progressive metal

The “progressive metal” movement began in the 1990s with the group Dream Theater.

2001, Pat Browne, The guide to United States popular culture, Popular Press, page 373:

In 1988 they reached their true breakthrough both as a progressive metal band and as a commercial force with Operation Mindcrime, a concept album whose progressive elements were supplemented by symphonic arrangements played by a live orchestra.

2003, Daniel Bukszpan, Ronnie James Dio, The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal, Barnes & Noble Publishing, page 106:

Formed in 1987 by guitarist Kevin Heidbreder and bassist John Emery, St. Louis' Anacrusis grew from a talented thrash outfit to one of the most highly respected progressive metal bands in the United States.

2005, Joel McIver, Extreme Metal II, Music Sales Group, page 25:

a subgenre of heavy metal with progressive rock influences


glitchcore

Herbert is a former piano prodigy and Exeter drama student who went from touring with UK big bands to freaking clubbers with samplers and kitchen utensils, and his cozy records merge glitchcore buzz and tech-house heat […]

2001 March, SPIN, volume 17, number 3, page 150:

Rather than UR-styled militant Techno, the first two singles, sleeved in exploding vector designs, showcase the glitchcore sounds of code warriors like Richard Devine, Kero and Mode Selektor.


როკი

roḳi (romanization)
როკი (nominative singular)
როკმა (ergative singular)
როკს (dative singular)
როკს (dative singular)
როკსაs) (dative singular)
როკსაsa) (dative singular)
როკის (genitive singular)
როკის (genitive singular)
როკისაs) (genitive singular)
როკისაsa) (genitive singular)
როკით (instrumental singular)
როკით (instrumental singular)
როკითაt) (instrumental singular)
როკითაta) (instrumental singular)
როკად (adverbial singular)
როკად (adverbial singular)
როკადაd) (adverbial singular)
როკადაda) (adverbial singular)
როკო (singular vocative)
-ზე
როკზე (singular)
-თან
როკთან (singular)
-ში
როკში (singular)
-ვით
როკივით (singular)
-თვის
როკისთვის (singular)
-ებრ
როკისებრ (singular)
-კენ
როკისკენ (singular)
-გან
როკისგან (singular)
-ადმი
როკისადმი (singular)
-დან
როკიდან (singular)
-ურთ
როკითურთ (singular)
-მდე
როკამდე (singular)


cuarteto

Borrowed from Spanish cuarteto (“quartet”), because the early dance-hall numbers were invariably four-piece bands (violin, piano, accordion, bass). Doublet of quartet.

(music) An upbeat genre of music from Argentina, descended from Italian and Spanish dance ensembles.


დისკო

ka-noun

დისკო • (disḳo) (plural დისკოები)

disḳo (romanization)
დისკოები (plural)
დისკო (nominative singular)
დისკოები (nominative plural)
დისკონი (archaic nominative plural)
დისკომ (ergative singular)
დისკოებმა (ergative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოს (dative singular)
დისკოს (dative singular)
დისკოსაs) (dative singular)
დისკოსაsa) (dative singular)
დისკოებს (dative plural)
დისკოებს (dative plural)
დისკოებსაs) (dative plural)
დისკოებსაsa) (dative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic dative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic dative plural)
დისკოთაt) (archaic dative plural)
დისკოთაta) (archaic dative plural)
დისკოს (genitive singular)
დისკოს (genitive singular)
დისკოსაs) (genitive singular)
დისკოსაsa) (genitive singular)
დისკოების (genitive plural)
დისკოების (genitive plural)
დისკოებისაs) (genitive plural)
დისკოებისაsa) (genitive plural)
დისკოთ (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთ (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთ (instrumental singular)
დისკოთ (instrumental singular)
დისკოთაt) (instrumental singular)
დისკოთაta) (instrumental singular)
დისკოებით (instrumental plural)
დისკოებით (instrumental plural)
დისკოებითაt) (instrumental plural)
დისკოებითაta) (instrumental plural)
დისკოდ (adverbial singular)
დისკოდ (adverbial singular)
დისკოდაd) (adverbial singular)
დისკოდაda) (adverbial singular)
დისკოებად (adverbial plural)
დისკოებად (adverbial plural)
დისკოებადაd) (adverbial plural)
დისკოებადაda) (adverbial plural)
დისკოვ (singular vocative)
დისკოებო (plural vocative)
დისკონო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე
დისკოზე (singular)
დისკოებზე (plural)
-თან
დისკოსთან (singular)
დისკოებთან (plural)
-ში
დისკოში (singular)
დისკოებში (plural)
-ვით
დისკოსავით (singular)
დისკოებივით (plural)
-თვის
დისკოსთვის (singular)
დისკოებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ
დისკოსებრ (singular)
დისკოებისებრ (plural)
-კენ
დისკოსკენ (singular)
დისკოებისკენ (plural)
-გან
დისკოსგან (singular)
დისკოებისგან (plural)
-ადმი
დისკოსადმი (singular)
დისკოებისადმი (plural)
-დან
დისკოდან (singular)
დისკოებიდან (plural)
-ურთ
დისკოთურთ (singular)
დისკოებითურთ (plural)
-მდე
დისკომდე (singular)
დისკოებამდე (plural)


jump blues

(music) A type of boogie-woogie blues music influenced by big band swing, typically performed by a seven-piece combo and characterized by use of horns, shuffle rhythm, group singing during the choruses and raunchy lyrics.


opérette

→ Arabic: أوبريت (ʔōberēt)

→ Persian: اپرت (operet)

→ Turkish: operet


chakacha

A traditional Swahili style of music and dance.


jibaro

en-noun

jibaro (countable and uncountable, plural jibaros)

The cultivation of the crops is entirely in the hands of the jibaro, or peasant, who is seldom of direct Spanish descent, while the financiering and exportation is conducted almost entirely by peninsulares, or Spanish-born colonists, who monopolize every branch of commerce to the exclusion of the colonian-born subject.

1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:


hardbag

Blend of hard + handbag, i.e. a harder form of the earlier genre handbag or handbag house.

They present a wide range of dance styles, including electro, trance, acid house, handbag, hardbag, hardcore, happy hardcore, drum-and-bass, hi-NRG and even industrial.

2003, Aline Scott-Maxwell, John Whiteoak, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia:

A melodic genre of electronic dance music of the mid-1990s, usually with female vocals.


foxcore

From fox + -core. See fox (“attractive woman”).

Music by female-fronted bands of the 1990s.


(jazz) Used at the beginning of the staff.


techstep

Another area where I suspect there's some crossover, but I haven't poked around in much, is within death/black metal. Certainly some of what I've heard has the dark techy feel of techstep / darkstep like Technical Itch and whatnot, but it's not something I've had the time to look into properly.

2004 October 5, Phil Evans, “breaks / Drum and base / thrash metal”, in alt.music.drum-n-bass (Usenet):

Although the more experimental edge encapsulated this darkness, the DJ-led sound called for simplicity. Standing out was the arrival of techstep; a sound that was heralded by DJ Trace's Mutant Revisited, a radical reworking of T-Power's Mutant Jazz.

(music) A subgenre of drum and bass music heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.


garaĝo

eo-head

garaĝo (accusative singular garaĝon, plural garaĝoj, accusative plural garaĝojn)

garaĝon (accusative singular)
garaĝoj (plural)
garaĝojn (accusative plural)
garagho (alternative)
garagxo (alternative)


Neue Deutsche Härte

de-proper noun

die Neue Deutsche Härte f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Neuen Deutschen Härte)

die Neue Deutsche Härte (canonical feminine)
der Neuen Deutschen Härte (definite genitive)

[ˈnɔʏ̯ə ˈdɔʏ̯tʃə ˈhɛɐ̯tə]

[ˈnɔʏ̯ə ˈdɔʏ̯tʃə ˈhɛʁtə]

From neu (“new”) + deutsch (“German”) + Härte (“hardness”), inspired by Neue Deutsche Welle (“new German wave”).

compound

"Es ist toll, so viele schöne Menschen zu sehen!", ruft auch der Sänger der Frankfurter Band ASP. Sie spielt Stumpfrock mit dunkler Stimme. Neue Deutsche Härte nennt sie das.

[2008 August 11, David Hugendick, “Allein unter Grufties”, in Die Zeit:

Neue Deutsche Härte; a genre of German hard rock/heavy metal music originating in the 1990s, incorporating elements of dance music and electronica


technorock

With its mix of European technorock, funk, and rapping, “Planet Rock” was a model of fusion that imagined unity across cultures the same way Bambaataa had created unity across gang lines.

2011, Sujatha Fernandes, Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation:

Wynette even dipped to self-parody, recording with the English-based technorock group KLF, scoring a British hit in 1992 with “Justified and Ancient.”

2005, Richard Carlin, Country, page 221:

A genre combining elements of techno and rock music.


cock rock

Ellen performs with incredible force and strength. Her guitar style is unique and very special, and her slide work could probably destroy any number of male institutions, particularly the one that says women can't play electric guitar, plus the feminist myth that all electric music is cock-rock. Ellen could probably squash the main proponents of cock-rock under her thumb-pick.

