List of cultural and regional genres of music

Cultural genres

By ethnicity or origin

• Ainu
• Indigenous Australian
• Chamorro
• Maori
• Palestinian
• Russian
• Samaritan

Immigrant communities

• Afrikaner
• African American
• Anglo-American
• Anglo-Australian
• Cajun and Louisiana Creole
• Caribbean-British
• Immigrants to Australia
• Immigrants to the United States
• Indian-British
• Indo-Caribbean
• Irish- and Scottish-Australian
• Irish- and Scottish-Canadian
• Irish- and Scottish-American
• Latino-American
• North African-French
• Tex-Mex and Tejano

International ethnic groups

• Afro-American (also Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean)
• Andean
• Arabic
• Assyrian
• Basque
• Bedouin
• Berber
• Celtic
• Chaldean
• Garifuna
• Korean
• Kurd
• Jewish
  • Ashkenazi
  • Bene Israel
  • Beta Israel
  • Sephardic
• Lao
• Maroon
• Miskito
• Native American and First Nations
• Nordic
• Roma (Gypsy)
• Sami
• Tamil

Native Sub-Saharan African ethnic groups

• Ashante
• Baganda
• Bakongo
• Bushman
• Dogon
• Ewe
• Fulani
• Hausa
• Igbo
• Kasena
• Khoikhoi
• Khoisan
• Kikuyu
• Kongo
• Malinke
• Masai
• Ndebele
• Pedo
• Pygmy
• San
• Shona
• Sotho
• Swazi
• Tiw
• Tswana
• Venda
• Wolof
• Xhosa
• Yoruba
• Zulu

Native American ethnic groups

• Aleut
• Apache
• Arapaho
• Blackfoot
• Chippewa
• Choctaw
• Cree
• Dene
• Haida
• Iroquois
• Innu
• Inuit
• Kiowa
• Kwakiutl
• Navajo
• Ojibwe
• Omaha
• Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni)
• Seminole
• Sioux (Lakota, Dakota)
• Tlingit
• Tsimshian
• Yuman

Indigenous Caribbean, Mexican, South and Central American people

• Huastec
• Indigenous Brazilians
• Kallawaya
• Maya
• Otavalo
• Purépecha
• Quechua
• Zapotec

By religion

• Assyrian Church
• Buddhism
• Christianity
  • Anglicanism and Episcopalianism
  • Amish
  • Baptist
  • Christian Scientist
  • Latter-Day Saints
  • Mar Thoma
  • Melkite
  • Methodist
  • Nestorian
  • Pentecostal and Renewal
  • Roman Catholic
  • Salvation Army
  • Unitarian Church
  • United Church of Christ
  • United Reformed Church
• Hare Krishna
• Hinduism
• Judaism
  • Karaite
• Islam
  • Dervish
• Native American religion
• Rastafarianism
• Santeria
• Shintoism
• Sikhism
• Taoism
• Voodoo
• Zoroastrianism

See also: Music of the Vatican City

By language

• Esperanto
• Portuguese

By occupation, purpose or occasion

• Camp song
• Carnival
• Children
• Christmas
• Comedy
• Courtship
• Devotional
• Funerals
• Harvest
• Lullaby
• Military
• Mourning
• Patriotic
• Politics
• Protest
• Religious
• Sailors
• Weddings
• Work

Geographic genres

By country

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Angola
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana

• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Comoros
• Congo-Kinsasha
• Congo-Brazzaville
• Costa Rica
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Croatia
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• East Timor
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Georgia
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Libya
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Malta
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Korea
• Norway
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Palau
• Palestine
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Seychelles
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Solomon Islands
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Suriname
• Swaziland
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• United Arab Emirates
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Western Sahara
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

By continent or other international region

• Africa
• Asia
• Caribbean
• Caucasus
• Central America
• Central Asia
• East Africa
• East Asia
• Eastern Europe
• Lesser Antilles
• Low Countries
• Melanesia
• Micronesia
• Middle East
• New Guinea
• North Africa
• North America
• Northern Europe
• Oceania
• Persian Gulf states
• Polynesia
• South America
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Southern Europe
• West Africa
• Western Europe

