music Tango Women composers and women's music...
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html

Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000.
http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/pachet-riao2000.pdf

Musical style sort with detailed definitions from site maintained by musical journalists. Requires free registration.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:

Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available Online.
http://www.idiap.ch/~paiement/re...re_classification/pachet-02c.pdf