1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, Ellie McIlwaine, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 9:

People have this image of us. They think we're cock rock. It's time to rein it in a bit. We're not going, Wahey! and pouring champagne on girls' tits.

2004, Dave Black, The Darkness "Talking":

Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.

2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(informal) A style of rock music performed by male bands, emphasizing aggressive sexuality.


bluebeat

From blue + beat, named after Blue Beat Records.

Reggae music came to the UK shores as bluebeat and later through names like ska and rocksteady.

1971 November 13, Billboard, volume 83, number 46, page 34:

Chris returned with a trunk full of bluebeat 45s that sold out in days. On his next trip he decided to learn more about the Jamaican music business.

2010, Joe Boyd, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, page 180:

There we could all dance, or in my case tap my feet the night away to OUR music: ska, bluebeat and motown.

2011, Ted Curtis, Robert Dellar, Leslie Esther, Mad Pride, page 38:

Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.

2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271:

Any of various styles of Jamaican music, popular in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.


jazz poetry

(poetry, jazz) A form of poetry of the 1920s employing jazz-like rhythm or a feeling of improvisation.


D-beat

d-beat (alternative)
D-Beat (alternative)


crust punk

en-noun

crust punk (countable and uncountable, plural crust punks)

The term crust came from the band Hellbastard's 1986 Ripper Crust demo.

Coordinate term: hardcore punk

Crust: Also called crustcore or crust punk, an extreme version of hardcore punk that arose in Great Britain in the mid-1980s, featuring lyrics that espoused anarchist political or social beliefs shouted or growled over extremely fast metal guitar […]

2010, Sharon M. Hannon, Punks: A Guide to an American Subculture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 162:

(uncountable) A subgenre of punk rock, derived from hardcore punk with extreme metal elements, often with pessimistic lyrics about political and social ills.


sevdalinka

sevdalinka (countable and uncountable, plural sevdalinkas)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian sevdalinka, a compound of Ottoman Turkish سودالی (sevdalı, “lover”) + -inka, the first element deriving from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black [bile]; melancholy”) + Ottoman Turkish ـلی (-lı).

der

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

(uncountable) A traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.


sevdalinka

head

sevdalinka (definite accusative sevdalinkayı, plural sevdalinkalar)

sevdalinkayı (accusative definite)
sevdalinkalar (plural)
sevdalinka (nominative singular)
sevdalinkalar (nominative plural)
sevdalinkayı (accusative definite singular)
sevdalinkaları (accusative definite plural)
sevdalinkaya (dative singular)
sevdalinkalara (dative plural)
sevdalinkada (locative singular)
sevdalinkalarda (locative plural)
sevdalinkadan (ablative singular)
sevdalinkalardan (ablative plural)
sevdalinkanın (genitive singular)
sevdalinkaların (genitive plural)
sevdalinkam (first-person nominative singular)
sevdalinkalarım (first-person nominative singular)
sevdalinkan (nominative second-person singular)
sevdalinkaların (nominative second-person singular)
sevdalinkası (nominative singular third-person)
sevdalinkaları (nominative singular third-person)
sevdalinkamız (first-person nominative plural)
sevdalinkalarımız (first-person nominative plural)
sevdalinkanız (nominative plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarınız (nominative plural second-person)
sevdalinkaları (nominative plural third-person)
sevdalinkamı (accusative definite first-person singular)
sevdalinkalarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
sevdalinkanı (accusative definite second-person singular)
sevdalinkalarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
sevdalinkasını (accusative definite singular third-person)
sevdalinkalarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
sevdalinkamızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
sevdalinkalarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
sevdalinkanızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
sevdalinkama (dative first-person singular)
sevdalinkalarıma (dative first-person singular)
sevdalinkana (dative second-person singular)
sevdalinkalarına (dative second-person singular)
sevdalinkasına (dative singular third-person)
sevdalinkalarına (dative singular third-person)
sevdalinkamıza (dative first-person plural)
sevdalinkalarımıza (dative first-person plural)
sevdalinkanıza (dative plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarınıza (dative plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarına (dative plural third-person)
sevdalinkamda (first-person locative singular)
sevdalinkalarımda (first-person locative singular)
sevdalinkanda (locative second-person singular)
sevdalinkalarında (locative second-person singular)
sevdalinkasında (locative singular third-person)
sevdalinkalarında (locative singular third-person)
sevdalinkamızda (first-person locative plural)
sevdalinkalarımızda (first-person locative plural)
sevdalinkanızda (locative plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarınızda (locative plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarında (locative plural third-person)
sevdalinkamdan (ablative first-person singular)
sevdalinkalarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
sevdalinkandan (ablative second-person singular)
sevdalinkalarından (ablative second-person singular)
sevdalinkasından (ablative singular third-person)
sevdalinkalarından (ablative singular third-person)
sevdalinkamızdan (ablative first-person plural)
sevdalinkalarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
sevdalinkanızdan (ablative plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarından (ablative plural third-person)
sevdalinkamın (first-person genitive singular)
sevdalinkalarımın (first-person genitive singular)
sevdalinkanın (genitive second-person singular)
sevdalinkalarının (genitive second-person singular)
sevdalinkasının (genitive singular third-person)
sevdalinkalarının (genitive singular third-person)
sevdalinkamızın (first-person genitive plural)
sevdalinkalarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
sevdalinkanızın (genitive plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
sevdalinkalarının (genitive plural third-person)


rock'n'roll

rock’n’roll (canonical masculine)
rock ’n roll (alternative)
rock & roll (alternative)
rock and roll (alternative)


Bird

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun bird.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized/translated from several names erroneously thought to contain the element éan (“bird”) such as Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan) and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney).
* Similarly translated from several other languages containing the word bird, such as German Vogel, French Loiseau, Czech Ptáček see Ptacek), Pták, Polish Ptak.
* This also extends to Native American names, such as Lakota ziŋtkala (“bird”). Compare Eagle, Hawk; Blackbird, Kingbird, Redbird, etc.

When Bird played like that, it was like hearing music for the first time. I'd never heard anybody play like that. Later Sonny Rollins and I would try to do things like that, and me and Trane, those short, hard bursts of musical phrases. But when Bird played like that, he was outrageous…

2012, John Szwed, quoting Miles Davis, So What: The Life of Miles Davis, arrow books, →ISBN:

(jazz) Charlie Parker (1920–1955), Jazz saxophonist.


drill and bass

From drill (“tool for boring”) (typically producing a loud, harsh noise) and drum and bass.

The compositional applications of granulation run from stutters (tight repetitions at rhythmic or even pitched rates; think of Mantronix's Bassline (1985) or drill and bass), to disintegration and coalescence effects.

2010, Nicholas Collins, Nick Collins, Introduction to Computer Music, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 130:

What the Squarepusher-type drill and bass artists have responded to and exaggerated ad absurdum is only one aspect of jungle: the music's complexity.

2013, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 374:

A style of electronic music with fast, loud percussion and harsh noises.


bitpop

From bit + pop; see bit (“binary digit”) and pop music; and punning on Britpop.

(neologism) A genre of electronic music based on the sound chips of older (8-bit or 16-bit) computers, but often combined with modern equipment and vocals.


villancico

From Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in which the first A is called the estribillo (refrain), the Bs represent the statement of the music for the copla (stanza) twice (as copla and mudanza), and the return of the estribillo as the vuelta.

2014, James Haar, editor, European Music, 1520–1640, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 447:

(music, poetry) A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.

gabon-kanta

traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song


villancico

Borrowed from Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

(music, poetry) villancico (traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song)


villancico

→ English: villancico

→ Galician: vilancico

→ Portuguese: vilancico, vilhancico

From villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).


pönk

is-noun

pönk n (genitive singular pönks, no plural)

pönks (genitive singular)
pönk (indefinite nominative singular)
pönkið (definite nominative singular)
pönk (accusative indefinite singular)
pönkið (accusative definite singular)
pönki (dative indefinite singular)
pönkinu (dative definite singular)
pönks (genitive indefinite singular)
pönksins (definite genitive singular)


jaðarrokk

jaðarrokk n (genitive singular jaðarrokks, no plural)

jaðarrokks (genitive singular)
jaðarrokk (indefinite nominative singular)
jaðarrokkið (definite nominative singular)
jaðarrokk (accusative indefinite singular)
jaðarrokkið (accusative definite singular)
jaðarrokki (dative indefinite singular)
jaðarrokkinu (dative definite singular)
jaðarrokks (genitive indefinite singular)
jaðarrokksins (definite genitive singular)

From jaðar (“edge, border”) + rokk (“rock music”).


grugg

is-noun

grugg n (genitive singular gruggs, no plural)

gruggs (genitive singular)
grugg (indefinite nominative singular)
gruggið (definite nominative singular)
grugg (accusative indefinite singular)
gruggið (accusative definite singular)
gruggi (dative indefinite singular)
grugginu (dative definite singular)
gruggs (genitive indefinite singular)
gruggsins (definite genitive singular)


Opera

Opera (nominative singular)
Operát (accusative singular)
Operának (dative singular)
Operával (instrumental singular)
Operáért (causal-final singular)
Operává (singular translative)
Operáig (singular terminative)
Operaként (essive-formal singular)
Operában (inessive singular)
Operán (singular superessive)
Operánál (adessive singular)
Operába (illative singular)
Operára (singular sublative)
Operához (allative singular)
Operából (elative singular)
Operáról (delative singular)
Operától (ablative singular)
Operáé (singular)
Operáéi (singular)
Operám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
Operád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
Operája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
Operánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
Operátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
Operájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)

Magyar Állami Operaház
Magyar Állami Operaház#Hungarian

(music) Alternative form of Operaház, ellipsis of Magyar Állami Operaház (“Hungarian State Opera House”) (as an institution or as a building).


grindie

The whole 'grindie' thing is just bollocks. I hate labelling music. They make up names and throw it to anything.