By province, region or other sub-national entity

Algeria

• Kabylia

Argentina

• Buenos Aires

Armenia

• Yerevan

Australia

• Adelaide
• Brisbane
• Canberra
• Perth
• Sydney
• Tasmania

Austria

• Baden bei Wien
• Bregenz
• Carinthia
• Graz
• Innsbruck
• Josefstadt
• Klosterneuberg
• Linz
• Salzburg
• Vienna

Azerbaijan

• Baku

Belarus

• Minsk

Belgium

• Antwerp
• Brussels
• Ghent
• Leuven
• Liège
• Mechelen
• Mons

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Sarajevo

Brazil

• Bahia
• Manaus
• Northeast
• Rio de Janeiro
• Salvador
• São Paulo

Bulgaria

• Blagoevgrad
• Macedonia
• Pleven
• Plovdiv
• Thrace

Canada

Cities:

• Calgary
• Edmonton
• Montreal
• Ottawa
• Toronto
• Vancouver
• Winnipeg

Regions:

• Maritime Provinces
• Prairie Provinces
• West

Provinces and Territories:

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Northwest Territories
• Nova Scotia
• Nunavut
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon

Chile

• Easter Island
• Music of Central Chile
• Music of Northern Chile
• Music of Southern Chile

China

• Anhui
• Beijing
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Henan
• Hong Kong
• Hunan
• Hubei
• Inner Mongolia
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Macau
• Manchuria
• Qinghai
• Shangdong
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Tibet
• Xinjiang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang

Colombia

• Bogota

Costa Rica

• Guanacaste

Croatia

• Dubrovnik
• Hvar
• Osijek
• Rijeka
• Zadar
• Zagreb

Cuba

• Havana
• Santiago

Czech Republic

• Brno
• Ústí nad Labem
• Bohemia
• Kroměříž
• Liberec
• Moravia
• Olomouc
• Opava
• Ostrava
• Plzeň
• Prague

Denmark

• Aarhus
• Copenhagen
• Odense

Overseas:

• Faroe Islands
• Greenland

Ecuador

• Esmeraldas
• Imbabura
• Sierra

Egypt

• Cairo

Finland

• Åland
• Helsinki
• Karelia
• Savonlinna
• Turku

France

Cities

• Allaire
• Amiens
• Angers
• Aquitaine
• Arles
• Besançon
• Béziers
• Colmar
• Lille
• Lyon
• Manche
• Marseilles
• Metz
• Montpellier
• Nantes
• Nice
• Nîmes
• Orléans
• Paris
• Poitiers
• Reims
• Rennes
• Rouen

Regions

• Alsace
• Auvergne
• Avignon
• Béarn
• Bordeaux
• Brittany
• Burgundy
• Corsica
• Dijon
• Gascony
• Languedoc
• Limousin
• Lorraine
• Normandy
• Picardy
• Provence
• Rousillon
• Savoy

Overseas:

• Austral Islands
• French Guiana
• French Polynesia
• Gambier Islands
• Marquesas Islands
• Martinique and Guadeloupe
• Mayotte
• New Caledonia
• Réunion
• St. Pierre and Miquelon
• Tahiti
• Wallis and Futuna

Germany

Cities

• Aachen
• Alsbach
• Ansbach
• Augsburg
• Bad Ems
• Baden-Baden
• Barmen
• Berlin
• Bielefeld
• Braunschweig
• Bremen
• Bremerhaven
• Coburg
• Cologne
• Darmstadt
• Dortmund
• Dresden
• Duisburg
• Düsseldorf
• Elberfeld
• Erfurt
• Flensburg
• Frankfurt
• Frankfurt an der Oder
• Freiburg
• Fulda
• Füssen
• Gelsenkirchen
• Giessen
• Göttingen
• Hamburg
• Hanover
• Heidelberg
• Hildesheim
• Jena
• Kaiserslautern
• Kassel
• Kiel
• Koblenz
• Konstanz
• Köthen
• Krefeld
• Leipzig
• Lübeck
• Lüneburg
• Magdeburg
• Mainz
• Munich
• Münster
• Nuremberg
• Oberhausen
• Oldenburg
• Osnabrück
• Passau
• Pforzheim
• Regensburg
• Rostock
• Saarbrücken
• Schwerin
• Schwetzingen
• Trier
• Ulm
• Wiesbaden
• Wupertal
• Würzburg
• Zwickau

