Music Genres

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1. Music Genres by Nicolas McCurdy

2. Disclaimers • Genre classifications can be subjective • I’m biased

   • Genres overlap, often creating more subgenres • We’re mostly focusing on modern American music

3. Electronic • Ambient • Breakbeat ◦ Big beat • Chiptune

   • Downtempo ◦ New-age ◦ Trip hop • Drum and bass • Electronica ◦ Chillwave ◦ IDM ◦ Glitch ◦ Electronic rock ◦ Indietronica ◦ Synthpop • Hardcore • House • Industrial • Techno • Trance

4. • East Coast hip hop • West Coast hip hop

   • Alternative hip hop • Gangsta rap • Trap Hip hop

5. Pop • Baroque pop • Pop rock • Psychedelic pop

   • Synthpop

6. • Alternative rock ◦ Dream pop ◦ Grunge ◦ Indie

   rock • Art rock • Math rock • New wave • Noise rock • Pop rock • Post-rock • Shoegaze Rock • Progressive rock • Punk rock

7. • Alternative metal ◦ Nu metal • Black metal •

   Death metal ◦ Melodic death metal ◦ Technical death metal • Doom metal • Gothic metal • Industrial metal Rock→Metal • Metalcore ◦ Deathcore ◦ Mathcore • Nu metal • Post-metal • Power metal • Progressive metal ◦ Djent • Symphonic metal

8. Avant-garde • Experimental • Noise

9. Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_music_genres