2006, Hip-hop connection, numbers 208-209, page 14:

He is known for MCing in grime music, and is also associated with the grindie scene which combines influences from grime, with indie rock.

2008, Damien Morgan, Hip Hop Had a Dream, volume 1, page 345:

Dizzee […] went on to make 'Temptation', creating the first grime-indie track, or 'grindie' as Dizzee calls it[…]

2011, Alex Kitts, Dizzee Rascal: Tales from Da Corner:

A style of music that fuses indie and grime music.


jazzband

jazzband (nominative singular)
jazzbandy (nominative plural)
jazzbandu (genitive singular)
jazzbandów (genitive plural)
jazzbandowi (dative singular)
jazzbandom (dative plural)
jazzband (accusative singular)
jazzbandy (accusative plural)
jazzbandem (instrumental singular)
jazzbandami (instrumental plural)
jazzbandzie (locative singular)
jazzbandach (locative plural)
jazzbandzie (singular vocative)
jazzbandy (plural vocative)
dżezbend (alternative)
jazz-band (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from English jazz band.


komorní hudba

komorní hudba (nominative singular)
komorní hudby (nominative plural)
komorní hudby (genitive singular)
komorních hudeb (genitive plural)
komorní hudbě (dative singular)
komorním hudbám (dative plural)
komorní hudbu (accusative singular)
komorní hudby (accusative plural)
komorní hudbo (singular vocative)
komorní hudby (plural vocative)
komorní hudbě (locative singular)
komorních hudbách (locative plural)
komorní hudbou (instrumental singular)
komorními hudbami (instrumental plural)


danzón

He draws from modernism and its malcontents: Morton Feldman, Olivier Messaien, Thelonious Monk. He pulls heavily from Cuban folk traditions: Changüi, Abakuá, danzón.

2022 November 30, Giovanni Russonello, “Best Jazz Albums of 2022”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

She leads the Ballet Theater orchestra throughout the run and lends vivid delicacy to the cinematic music, which incorporates traditional instruments and forms like danzón.

2023 June 23, Gia Kourlas, “Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(music) A Latin-American musical genre originating from Cuba, evolved from contradanza.


ブギウギ

[bɯ̟ɡʲiɯ̟ɡʲi]


歌謡曲

歌謡曲 (canonical)
kayōkyoku (romanization)


ghettotech

The second album features a 38-track mix featuring many of the "booty" or "ghettotech" anthems produced by the popular Detroit duo.

2001, Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to Electronica:

The club benefits from crowd-pleasing regular appearances from the Party and the occasional drop-in from ghettotech MC Prince William.

2008 January, SPIN, volume 24, number 1, page 110:

Ghettotech consists largely of four-on-the-floor dance beats at a faster tempo with lyrics that are sexually explicit and derogatory in nature.

2010, Emmett George Price, Encyclopedia of African American Music, volume 3, page 942:

electronic dance music
electronic dance music

(music) A form of electronic dance music from Chicago, combining elements of house music with electro, hip-hop, and techno.


math rock

Math rock albums have been colored by many other influences, ranging from world music to avant-garde jazz.

2013, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Progressive Rock Reconsidered, Routledge, →ISBN, page 257:

A rhythmically complex, often guitar-based style of experimental rock music that emerged in the late 1990s.


mgqashiyo

Recorded in the late '70s, with tough mgqashiyo mbaqanga out of favor among cultural as well as assimilationist blacks, this proves Mahlathini's staunch loyalty to the style he originated, his total lack of alternatives, or both.

1990, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, page 257:

[…] an orgy of dance and mgqashiyo, which, literally translated, means "the beat that will never die."

As a producer and the saxophonist for the band Makgona Tsohle, he shaped the style called sax jive and then the music that grew out of it, called mbaqanga (named after a homemade stew) or mgqashiyo, "the indestructible beat."

1998, The New York Times Biographical Service, volume 29, page 1649:

A genre of African music, a more danceable style of mbaqanga.


trancecore

Blend of trance + hardcore, or trance + -core.

A music genre combining elements of trance music and metalcore.


illbient

Blend of ill + ambient; coinage attributed to DJ Olive (Gregor Asch). See hip-hop slang sense of ill.

This describes the sound of what is known as illbient, a genre of electronic music that arose in New York in the mid-1990s. The first illbient compilations were released by the Asphodel label—Crooklyn Dub Consortium Vol. 1 in 1995 and Incursions in Illbient in 1996—and Olive was involved with both projects.

2012, Mark Katz, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(music) A music genre with layered soundscapes, dub and hip-hop influences (including the use of samples), and a progressive approach to beat programming.


fakebit

From fake + bit, alliterative with 8-bit.

A style of electronic music that uses modern software synthesizers to simulate the sound of early 8-bit computers.


ラップ

(sports, motor racing) a lap, one circuit around the track

ラップタイム ラップタイム#Japanese

(sports, motor racing) short for ラップタイム (rappu taimu, “lap time”) (time taken to complete a single lap)

ラップタイム

ラップ盤

(engineering) a machine tool part made of relatively soft material, used for finishing or polishing


danzonete

en-noun

danzonete (countable and uncountable, plural danzonetes)

A Latin-American musical genre originating from the Cuban danzón but incorporating vocal parts.


cueca

→ English: cueca


UK garage

(music) A genre of electronic music descended from house music, originating from England in the early 1990s, typically featuring a syncopated 4/4 percussive rhythm with "shuffling" hi-hats and beat-skipping kick drums.


speed garage

A faster variant of UK garage music, with warped basslines influenced by jungle and reggae.


UK funky

A genre of electronic dance music derived from UK garage, afrobeat, and other genres.


Lindmania

enthusiasm for Jenny Lind (Johanna Maria Lind, 1820–1887), Swedish opera singer


taarab

Borrowed from Swahili taarab, from Arabic طَرَب (ṭarab, “entertainment with music”).

der

A genre of music popular in Tanzania and Kenya, influenced by the music of cultures with a historical presence in East Africa.


positive punk

So called because it lacked the nihilistic aggression of the wider subculture. Coined by English journalist, author and musician Richard Cabut in 1983.


gothabilly

en-noun

gothabilly (countable and uncountable, plural gothabillies)

(music, uncountable) A musical genre combining rockabilly and gothic rock, and its associated subculture (style of clothing, etc).


ダンスホール

(music) A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.


Peking opera

Peking opera (countable and uncountable, plural Peking operas)

(music) A form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics.


adult contemporary

MTV is a singles medium, as is the hottest (warmest?) new radio strategy God help us, “adult contemporary”; even AOR devotes the contemporary portion of its programming to putative singles.

1990 January 2, Robert Christgau, “1980–1989: Rockism Faces the World”, in The Village Voice:

A category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.


秦腔

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (秦腔):
* → Japanese: 秦腔(しんこう) (shinkō)
* → Korean: 진강(秦腔) (jin'gang)

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɵn²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰɵn²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Qinqiang (the representative folk Chinese opera of the northwest province of Shaanxi, China)


vilancico

villancico (traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song)


vilancico

vilancicos (plural)
vilhancico (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”), whence also Portuguese vilão.


Eurodisco

European dance music that originated from disco in the 1970s


Eurobeat

A style of European dance music derived from Italo disco, mostly popular in Japan.


depressive black metal

The first MCD was sometimes really depressive, and the new full-length CD (out March/May 2001) will be definitively pure Depressive Black Metal, something in between Abyssic Hate, old Katatonia, old Burzum, Dolorian.

January 22, 2001, marchisio, “Re: Depressing Black Metal”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):

Dunkel - Evighed (depressive black metal in the Burzum vein - rare tape!) $6

August 1, 2003, Convivial Hermit, “various stuff for sale”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):

- FORGOTTEN TOMB "Songs to Leave" CD (great depressive black metal) 15$

October 6, 2003, O.T., “Tour de Garde mail order.”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):

For in spite of the opposition of authentic inner “strength” to corrupt, worldly “weakness” that often characterises depressive black metal artists’ statements of intent, it is not inner resolve that protects the listener from despair but a failure of rational consisency.

2009, Dominic Fox, Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria, O Books, page 47:

Our recent discovery of a blog dedicated to “depressive black metal” We guess the music sounds neat.

The SPIN 20 in SPIN, September 2011 edition, SPIN Media LLC, page 30

Active since 1997, Sin Nanna currently resides in Hobart, Tasmania, where he records and releases LPs, CDs, and DVDs to an avid global fan base of devotees of “depressive black metal,” a style of extreme heavy metal centered upon lyrical themes of ennui, abjection, and mourning.