Regions

• Bavaria
• Saxony
• Schleswig-Holstein
• Sorbia
• Swabia

Greece

• Aegean Islands
• Arcadia
• Argos
• Athens
• Crete
• Cyclades
• Dodecanese Islands
• Epirus
• Ionian Islands
• Lesbos
• Macedonia
• Peloponnesos
• Thessaloniki
• Thessaly
• Thrace

Guatemala

• Guatemala City

Hungary

• Budapest
• Debrecen
• Pécs

Iceland

• Reykjavik

India

• Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Andhra Pradesh
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Assam
• Bengal
• Bihar
• Chhattisgarh
• Goa
• Gujarat
• Haryana
• Himachal Pradesh
• Jammu
• Jharkhand
• Karnataka
• Kashmir
• Kerala
• Madhya Pradesh
• Maharashtra
• Manipur
• Meghalaya
• Mizoram
• Nagaland
• Orissa
• Punjab
• Rajasthan
• Sikkim
• Tamil Nadu
• Tripura
• Uttar Pradesh
• Uttaranchal

Indonesia

• Bali
• Borneo
• Flores
• Java
• Kalimantan
• Moluccan Islands
• Nias
• Papua
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra
• Sunda
• West Irian Jaya

Ireland

• Drogheda
• Dublin
• Wexford

Israel

• Haifa
• Jerusalem
• Tel Aviv

Italy

Regions:

• Aosta Valley
• Calabria
• Campania
• Friuli
• Latium
• Liguria
• Lombardy
• Marche
• Piedmont
• Puglia
• Sardinia
• Sicily
• Trentino-South Tyrol
• Tuscany
• Veneto

Cities:

• Bari
• Bergamo
• Bologna
• Bolzano
• Brescia
• Cagliari
• Catania
• Ferrara
• Florence
• Genoa
• Livorno
• Lucca
• Mantua
• Milan
• Modena
• Naples
• Padua
• Palermo
• Parma
• Perugia
• Piacenza
• Pisa
• Pistoia
• Ravenna
• Trieste
• Turin
• Venice
• Verona

Japan

• Kobe
• Kyoto
• Okinawa
• Osaka
• Tokyo

Kazakhstan

• Almaty

Latvia

• Liepāja
• Riga

Lithuania

• Kaunas
• Vilnius

Malaysia

• Borneo
• Peninsular Malaysia

Mexico

• Chiapas
• Durango
• Guadalajara
• Jalisco
• Mexico City
• Michoacán
• Monterrey
• Morelia
• Oaxaca
• Puebla
• Querétaro
• Sinaloa
• Veracruz
• Yucatán

F. S. of Micronesia

• Chuuk
• Kosrae
• Pohnpei
• Yap

Moldova

• Chişinău

Mongolia

• Ulaanbaatar

Morocco

• Casablanca
• Fes

Netherlands

• Amsterdam
• Friesland
• Maastricht
• Rotterdam
• Scheveningen
• Utrecht

Overseas:

• Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles

New Zealand

• Auckland
• Christchurch
• Wellington

Overseas:

• Cook Islands
• Niue
• Tokelau

Norway

• Oslo

Papua New Guinea

• Bismarck Archipelago

Paraguay

• Asunción

Peru

• Lima

Philippines

• Luzon
• Mindanao
• Visayas

Poland

• Bielsko-Biała
• Bydgoszcz
• Gdańsk
• Gniezno
• Katowice
• Kołobrzeg
• Kraków
• Legnica
• Podhale
• Sopot
• Warsaw
• Wrocław

Portugal

• Lisbon
• Porto

Romania

• Banat
• Braşov
• Cluj-Napoca
• Dobrogea
• Iaşi
• Moldavia
• Transylvania
• Wallachia

Russia

Cities:

• Bishkek
• Gatchina
• Kaliningrad
• Kirov
• Kislovodsk
• Kronstadt
• Moscow
• Novosibirsk
• Pavlovsk
• Rostov-on-Don
• Saint Petersburg
• Samara
• Saratov
• Ufa
• Vologda
• Voronezh
• Yekaterinburg

Regions:

• Adygea
• Altai
• Astrakhan
• Bashkortostan
• Buryatia
• Chechnya
• Chelyabinsk
• Chukotka
• Chuvashia
• Dagestan
• Evenkia
• Ingushetia
• Irkutsk
• Kaliningrad
• Kalmykia
• Kamchatka
• Karelia
• Khakassia
• Khantia-Mansia
• Komi Republic
• Mari El
• Mordovia
• Nenetsia
• Ossetia
• Sakha
• Sakhalin
• Tatarstan
• Tuva
• Udmurtia

