Smooth jazz
Shoegaze (Music)
Power pop (Music)
Celtic rock music
Glam rock music
Jam band music
Alternative pop music
Chamber pop (Music) OR Orchestral pop (Music)
Americana (Music) OR Roots rock music
Cabaret (Music)
Jump blues (Music)
Rancheras (Music)
Grime (Music)
Dubstep (Music)
Slowcore (Music)
Chamber jazz
Mersey beat (Music)
Gypsy jazz
Mod revival (Music)
Hiplife (Music)
Trip hop (Music)

Tierra caliente (Music) - see Wikipedia

Morna (Music) - see Wikipedia

Standards (Music) or Jazz standards

Needs BTs of Jazz, Jazz vocals and Popular music. Most recordings I see which refer to themselves as such are vocal but subject term could certainly be applied to instrumental works as well. Not sure if two headings would be needed in that case. See Grove Music Online: Standard, Wikipedia:Jazz standard and allmusic.com, explore genres: standards (though for some reason they have it as a subset of Hard bop??) Yes, kind of ambiguous but no more so than headings such as Love songs.

Contemporary folk music

We need a heading to differentiate popular musical styles called "folk" from traditional music which would more appropriately get the LCSH "Folk music" heading. There is "Folk-rock music" but that doesn't seem to cover acoustic or singer/songwriter styles. See the Grove Music Online article on Folk music: Folk revivals. Aparently Bob Dylan and others in the 60's used "contemporary folk" to distinguish themselves from performers of traditional music but interestingly, allmusic.com reserves "Contemporary folk" for post-Dylan artists.

When we're not talking about American (etc.) popular folk, we can use "World beat (Music)," although it's a term I personally don't much care for. "Contemporary folk" is better, but what happens when its no longer "contemporary?" Still, I'd vote for it if we can't come up with anything less time-sensitive ...

Power pop music- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:383. BT= Popular music

These narrower genres of Celtic music (which are defined in the Celtic music subject authority record right now, among others):
Celtic new age music - Celtic New Age is a hybrid of Celtic themes, instrumentation, and songs, plus new age production and sensibilities. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:7726 . BT= Celtic music, New Age music

Celtic pop music- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:828 BT= Celtic music, Popular music

Celtic fusion music- incorporates elements of traditional Celtic music with new age and pop. The result is something that is reminiscent of Celtic music, particularly in themes and motifs, but the instrumentation is distinctly contemporary, and the overall feel is neither Celtic nor new age -- it falls somewhere between the two styles. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:4462 . BT= Celtic music, New age music, Popular music.

Celtic rock music- Celtic rock artists combine traditional Irish instruments with rock rhythms… often shows the definitive stamp of Irish pub music, but it also draws equally from pop music sounds that range from R&B to alternative rock. BT= Celtic music, Rock music

Celtic gospel music- Celtic Gospel are gospel songs -- both traditional and new compositions -- performed in a Celtic style. Usually, Celtic gospel is performed in a traditional style, but as contemporary Celtic grew in popularity during the '90s, some Celtic gospel in this vein was recorded, as well. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:7198 . BT= Celtic music, Gospel music

also... Celtic punk music- "punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music...Celtic punk bands often play covers of traditional Irish folk and political songs, as well as original compositions. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_punk) BT= Celtic music, Punk music. NT= Scottish Gaelic punk music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_punk)

Electronica (Music)

I wish we could get this removed as a See Ref to Underground dance music and established as it's own heading. Should be BT to Underground dance music and any other synthesized/electronic popular genres. I think is safe to say the in current usage, all UDM is Electronica but not all Electronica is UDM.

See: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:11605 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronica

There are several Caribbean genres that are missing:

Parang music
Soca
Kaiso
Tassa Drumming
Merengue

All of these terms are easily referenced in Wikipedia as well as a Caribbean music textbooks such as Peter Manuel's "Caribbean Currents" (1995)

Some ideas for genre terms:

Gypsy jazz (see Wikipedia) – In fact, I can’t find a term for gypsy music in general. In LCSH, the approved term is “Romanies $v Music.” The proposed LC Form/Genre list does include “Folk songs, Romani.” But what about the instrumental music? In fact, that brings up the broader issue: why there are tons of approved terms for “Folk songs, [ethnic or regional designation],” but not for “Folk music, [ethnic or regional designation]”? Instrumental, non-vocal music of a particular region or group doesn't get adequately represented.

Newgrass (see the ET)

Roots music – no specific source, except as a cross reference in the Wikipedia article for American Folk Music. This might be too broad or overlapping of a term. But there are bands out there that identify themselves specifically as “Roots music.” Other opinions on this one?

Three terms:
1. pìobaireachd (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%ACobaireachd)
2. pìobaireachds
3. pibroch

Explanation:

Pìobaireachd is the older Gaelic (and bagpiper-preferred) spelling of "pibroch".