2013, Drew Daniel, The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance, Fordham University Press, page 241:

(music) A subgenre of black metal that focuses on slow, repetitive instrumentation and depressive or suicidal lyrics and imagery.


skatepunk

en-noun

skatepunk (countable and uncountable, plural skatepunks)

skatepunks (plural)
skate punk (alternative)
skate-punk (alternative)

From skate + punk, from its popularity among skateboarders.

Similar to how Green Day, The Offspring, and Rancid brought the early 90s punk revival to the top of alternative rock, blink-182 took skate-punk to the masses in 1999 with Enema of the State.

2021, Mike Damante, Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise, Di Angelo Publications, →ISBN:

(uncountable, music) A fast, intense, melodic form of hardcore punk music, associated with skateboarding culture.


free jazz

(music, jazz) A form of jazz music of the 1950s and 1960s that attempted to overcome existing limitations and conventions, often by discarding features such as fixed chord changes or tempos.


ringbang

Coined by Eddy Grant, imitating a phrase in scat singing.

A Caribbean fusion of music genres with an associated philosophy and aesthetic based on communication.


rap metal

A music genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip-hop with heavy metal.


modinha

The drifters were coming back to play the guitar, sing modinhas, invent sambas they would later sell to famous samba singers in the city.

1988, Jorge Amado, translated by Gregory Rabassa, Captains of the Sands, Penguin, published 2013, page 159:

A kind of sentimental love song of Portugal and Brazil.


rapso

A form of Trinidadian music that grew out of the social unrest of the 1970s, with elements of soca, calypso, and hip-hop.


豫劇

/y⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jyː²² kʰɛːk̚²/

/y⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jyː²² kʰɛːk̚²/

Henan opera; Yu opera (traditional opera from Henan, China)


goombay

goombay (countable and uncountable, plural goombays)

goombays (plural)
gombay (alternative)
gombey (alternative)
gumba (alternative)

Afro-Caribbean dialects; compare Kongo nkombi, a type of drum.

(music, dance, Bahamas, uncountable) A genre of folk music played with this drum.


平劇

/pʰiŋ³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/pʰɪŋ²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

/pʰiŋ³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/pʰɪŋ²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

From abbreviation of 北平 (Běipíng) (Beiping, former name of Beijing) + 劇／剧 (jù, “opera”).


板腔體

/pän²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ tʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/pän²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ tʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

the banqiang style (literally "beat and tune style"), a system of text-setting, used primarily in Chinese opera, in which the music functions as an element subsidiary to the text


黃梅戲

ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄇㄟˊ ㄒㄧˋ

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ meɪ̯³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

/wɔːŋ²¹ muːi̯²¹ hei̯³³/

/xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ meɪ̯³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

/wɔːŋ²¹ muːi̯²¹ hei̯³³/


moombahton

Blend of Moombah (the name of a track by Dutch house DJ Chuckie) + reggaeton

blend

(music) A fusion genre of house music and reggaeton.


goregrind

A musical subgenre of grindcore and death metal.


pornogrind

"Are you fucking with me?"
"No. It's screamo, blended in with some kawaii metal, with a touch of pornogrind."

(music) A musical subgenre of grindcore and death metal that deals with sexual themes.


折子戲

/ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³ ɕi⁵¹/

/ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³ ɕi⁵¹/


大淨

/tua²²⁻²¹ t͡siã²²/

/tua²²⁻²¹ t͡siã²²/

(Hokkien, opera) painted-face role (in Chinese opera)


plunderphonics

Coined by Canadian composer John Oswald in 1985 as a compound of plunder + phonics in the essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative.

coinage

Such a practice (which is autosonic, by the way) could be viewed as a “mega-editing” process; but I would like to draw a distinction between plunderphonics and edited versions, because the former clearly aim to denature the hypotext.

2007, Allan F. Moore, Critical Essays in Popular Musicology, Routledge:

A form of musical composition based on the unauthorized use of existing audio recordings.


opera seria

en-noun

opera seria (countable and uncountable, plural opere serie)


念白

/ni̯ɛn⁵¹ paɪ̯³⁵/

/liam⁴¹⁻²² peʔ²⁴/

/liam²²⁻²¹ pɛʔ¹²¹/

/ni̯ɛn⁵¹ paɪ̯³⁵/

/liam⁴¹⁻²² peʔ²⁴/

/liam²²⁻²¹ pɛʔ¹²¹/


nu jazz

nujazz (alternative)
nu-jazz (alternative)

(music, jazz) Any music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul, or electronic dance music.


new beat

electronic body music
electronic body music

A Belgian electronic dance music genre of the 1980s that fused elements of new wave, hi-NRG, electronic body music, acid house and hip-hop.


重金屬

ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄕㄨˇ

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰʊŋ¹³ kɐm⁵⁵ sʊk̚²/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰʊŋ¹³ kɐm⁵⁵ sʊk̚²/


雜劇

/t͡sä³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡saːp̚² kʰɛːk̚²/

/t͡sä³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡saːp̚² kʰɛːk̚²/

(opera) Zaju (a form of Chinese drama or opera)


鼓吹樂

ㄍㄨˇ ㄔㄨㄟˋ ㄩㄝˋ

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/kuː³⁵ t͡sʰɵy̯³³ ŋɔːk̚²/

/kuː³⁵ t͡sʰɵy̯⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/kuː³⁵ t͡sʰɵy̯³³ ŋɔːk̚²/

/kuː³⁵ t͡sʰɵy̯⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

music played by a loud wind and percussion ensemble in traditional Chinese music, usually featuring suona, drums, gongs and cymbals


música clássica

pt-noun

música clássica f (plural músicas clássicas)

classical music (music of the Classical period)


布袋戲

→ Indonesian: wayang potehi

/pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ taɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi⁵¹/

/pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²² hei̯³³/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te²²⁻²¹ hi²¹/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ te³³⁻²¹ hi²¹/

/pɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ te³³⁻¹¹ hi¹¹/

/pɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ te⁴¹⁻²² hi⁴¹/

/pu⁵¹⁻⁵³ taɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi⁵¹/

/pou̯³³ tɔːi̯²² hei̯³³/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁵³ te²²⁻²¹ hi²¹/

/pɔ²¹⁻⁴¹ te³³⁻²¹ hi²¹/

/pɔ¹¹⁻⁵³ te³³⁻¹¹ hi¹¹/

/pɔ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ te⁴¹⁻²² hi⁴¹/

布袋戲尪仔／布袋戏尪仔 [Hokkien] ― pò͘-tē-hì ang-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― a puppet in glove puppetry

glove puppetry (a type of drama using cloth puppets originated in Southern Min-speaking regions of China); glove puppet show


toi, toi, toi

/tɔɪ tɔɪ tɔɪ/

From German toi, toi, toi, which see for more.

good luck

considered to bring misfortune if used in the theatre

(theater, opera) A superstitious expression of encouragement prior to a performance.


neopsychedelia

The Bunnymen's tasteful neopsychedelia gained fans from Courtney Love to Pavement.

2004, Nathan Brackett, Christian David Hoard, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, page 271:

(music) Music that emulates or is heavily influenced by the psychedelic music of the 1960s.


chillwave

From chill + -wave. Coined tongue-in-cheek on the blog Hipster Runoff in 2009.

As music created and shaped by the lens of blogs, music forums, and other forms of online comment, chillwave was subject to a backlash almost as soon as it had been labeled and defined.

2016, Sheila Whiteley, Shara Rambarran, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 418:

A genre of music of the late 2000s, characterized by effects processing, synthesizers, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines.


UK hardcore

A genre of electronic dance music that evolved in the United Kingdom from happy hardcore and rave.


Hi-NRG

As a regular visitor to New York's Saint and resident at the newly opened Heaven in London, Levine also pioneered hi-NRG – the sound of gay dancefloors worldwide that was later co-opted by Stock, Aitken & Waterman and sold on as pre-teen pop.

2010, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries, Black Cat, →ISBN, page 81:

During the late 1980s Italo began fading away and some groups moved into the Hi-NRG genre, which combined high-paced Italo and house.

(music) A style of uptempo disco or electronic dance music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the late 1970s.


wizard rock

At this point, he swears, he had never heard of Harry and the Potters or any wizard rock.

2008, Melissa Anelli, Harry, A History, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 128:

In 2002, the first wizard rock band, Harry and the Potters, formed.

2008, Susan Gunelius, Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 122:

An example of this can been seen in the ways the HPA members present participated in wizard rock performances that were broadcasted through the video feed.

2014, Jennifer Terrell, “The Harry Potter Alliance: Sociotechnical Contexts of Digitally Mediated Activism”, in Martha McCaughey, editor, Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web, Routledge, →ISBN, page 49:

A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series.


wrock

There are, at present, dozens of these “wizard rock” or “wrock” bands, some of which tour nationally and internationally performing at small clubs, libraries and Harry Potter conferences and other special events.

2007, Racheline Maltese, The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias & Particularities, Volume 1, Sterling & Ross Publishers, →ISBN, page 175:

Not all wrock is punk wrock. There's plenty of stylistic diversity in the scene, which ranges from the electric girl pop of the Parselmouths to the darkly gleaming hip-hop of Swish and Flick.