Serbia and Montenegro

• Belgrade
• Kosovo
• Montenegro
• Novi Sad
• Serbia
• Vojvodina

Slovakia

• Bratislava
• Košice

Slovenia

• Ljubljana
• Maribor

South Africa

• Bloemfontein
• Cape Town
• Durban
• Johannesburg
• Pretoria

Spain

• Andalusia
• Aragon
• Balearic Islands
• Barcelona
• Basque Country
• Bilbao
• Cadiz
• Canary Islands
• Castile, Madrid and Leon
• Catalonia
• Extremadura
• Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias
• Madrid
• Mahon
• Majorca
• Minorca
• Murcia
• Navarre and La Rioja
• Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Santiago de Compostela
• Valencia

Sweden

• Gothenburg
• Lund
• Malmö
• Stockholm
• Umeå
• Vadstena

Switzerland

• Basel
• Bern
• Geneva
• Lausanne
• Lucerne
• Winterthur
• Zug
• Zurich

Tajikistan

• Badakhshan
• Dushanbe

Turkey

• Ankara
• Antioch
• Istanbul
• Thrace

Turkmenistan

• Ashagabat

Ukraine

• Crimea
• Kharkiv
• Kiev
• Lviv
• Odessa

United Kingdom

Cities:

• Aberdeen
• Abingdon
• Aldeburgh
• Andover
• Bath
• Belfast
• Birmingham
• Bournemouth
• Bradford
• Bristol
• Buxton
• Cambridge
• Cardiff
• Cheltenham
• Chester
• Coventry
• Edinburgh
• Ely
• Glasgow
• Gloucester
• Glyndebourne
• Hereford
• Leeds
• Liverpool
• London
• Manchester
• Middlesex
• Newcastle upon Tyne
• Norfolk
• Norwich
• Nottingham
• Salisbury
• Warwick
• Winchester
• Worcester

Regions:

• Channel Islands
• Cornwall
• England
• Essex
• Isle of Man
• Northern Ireland
• Kent
• Northumbria
• Scotland
• Somerset
• Suffolk
• Wales

Overseas:

• Anguilla
• Bermuda
• Cayman Islands
• Falkland Islands
• Gibraltar
• Montserrat
• Saint Helena
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Virgin Islands

United States

Regions:

• Appalachia
• New England
• South
• West

Cities:

• Akron
• Amarillo
• Anchorage
• Ann Arbor
• Annapolis
• Athens
• Atlanta
• Austin
• Baltimore
• Baton Rouge
• Berkeley
• Boston
• Buffalo
• Chapel Hill
• Charlotte
• Chicago
• Cleveland
• Colorado Springs
• Columbia
• Dallas
• Dayton
• Denver
• Des Moines
• Detroit
• El Paso
• Fargo
• Fort Lauderdale
• Fort Worth
• Fresno
• Honolulu
• Houston
• Indianapolis
• Juneau
• Kansas City
• Knoxville
• Las Vegas
• Little Rock
• Long Beach
• Los Angeles
• Louisville
• Lubbock
• Madison
• Memphis
• Miami
• Milwaukee
• Minneapolis
• Nashville
• New Orleans
• New York City
• Newark
• Oakland
• Oklahoma City
• Olympia
• Omaha
• Philadelphia
• Phoenix
• Pittsburgh
• Portland, Maine
• Portland, Oregon
• Raleigh
• Reno
• Sacramento
• Salt Lake City
• San Diego
• San Francisco
• San Jose
• Santa Fe
• Sarasota
• Tucson
• Tulsa
• Washington D.C.
• Wilmington

States:

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

Overseas:

• American Samoa
• Guam
• Mariana Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands

Uruguay

• Montevideo

Venezuela

• Caracas

Historical genres

• Achaemenid music
• Akkadian music
• Ancient Greek music
• Ancient Roman music
• Babylonian music
• Baroque music
• Byzantine music
• Canaanite music
• Chaldean music
• Classical music era
• Early music
• Medieval music
• Moorish music
• Ottoman music
• Parthian music
• Persian music
• Philistine music
• Phoenician music
• Phrygian music
• Renaissance music
• Romantic music
• Sassanid music
• Soviet music
• Sumerian music

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