What are the different types of world music?

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2026-03-28 14:41

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There are many thousands of different kinds of music around the world, these are just some examples from different countries or regions of some of the styles:

  • World Fusion,
  • Rock,
  • Classical,
  • Turkish Classical,
  • Turkish Pop,
  • Broadway Musical,
  • Theatrical, Movie Scores,
  • Rap,
  • Alternative,
  • Native American,
  • Pop, Disco,
  • Sengalese Pop,
  • Soul,
  • Hard Rock,
  • Gothic,
  • Heavy Metal,
  • Folk,
  • Nordic Folk,
  • Blues,
  • Jazz,
  • Symphony,
  • Reggae,
  • Ska,
  • Opera,
  • Marching Band,
  • New Age, Meditation,
  • Western,
  • Country, Honky Tonk,
  • Bluegrass,
  • Barber Shop,
  • Be Bop, Doo Wop,
  • Children's Learning Songs,
  • Songs of Oral History,
  • Overtone Singing/Tuva Throat Singing,
  • Inuit Throat Singing (katajjaq),
  • Madrigal,
  • Drumming, Goombay,
  • Marimba Music Style,
  • Bomba,
  • Mariachi,
  • Flamenco,
  • LLanero,
  • Gospel, Hymn, Christian,
  • Cantorial Jewish Music,
  • The Adhan (Islamic Call to Prayer),
  • Contemporary Christian,
  • Dirge,
  • New Orleans Traditional Funeral with Music "Jazz Funeral",
  • Roma (Gypsy) Music,
  • Chant,
  • Mass,
  • Choir,
  • Highland,
  • Celtic,
  • Kulintang,
  • Kabuki,
  • Arab classical,
  • Sufi,
  • Acadian,
  • Bollywood,
  • Basque Music, trikitrixa,
  • Aboriginal Traditional,
  • Andalusian Classical,
  • Polynesian, Hawaiian Chant, Hula Music,
  • Zydeco,
  • Lhamo (Tibetan Folk Opera),
  • Polonaise,
  • Mazurka,
  • Ballet,
  • Tembang sunda,
  • Gamelan,
  • Hákveða (Icelandic Folk Songs),
  • Chinese Taoist Music,
  • Yayue,
  • French Chanson,
  • Reel, Jig, Clog,
  • Troubadour, Medieval Minstrel, Renaissance Folk Music


For an exhaustive list of the world music genres, see the WikiPedia link below.

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