2009 July 20, Lev Grossman, “The Boy Who Rocked”, in Time:

The phenomenon of wrock (wizard rock) within Harry Potter fandom has not yet produced mainstream crossovers.

2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 78:

(fandom slang) A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series.


Trock

Blend of Time Lord + rock, after the pattern of wrock.

Allegra is more of an indie upstart, "though (she's) one of the people who always comes up when you talk about Trock," says Perry Michael Simon, who edits "The Nerdist," comedian Chris Hardwick's popular, geek-centric website.

2011 December 14, Christopher Borrelli, “Allegra Rosenberg is all plugged in, ready to Trock”, in Chicago Tribune:

One of the more interesting activities is the writing of “Trock,” or Timelord rock, a genre of music well known among the show's fans that celebrates the show and its characters.

2012 December 26, Veronica Austin, “New club celebrates science fiction”, in The Issaquah Press, page B6:

The originators of the Trock phenomenon, Chameleon Circuit's ode to the TARDIS is a delightfully retro-eighties-sounding jaunt, Gary Numan with an even more one-track mind than the original.

2013, Dave Thompson, Doctor Who FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Famous Time Lord in the Universe, Applause Theatre and Cinema Bokos, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) A genre of music produced by fans of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, characterized by lyrics about its characters, settings, and plot elements.


Ringnut

From ring + nut, by analogy with wingnut.

27. Sit next to a ringnut and ask "so what's the deal with the ring?" every time it comes on the screen

2003 December 22, toto, “Fun for non-Tolkien fans (was Re: DON'T PUT SPOILERS IN SUBJECT LINES)”, in misc.kids (Usenet):

And to borrow a LotR reference for a moment -- and forgive me, 'cause I'm just a casual fan of the LotR movies, not a Ringnut -- Emily is Bilbo to Lorelai's Frodo and Rory's Sam.

2004 March 18, Rob Jensen, “Re: Yesterday episode”, in alt.tv.gilmore-girls (Usenet):

And I'm sure I'll get plenty of hate mail for single-handedly declaring all Ringnuts and Jackson fanboys are losers when I'm the guy spending time writing a review to post on the Internet, but hey, I never said I wasn't a hypocrite.

2006 August 26, webmaster@themovieaddict.com, “Retrospective: Dead Alive (1992)”, in rec.arts.movies.reviews (Usenet):

(slang, humorous or derogatory) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.


Ringhead

And Ringheads aren't the only ones who are drawn to Wagner: only Hitler and Shakespeare have attracted so many biographers, analysts and apologists.

2005 August 7, Melinda Bargreen, “Ringheads have fiery devotion”, in The Seattle Times:

Ringheads, also known as Wagnolaters, often travel the world to hear the cycle, reserving special devotion for Bayreuth, Germany, where Wagner’s own theater stands.

2008 April 10, Daniel J. Wakin, “‘Ring’ Fans and the Met Lock Horns Over Ticket Rule”, in The New York Times:

Sherwin Sloan retired early as an ophthalmologist to pursue an obsession that bestowed another title — leader of the "Ringheads," a nickname for fans of Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle known as "The Ring."

2010 June 5, Valerie J. Nelson, “Wagner fan led 'Ringheads'”, in Chicago Tribune:

(slang) A fan of the opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner.


Wagnerite

Coordinate term: Wagnerism

The magic and charm of Bayreuth will never vanish. It is an experience every music lover in general and every Wagnerite in particular owes to himself at least once in a lifetime.

1999 August 23, Michael Ajzenstadt, “Bayreuth's magic endures”, in The Jerusalem Post:

As always, this year's 30 performances were sold out well before curtain time, with nearly 60,000 Wagnerites paying hundreds of euros for the best tickets.

2005 July 31, George Jahn, “Wagner festival attracts stars and opera lovers”, in Deseret News:

Herrmann, like many Wagnerites, started listening to opera as a youngster: "My father played the old 78 rpm recordings for me, and had me read the Edda [Old Norse sagas, one of Wagner's major sources for his 'Ring']."

An admirer of the German composer Richard Wagner or his work.


vilancete

Borrowed from Old Spanish villancete, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”), whence also Portuguese vilão.

(music, poetry) villancico (traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song)


歌劇院

/kɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛn⁵¹/

/kɔː⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚² jyːn²²⁻³⁵/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴⁻³² ĩ³³/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɪk̚⁴⁻³² ĩ³³/

/kɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛn⁵¹/

/kɔː⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚² jyːn²²⁻³⁵/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴⁻³² ĩ³³/

/kua⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɪk̚⁴⁻³² ĩ³³/


aggrotech

Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal. Yes, it can be quite confusing.

2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, page 37:

[…] a substantial offering of futurepop (e.g., Covenant, Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Bezerk), a smattering of aggrotech (e.g. Suicide Commando, Combichrist), and a number of other subgenres.

2015, Isabella van Elferen, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture:

A genre of hard electronic dance music influenced by industrial music.


nu gaze

A form of alternative rock music originating in the 2000s and drawing influence from the shoegazing scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s.


P-Funk

Blend of parliament + funkadelic, from the names of two of the original bands associated with this style of music.

(music) A style of funk music associated with the Parliament-Funkadelic collective in the 1970s and early 1980s.


kaseko

Ultimately from French casser le corps ("break the body"), referring to a swift dance during the period when slavery was legal in the region.

A musical genre from Suriname, a fusion of African, European and American styles.


baroque pop

(music) A subgenre of pop music that incorporates elements of classical music.


呂劇

/ly²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/lɵy̯¹³ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ly²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/lɵy̯¹³ kʰɛːk̚²/

(opera) Lü opera (a variety of Chinese opera from the eastern province of Shandong, China)


婺劇

/u⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/mou̯²² kʰɛːk̚²/

/u⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/mou̯²² kʰɛːk̚²/

(opera) wuju, a form of Chinese opera from Jinhua, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, China (also performed in northeastern Jiangxi province)


道白

/tɑʊ̯⁵¹ paɪ̯³⁵/

/tɑʊ̯⁵¹ paɪ̯³⁵/


評劇

/pʰiŋ³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/pʰɪŋ²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

/pʰiŋ³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/pʰɪŋ²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

(opera) Pingju (a form of Chinese opera)


甌劇

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/ɐu̯⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/ɐu̯⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

(opera) Ouju, a form of Chinese opera from Wenzhou


xote

Borrowed from German schottisch (“Scottish”).

(Brazil) a Brazilian dance and music subgenre associated with forró

(South Brazil) a dance and music genre of South Brazil

(dated) schottische; schottisch (a lively dance similar to polka)


spouge

A genre of music that originated in Barbados, a fusion of ska and calypso.


surf rock

A style of rock music stylised by a fast tempo, and a melody played by a saxophone or electric guitar


sunshine pop

(music) A pop music genre originating in the United States in the mid-1960s as an offshoot of the California Sound, and characterized by a cheerful attitude, warm sounds, prominent vocal harmonies, and sophisticated production.


J-Pop

de-noun

J-Pop m (strong, genitive J-Pops or J-Pop, no plural)

J-Pops (genitive)
J-Pop (genitive)
J-Pop (nominative singular)
J-Pops (genitive singular)
J-Pop (genitive singular)
J-Pop (dative singular)
J-Pop (accusative singular)

/ˈd͡ʒɛɪ̯pɔp/

English J-Pop/J-pop and Japanese J-POP (J-POP)


K-Pop

K-Pop m (strong, genitive K-Pops or K-Pop, no plural)

K-Pops (genitive)
K-Pop (genitive)
K-Pop (nominative singular)
K-Pops (genitive singular)
K-Pop (genitive singular)
K-Pop (dative singular)
K-Pop (accusative singular)


freakbeat

From freak + beat, coined by English music journalist Philip Lloyd-Smee.

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The couple had already put in the hard yards: Fred started out in '60s freakbeat combos The Weeds and Lollipop Shoppe, with Toody joining him in early '80s punk trio The Rats.

2021 December, Jon Dale, “Dead Moon fever!”, in Uncut, →ISSN, page 8:

A genre of hard-driving British rock music, often from the 1960s and associated with a mod following.


kaiso

en-noun

kaiso (countable and uncountable, plural kaisos)

An individual musical work in this style.


deep house

A style of house music, typically with complex melodies and soulful vocals.


vaporwave

vapourwave (alternative)
Vaporwave (alternative)

Largely ignored by the mainstream press, vaporwave has instead flourished on websites such as Bandcamp and SoundCloud and on Reddit […] Because vaporwave exists almost entirely outside the sphere of PR and the music industry at large, it has tremendous “underground” appeal. […] Vaporwave is critical of Western culture's preoccupation with the past, but it is not the only art form to call our collective regression into question.

2016, Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:

Vaporwave arose in reaction to huge economic and social forces that are still very much a part of our lives: globalization, runaway consumerism, and manufactured nostalgia chief among them.

2016 August 18, “How Vaporwave Was Created Then Destroyed by the Internet”, in Esquire:

Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.