"pibrochs" appears in the current list twice (why twice?); this is fine, since "pibroch" or "pìobaireachd" both describe not only the genre as a whole but also an individual piece within it - as in "those are my two favorite pìobaireachds"

But both spellings should also appear as genre terms in the singular (like "jazz" as opposed to "jazzes").

lastly: the "ì" is not crucial: "piobaireachd" is widely used

a few more...

congregational song
...a catch-all term I've seen used recently for hymns or anything else (usually relatively simple texture) sung by large non-choir groups

chamber vocal music
...as a more general term for vocal trio, vocal quartet, etc.
again this may not qualify

Byzantine chorus music
..."Byzantine chorus" is used by Greek Byzantine singers to describe the typical tenor-melody, bass-drone setup.
this may be already covered by
Music, Byzantine
and
Byzantine chants

Experimental music
...to describe any of the 1950s-onward avant-garde experimental composers...pretty hard to define, and therefore maybe not useful. But the term is frequently used in practice

Rock opera (Oxford Companion to Music: "an operatic work or stage show using songs written in the idiom of rock music"; Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_opera)

Rock musical (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_musical) - a logical counterpart to opera, which prevents all stage works in rock style from being merged into a single category

[--Rebecca Belford]

hello, my name is tom weden, and i have been listening to world music for many years. the list of candidate genre/form terms is a good list. but i have noticed a few things missing that i think should be considered. (perhaps you will get the same suggestions from other people besides me). all of the genre forms that i would like to suggest are styles of music that have been listened to by millions of people. i have listened mostly to african music and so i will focus on africa and the african diaspora: 'chimurenga' (from zimbabwe), 'benga' (from kenya), 'mbalax' (from senegal), 'gnawa' (from morocco), 'kalindula' (from zambia), 'makossa' (from cameroon), 'palm wine' (from west africa), 'jive' (from south africa), and 'jit' (from zimbabwe). 'compas' and 'rara', (from haiti), 'axe' (from brazil), 'danzon' (from cuba and puerto rico), and 'cha cha' (from cuba) and 'descargas' (from cuba). extensive citations and discography information for all of these terms can be found on the excellent afropop worldwide website (afropop.org). lastly i want to mention a non-african style, one of my favorites, 'jaipong' (from java), featured on many records, including the classic nonesuch recording 'sundanese jaipong and other popular music', by idjah hadidjah. (lots of great jaipong videos are on youtube as well). yours, tom weden.

I'd like to suggest to add the following genre terms for Korean music:
1. minyo
2. nongak
3. sinawi
4. tʻalchʻum
(Source: Grove music)

5. chŏngak
6. tanʼga
(Source: Garland encyclopedia of world music)

We have a large collection of heavy metal music here at York University (Toronto) and offer the following:
Doom metal
Grindcore
Thrash metal

Some finer, but well established metal/punk subgenres:
Christian metal
Crust punk
Drone metal
Glam metal
Gothic metal
Melodic death metal
Power metal
Sludge metal
Technical death metal
Ambient black metal
Avant-garde metal
Epic doom metal
Funeral doom metal
Stoner metal
Symphonic black metal

Most have references in AllMusic and/or Wikipedia.

Further suggestions:

Improvised music (i.e. free improvised music that is not really jazz-based)
Game music

Experimental / Art-rock music (not as a heading under "Prog rock")
Avant-rock music
Post-rock
Motown (Music)
Nederpop

Country blues (Music)
Chicago blues (Music)
Delta blues (Music)
Urban blues (Music)
British blues (Music)

Hard bop
Fusion (Music)
Smooth jazz (previously suggested)
Stride (Music)
Acid jazz

Lovers rock music
Reggae gospel
Punta rock music
Britpop

With the horrors of this week's tragedy in Haiti still resonating, I offer these suggestions of several Haitian popular music genres not yet in LCSH-- in its smaill way, a tribute to a rich musical culture and included with prayers for the nation's healing and recovery.

Compas (Music) -- dance style; often called "National Music of Haiti"
x Konpa (Music)
x Kompa (Music)
x Compa (Music)

Rasin (Music) -- blending of traditional vodou music elements with rock
x Mizik rasin (Music)
xMisik rasin (Music

Rap (Music) -- Haiti

Mini-jazz
xMini-dhaz

Sources: Allmusic, Garland, wikipedia, Manuel's "Caribbean Currents"

Hi!

I have been working with reason (music program) and accidentally found this new method, wich soon turned out to be a new genre.

AS a founder, I have decided to name this genre Kabinetti(Finnish) and Cabinet(english) because of the heavy use of amplifiers and modeling of space. Previews of the sound can be found here:

www.mikseri.net/kabinetti/

and also in my other project is one song "Love Cabinet":

www.mikseri.net/prewikat/

- Henri

Sorry I didnt write those links correctly..

http://www.mikseri.net/kabinetti/

http://www.mikseri.net/prewikat/

Branles
X Bransles
X Brandes
X Brawls (Music)
X Brall
X Brangill

See: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/03845?q=branles&search=quick&pos=31&_start=26#firsthit