2019 January 8, Kate Carraway, “How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage”, in New York Times:

The haunting affect of Vaporwave's ghostly music is clearly seductive to a political moment which revels in dystopia, the golden years of the 90s and the sounds of the 90s: financial boom, pedestalled American Dreams and […]

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

(music, art) A genre of electronic music and visual arts style that emerged in the early 2010s. As a musical genre, it evolved from chillwave and seapunk with influences from lounge music, elevator music, smooth jazz, and 1980s dance-pop. As an aesthetic, it is influenced by 1990s web design and digital art, anime, and cyberpunk.


spacesynth

A style of synthesizer-based disco music with futuristic themes.


Balearic beat

(music) A style of DJ-led electronic dance music associated with the nightclubs of Ibiza.


electronic music

electronic music (usually uncountable, plural electronic musics)

(music) A type of music that employs electronic musical instruments and other electronic technology in its production.


電子音樂

ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄗˇ ㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ

дяньцзы иньюэ

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/tiːn²² t͡siː³⁵ jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

/tʰi̯en⁵⁵ t͡sɨ³¹ im²⁴⁻¹¹ ŋok̚⁵/

/tʰi̯en⁵⁵ t͡sɨ³¹ (j)im²⁴⁻¹¹ ŋok̚⁵/

/tiɛn³³⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡak̚⁴/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻²² ɡak̚⁴/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻²² ɡak̚¹²¹/

/tiɛn³³⁻²¹ t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡak̚⁴/

/tiɛn⁴¹⁻²² t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ im³³ ɡak̚²⁴/

/tiaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ⁵²⁻³⁵ im³³⁻²³ ɡauʔ⁴/

/tieŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ⁵²⁻³⁵ im³³⁻²³ ɡauʔ⁴/

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/tiːn²² t͡siː³⁵ jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

/tʰi̯en⁵⁵ t͡sɨ³¹ im²⁴⁻¹¹ ŋok̚⁵/

/tʰi̯en⁵⁵ t͡sɨ³¹ (j)im²⁴⁻¹¹ ŋok̚⁵/

/tiɛn³³⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡak̚⁴/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻²² ɡak̚⁴/

/tiɛn²²⁻²¹ t͡su⁵³⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻²² ɡak̚¹²¹/

/tiɛn³³⁻²¹ t͡su⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ im⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡak̚⁴/

/tiɛn⁴¹⁻²² t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ im³³ ɡak̚²⁴/

/tiaŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ⁵²⁻³⁵ im³³⁻²³ ɡauʔ⁴/

/tieŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sɯ⁵²⁻³⁵ im³³⁻²³ ɡauʔ⁴/


重金屬音樂

ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄕㄨˇ ㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ

чжунцзиньшу иньюэ

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰʊŋ¹³ kɐm⁵⁵ sʊk̚² jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/t͡sʰʊŋ¹³ kɐm⁵⁵ sʊk̚² jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/


djent

Onomatopoeia for a high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound; coined by guitarist Fredrik Thordendal (b. 1970) of the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah.

[…] they later evolved into a progressive technical metal band with elements of mathcore and djent.

2015, Brian Giffin, Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal, page 2232:

(neologism) A style of progressive heavy metal music characterized by rhythmic and technical complexity, and typically featuring heavily distorted, palm-muted guitar chords, syncopated, downtuned riffs, and polyrhythms alongside virtuoso soloing.


microhouse

microhouse (countable and uncountable, plural microhouses)

From micro- + house, in the music sense attributed to Philip Sherburne.


power metal

A subgenre of heavy metal music, often with anthem-like songs with fantasy-based subject matter and a strong, dramatic chorus.


喜歌劇

/ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹ kɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hei̯³⁵ kɔː⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹ kɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hei̯³⁵ kɔː⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/


hillbilly music

(historical, to the 1930s, US) A mix of Appalachian, Southern and western music, performed by rural white people in a range of styles for commercial recording in the early United States popular music industry; the precursor to country music.


third stream

Coined by composer Gunther Schuller in 1957.

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thirdstream (alternative)
Third Stream (alternative)

The movement they brought into existence, "Third Stream", was for the most part an effort by jazz composers and musicians to adopt some of the conventions […]

2001, Ellen Koskoff, editor, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America, Garland Publishing, page 335:

(music) A form of jazz created in the 1950s, performed in ensembles in a style influenced by Western classical music, such as by using musical notation and eschewing improvisation.


hardbop

Benny Green Trio (through Saturday) The pianist Benny Green is an astute pupil of the hardbop tradition, as he reconfirms on his fine new album, “Live in Santa Cruz.”

2015 June 25, “Jazz Listings for June 26-July 2”, in New York Times:


hard bop

A subgenre of jazz music that extends bebop with influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues.


anarcopunk

(music) anarcho-punk (punk rock with an anarchist theme)


rock alternativo

(music) alternative rock (subgenre of rock music)


country alternativo

(music) alternative country (subgenre of country music influenced by other styles)


post-disco

Coordinate term: predisco

Not many artists could pull off such a variety of styles (funk, post-disco, rock, easy listening, ballads) back then.

a. 2008, M. Heyliger, A State-of-the-Art Pop Album:

Bridging the so-called death of disco and the birth of house, all this early-to-mid-'80s music lacks a name beyond drably functional and neutral terms like "dance" or "club music." Post-disco is better because this was music created by and for people […]who refused to accept the official decree of disco’s demise.

2009 May 29, Simon Reynolds, “Grunge's Long Shadow”, in Slate:

(music) A genre of dance music formulated in the late 1970s, after a backlash against disco.


soul-blues

(music) A genre of vocal soul music with a gospel-influenced bluesy sound.


post-bop

postbop (alternative)
post bop (alternative)

(jazz) A style of jazz derived from hard bop but influenced by more traditional jazz styles like swing.


punk-blues

(music) A genre of punk rock that is influenced by the blues.


punk-jazz

(music, jazz) A genre of punk rock that is influenced by jazz.


Baltimore club

(music) A genre of staccato, dance-oriented house music associated with Baltimore, Maryland.


brown-eyed soul

(music) A genre of soul music characteristically performed by Latinos, mainly in southern California in the early 1960s.


club blues

(music) A genre of popular blues music intended to be played in nightclubs.


Miami bass

(music) A genre of hip hop dance music associated with raunchy lyrics, deep bass rhythms and the area of South Florida.


contemporary R&B

(music) A genre of modern popular hip hop dance music influenced by funk and pop music.


psych folk

You have possibly heard the terms “psych folk” (sometimes applied to artists in the vein of Devendra Banhart) or “psych country” (which is vaguely similar to what used to be called “outlaw country”) or “psych rock” (which is what Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols call his band's sound in the documentary DIG!.)

[2005 May, Chuck Klosterman, “The Rock Lexicon”, in SPIN, page 60:

More recently, a second wave of psych folk bands have surfaced, influenced by and connected to the music of Keenan's New Weird America.

2016, Ross Hair, Thomas Ruys Smith, editors, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 203:

(music) A genre of folk music influenced by psychedelic rock and possessing a dark, sinister tone.


psychedelic rock

The album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) first used psychedelic to describe music; the band The 13th Floor Elevators is sometimes credited with coining the term.

(music) A genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, jazz, folk music, electronic music and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.


Paisley Underground

(music) A genre of psychedelic alternative rock mostly associated with California in the 1980s.


Piedmont blues

(music) A genre of guitar-based blues from the East Coast of the United States.


post-grunge

postgrunge (alternative)
post grunge (alternative)

(music) A genre of grunge music influenced by pop music and heavy metal.


hardcore punk

(music) A particularly fast and intense form of punk rock.


post-punk revival

(music) A modern genre of post-punk influenced by indie rock and other modern styles.


indie rock

Coordinate term: indie pop

alternative rock
alternative rock#English

(music) A genre of modern rock, originally synonymous with alternative rock but now referring to a specific style of popular rock music.


progressive bluegrass

(music) A genre of bluegrass that subverts tradition by adding drums, electric guitar and other modern elements of popular music.


psychedelic soul

(music) A genre of popular soul music influenced by psychedelic rock and funk.


rap rock

(music) A genre of rock music that uses elements of hip-hop, especially rapping.


roots-rock

[…] door finds him or herself a millionaire superstar and gradually tax avoidance seems more important than roots rock.

1977, Marxism Today, volumes 21–23, London: Communist Party of Great Britain, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:

They are favored by most blues, jazz, country, and roots-rock guitarists.

1980, Will Schmid, Hal Leonard Guitar Method, complete edition, Winona, Minn.: Hal Leonard Pub. Corp., →OCLC, page 140:

Doug [Clifford] was the well-known drummer in Creedence Clearwater Revival throughout their phenomenally fruitful existence as one of America's first genuine roots-rock bands.

2006, Bob Cianci, Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties Revised, 2nd edition, Milwaukee, Wis.: Hal Leonard Pub. Corp., →ISBN, page 192:

(music) A genre of popular rock music influenced by Americana and roots music.


sacred harp

From the name of a songbook first published in 1844, The Sacred Harp.

(music) A genre of Christian music based on shape-note singing.


Southern rock

(music) A genre of rock music originating from the Southern United States with influences from blues and country music.


speed metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal characterized by an extremely swift, rhythmic style.


drone metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal that is influenced by drone music.


alt-rock

Launching a startup in 2016 is akin to assembling an alt-rock band in 1996 or protesting the Vietnam War in 1971—an act of youthful rebellion gone conformist.

2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:


hill country blues

(music) A genre of country blues from Mississippi.


country blues

(music) A genre of blues with a rural style and elements from folk music.


Chicago blues

(music) A genre of popular electric guitar-based blues associated with Chicago.


swamp blues

(music) A genre of blues influenced by Cajun and Creole music and associated with Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


gospel-blues

(music) A genre of blues with Christian lyrics and influenced by gospel music.


electric blues

(music) Any genre of blues that uses the electric guitar.


classic female blues

(music) The style of popular vocal blues performed by women in the early 20th century.


Texas blues

(music) A genre of blues that uses electric guitars and power riffs, associated with Texas.


cool jazz

(music, jazz) A genre of jazz associated with a light, calm sound and a West Coast aesthetic.


Cubop

(jazz) A genre of Afro-Cuban jazz influenced by bebop.


Afro-Cuban jazz

(jazz) A genre of jazz strongly influenced by Cuban dance music like mambo and the Cuban clave rhythm.


modal jazz

(music, jazz) A genre of jazz that uses chord progressions as a harmonic framework.


art punk

(music) A genre of punk rock influenced by art music and art rock.


Celtic rock

(music) A genre of Celtic music influenced by rock music and punk rock.


Celtic metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal influenced by Celtic music and punk rock.


folk-metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal influenced by folk music and various traditional musical forms.


Celtic punk

Best exemplified by the English band Pogues (which was fronted by the legendary Shane MacGowan) in the 1980s, Celtic punk at its best successfully blended traditional Celtic music and punk rock with some fascinating results.

2022, Rich Weidman, Punk: The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 80:

(music) A genre of punk rock influenced by Celtic rock.


folk punk

(music) A genre of usually acoustic punk rock influenced by folk music.


funk-metal

(music) A genre of funk that combines it with elements of thrash metal.


garage punk

(music) A genre of indie rock influenced by garage rock and hardcore punk.


glam metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal from the 1980s influenced by glam rock.


horror punk

(music) A genre of hardcore punk with influences from Gothic rock, characterized by a lyrical connection to horror movies.


indie folk

(music) A genre of folk music influenced by indie rock.


indie pop

Indie pop tends to be “more melodic and less loud” than indie rock, which is often more raucous.

2016, Geoff King, editor, A Companion to American Indie Film, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 110:

(music) A genre of pop music that has little mainstream appeal and is influenced by alternative rock or indie rock.


industrial rock

(music) A genre of rock music influenced by industrial music.


industrial metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal influenced by industrial music.


Krautrock

de-noun

Krautrock m (strong, genitive Krautrocks, no plural)

Krautrocks (genitive)
Krautrock (nominative singular)
Krautrocks (genitive singular)
Krautrock (dative singular)
Krautrock (accusative singular)

Kraut + Rock; unclear if coined in German or borrowed from English.


melodic death metal

(music) A genre of death metal with a melodic and harmonic riffing style.


noise rock

(music) A genre of indie rock influenced by noise music.


Viking metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal featuring lyrical and visual themes focused on the Vikings, and influenced by black metal, folk-metal and Nordic traditional music.


unblack metal

As already noted, the black metal-related church arsons in Norway in the early 1990s also spurred the development of unblack metal.

2015, Marcus Moberg, Christian Metal: History, Ideology, Scene, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 51:

(music) A genre of black metal marked by Christian lyrics.


oi!

Synonym of oi (a genre of British punk rock)


dansband

(music) A genre of Swedish popular music influenced by rock and roll, schlager and other styles.


country-rock

Synonym of country rock (only the musical sense)


apala

(music) A genre of Yoruba Nigerian popular music based on percussion.


isicathamiya

(music) A genre of popular South African vocal music derived from the Zulu genre called mbube.


jùjú

(music) A genre of popular Nigerian music that comes from traditional Yoruba percussion traditions.


semba

Borrowed from Portuguese semba, from Kimbundu semba (“belly-bump”), from Proto-Bantu [Term?]. Doublet of samba.

(music) A genre of traditional music and dance from Angola.


semba

Borrowed from Kimbundu semba (“belly-bump”).

bor+

(music) semba (genre of traditional music and dance from Angola)


kizomba

Borrowed from Kimbundu kizomba (“party”).

(music) A genre of Angolan popular music derived from the traditional semba dance.


marrabenta

Possibly from Portuguese rebentar (“to break”) (arrabentar in the local vernacular).

(music) A genre of popular Mozambican dance music.


palm-wine

The top people and elders had monopolized it, leaving the young people with two kegs of sour palm-wine. As everyone knew, Lagos palm-wine was really no palm-wine at all but water – an infinite dilution.

1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 64:


seggae

(music) A genre of sega music that combines it with reggae and other non-native influences.


bhangramuffin

(music) A genre of raggamuffin dancehall influenced by bhangra or other music from the Indian subcontinent.


electronic dance music

Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.

2014, William Forde Thompson, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia:

(music) A field of modern popular music, encompassing house, techno and other genres of percussive dance music.


ambient house

(music) A genre of house music influenced by ambient.


luk thung

Borrowed from Thai ลูกทุ่ง (lûuk-tûng, literally “rural”).

After Pumpuang's death, the top luk thung slot was occupied by ‘Got’ Chakrapand Arbkornburi, whose switch from pop to full-time luk thung brought many younger listeners to the style, while the reigning female singer was Sunaree Ratchasima, but she has been superseded by the perkier Arpaporn Nakornsawan and, more recently, by Ying Lee and Tai Orathai.

2023, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Thailand, Apa Publications Limited, →ISBN:

(music) A genre of Thai popular music in a rural style.


cadence-lypso

(music) A genre of popular dance music that combines cadence rampa with calypso.


chutney-soca

(music) A genre of chutney music influenced by soca.


bluegrass-jazz

(music, jazz) A genre of bluegrass influenced by jazz.


lover's rock

Lover's Rock (alternative)
lovers rock (alternative)
Lover's rock (alternative)
lovers' rock (alternative)

(music) A genre of reggae influenced by soul music and modern pop.


reggae fusion

(music) A genre of reggae that mixes reggae and/or dancehall with other genres, such as pop, rock, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, funk, soul, disco, electronic and latin.


huayno

(music) A genre of Andean popular music most closely associated with Peru.


ethereal wave

(music) A genre of darkwave music influenced by Gothic rock.


jazz mugham

(jazz, music) A genre that combines mugham with jazz.


contemporary gospel

It wasn't too many years ago that contemporary gospel music was hard to find. Now, there's evidence of it on all sides— on television, radio, stage, in homes and in automobiles.

1980 September 27, Paul Baker, “A Time-Honored Message Moves to a New Beat”, in Billboard, volume 92, number 39, page G-8+:

(music) A style of popular contemporary R&B with Christian lyrics and influences from gospel music.


swamp pop

(music) A genre of Louisiana pop music influenced by country and local Cajun and Creole musical elements.


routiner

Around the turn of the century, however, "routiner" or "head" music and "ear" musicians began to appear at parades. This was music more exclusively rooted in black traditions, played by men who often could not read music but who instead improvised.

1999, Reid MITCHELL, ALL ON A MARDI GRAS DAY, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 153:

Tom Albert, present during this interview, stated that Vincent was at first a routiner (i.e., playing by rote or ear) [...]

2005, Lawrence Gushee, Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN:

It seemed to the uptown routiners that aurality had its own set of advantages, and in the absence of strong evidence to the contrary it is hard to argue against them.

2006, Thomas Brothers, Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 236:

The rougher bands, like Kid Ory's or Frankie Dusen's Eagle Band, thrived; they were the “routiners,” the improvisers who worked from their ear rather than reading music.

2014, Dennis McNally, On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom, Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 141:

(jazz) A jazz musician who plays by ear (i.e. not using sheet music, but rather following along with the band and memorizing music when needed).


megapop

Word that the Icelandic iconoclast had retwiddled the results of her in-studio tryst with Mr. Mosely dashed any hopes that she'd abandon herself to horny megapop escapism.

2007, SPIN, volume 23, number 6, page 90:

The last remaining bankable megapop titan hanging out with an Internet-fueled hip-hop star — what a world!

2015 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles”, in New York Times:

(music, informal) Highly successful mainstream pop music.


chouval bwa

From Antillean Creole chouval bwa (literally “wood horse”).

bor

(music, Martinique) A genre of rural folk music that originated on the slave plantations of Martinique.


gwo ka

(music, Guadeloupe) A type of drum and a genre of music associated with it, from the folk culture of the island of Guadeloupe.


cariso

(music, Trinidad and Tobago) A genre of folk music from Trinidad and Tobago, an ancestor to modern calypso, performed by mainly female singers called chantwells.


Big Drum

(music, dance, Caribbean) A genre of music and dance, and an associated festival tradition, found in many islands of the Lesser Antilles.


pichakaree

(music, Trinidad and Tobago) A genre of Indo-Trinidadian folk music, sung in a mixture of English, Hindi, and Bhojpuri.


bouyon

From Antillean Creole bouyon (literally “stew”).

Skinny also pointed out that because the artistes “are leaning on the strength and production value of a Dominican,” people are calling out the song to be that of bouyon music.

2019 January 11, “Skinny Fabulous dampens controversy over labeling of bouyon as soca”, in Dominica News Online:

(music, Dominica) A genre of popular music from Dominica.


ditti

(music, Antigua and Barbuda) A genre of traditional music from Antigua and Barbuda; benna, a style of calypso-like music.


hiplife

Up the block at Nananom, a tiny music and sundries store, all the hiplife CDs were sold out.

2015 August 6, Liz Robbins, “Hiplife, a Sound Imported From Ghana, Arrives on a New York Stage”, in New York Times:

A Ghanaian style of music that fuses highlife and hip-hop.


mood music

Mood music on record had one important distinction: it functioned as Muzak's id. Muzak was confined mostly to moderate tempo arrangements with few if any distractions. But mood music indulged in volatile mood swings forbidden in the workplace: happy to grim, frantic to narcoleptic, sexy to robotic.

2004, Joseph Lanza, Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong, revised and expanded edition, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 69:

(music) Any of various styles of light popular music.


ヘビメタ

ヘビーメタル ヘビーメタル#Japanese

Short for ヘビーメタル (hebī metaru, “heavy metal”).


sertanejo

pt-noun

sertanejo m (plural sertanejos, feminine sertaneja, feminine plural sertanejas)

sertanejos (plural)
sertaneja (feminine)
sertanejas (feminine plural)

From sertão (“rural, semi-arid area”) + -ejo.

(music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)


antiópera

/ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈɔ.pe.ɾɐ/

/ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃiˈɔ.pe.ɾɐ/

/ˌɐ̃.tiˈɔ.pɨ.ɾɐ/

(opera) antiopera (an opera that deliberately avoids typical conventions)


Named after C86, a compilation cassette released in 1986 by NME magazine on which independent rock featured heavily. The album title itself was a play on the labelling and length of blank compact cassettes—commonly C60, C90 and C120—combined with the year 1986.

Ralske, who studied jazz trumpet at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, moved to London around the time the whole C86 scene (with bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine) was thriving.

From the latest new releases to rare collectables, including indie, punk, grunge, C86 etc.

1999, advertisement for, “www.indiemusic.co.uk”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, page 72:

The same papers that had championed C86 in the middle of the decade then spent years writing off small, pop-oriented bands such as Belle and Sebastian — particularly if they had an air of mimsy or femininity.

2007, Scott Plagenhoef, Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 57:

(music) A genre of British rock music most prominent in the late eighties and early nineties, with a lo-fi aesthetic, unconventional instrumentation and romantic lyrics.


hardstep

(music) A subgenre of drum and bass music characterised by a gritty production style and urban feel.


alalá

¡Ai, o alalá, miña santa, cántase cando se chora; chórase cando se canta!

1961, Diccionario enciclopédico gallego-castellano, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 99:

Alas! the alalá, my darling, is sung when crying; it's cried when singing!

[…], un alalá ignorado polo resto dos homes.

2014, Francisco X. Fernández Naval, Maribel Longueira, As crebas: Outro xeito de andar ao mar, Baía Edicións, page 73:

[…] , an alalá ignored by the rest of the men.

Catro vellos mariñeiros
todos metidos nun bote
voga, voga, mariñeiro
vamos pra Viveiro
xa se ve San Roque;
voga, voga, mariñeiro
vamos pra Viveiro
xa se ve San Roque.
Ai, lalelo, ai, lalalelo!
Ai, lalelo, ai, lalalá!
Ai, lalelo, ai, lalalelo!

Catro vellos mariñeiros (traditional song)

(music) a traditional type of chant from Galicia, characterised by the use of meaningless vocalisations at the refrain or chorus


trap music

After rapper T.I.'s 2003 album Trap Muzik, dealing with themes of street life and drug dealing. See trap (“a place where drugs are sold”).

A subgenre of hip-hop that originated in the early 1990s in the southern United States, typified by bleak themes, aggressive lyrics, and distinctive synthesizers and drums.


scratchband

en-noun

scratchband (countable and uncountable, plural scratchbands)

(uncountable, dated, music, Virgin Islands) The genre of music such musicians create; scratch, quelbe or fungi music.


bluester

A musician who plays the blues or music influenced by the blues.


rockers reggae

The word rockers is variously attributed either to UK youth slang for reggae fans or to the name of a sound system owned by Augustus Pablo.

(music) A mid-1970s genre of reggae characterized by a melodious style and an upbeat drum-focused sound, influenced by rock, funk and other American and British styles.


roots reggae

(music) A genre of reggae with a rootsy, folk-influenced style and a lyrical focus on social, political and spiritual (especially Rastafarian) themes.


Nyabinghi

Most likely from a Great Lakes Bantu language. Compare Tooro -nya- (“pertaining to”) and ingi (“rich in; plentiful in”). The spelling with -gh- may reflect an early spelling of /ŋɡ/ to distinguish it from the simple /ŋ/.

(Rastafari, music) A style of music and a rhythm associated with the sect and ceremony, and with reggae music.


nyabinghi

From Nyabinghi, the name of a legendary Ugandan/Rwandan tribe queen.

(Rastafari, music) A style of music and a rhythm originally associated with the Nyabinghi sect of Rastafarians, but now more generally known as a component of reggae, especially roots reggae.


polkabilly

(music) A music genre that combines polka with punk, rockabilly and other genres of rock music.


zouk love

(music) A genre of popular zouk influenced by reggae fusion, contemporary R&B and other styles, and with a focus on romantic lyrics.


jazz fusion

(music) A style of jazz music that is influenced by rock music, funk, rhythm and blues and other styles.


jazz-rock

(music, jazz) A genre of rock music heavily influenced by jazz.


jazz-rock

jazz-rock (nominative singular)
jazz-rocka (genitive singular)
jazz-rockowi (dative singular)
jazz-rocka (accusative singular)
jazz-rockiem (instrumental singular)
jazz-rocku (locative singular)
jazz-rocku (singular vocative)

/ˈd͡ʐɛs ˈrɔk/

Unadapted borrowing from English jazz-rock.


jazz-funk

Meanwhile, for those who doubted the sheer breadth of music Glastonbury offers, a short walk took you from Thundercat’s exploratory, spaced-out take on jazz-funk – where the smooth sound of yacht rock crashed into extended passages of improvisation to thrilling effect – to the aforementioned Craig David, clad entirely in white and padding out his set by the simple expedient of playing other people’s records and singing along to them, and thence to Liam Gallagher on the comeback trail.

2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:

(music, jazz) A genre of funk heavily influenced by jazz.


rock de arena

(music) arena rock (rock music made to be played in large venues)


rock arte

(music) art rock (experimental, intellectual rock music)


candombe

en-noun

candombe (countable and uncountable, plural candombes)

"Candombe is the only original folkloric music in Uruguay, and it is a product of the black community," said Julio Olivera, an artist and head of the Association for the Development of Afro-Uruguayan Art and Culture.

1993 May 7, Nathaniel C. Nash, quoting Julio Olivera, “Uruguay Is on Notice: Blacks Want Recognition”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The 10 song-and-dance numbers include candombe rhythms, with African roots, but the music is mostly murga, Uruguayan carnival sounds.

1999 August 1, Alvin Klein, “Cheating Death, Uruguayan Style”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(music) A musical style of Uruguay originating from African slaves.


quizomba

bor+

Borrowed from Kimbundu kizomba (“party”)

(music) kizomba (genre of Angolan popular music derived from the traditional semba dance)


古典音樂

ㄍㄨˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄧㄣ ㄩㄝˋ

гудянь иньюэ

/ku²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/kuː³⁵ tiːn³⁵ jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

/ku³¹ ti̯en³¹ im²⁴⁻¹¹ ŋok̚⁵/

/ku²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ in⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/

/kuː³⁵ tiːn³⁵ jɐm⁵⁵ ŋɔːk̚²/

/ku³¹ ti̯en³¹ im²⁴⁻¹¹ ŋok̚⁵/


pornobilly

Inventor of pornobilly, Buck would come on stage dressed only in a “cowboy hat, pink cowboy boots and a toilet-plunger codpiece”.

2000, Brian Hinton, Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville, Sanctuary, →ISBN, page 423:

If you like Buck Naked, check out Jon Wayne's 'Texas Funeral' if you haven't done so already. Not highly offensive pornobilly, but highly offensive in a drunken Texas way.

2004 September 26, REP [username], “Re: what's everyone listening to lately?”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

Of course, there's a tendency to dismiss Buck and the Boys, pornobilly as a cheap novelty.

2005, Kim Cooper, David Smay, editors, Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:

A genre of rockabilly music with raunchy lyrics and stylings.


khoomei

Borrowed from Tuvan хөөмей (xöömey) and Mongolian хөөмий (xöömii), ᠬᠥᠭᠡᠮᠡᠢ (kögemei).

khoomii (alternative)
hoomei (alternative)
Hoomi (alternative)
hoomi (alternative)
Hoomii (alternative)
khöömei (alternative)
khöömii (alternative)
xoomij (alternative)
khoomi (alternative)
Xöömij (alternative)
höömii (alternative)
Khoomei (alternative)
Xoomei (alternative)
khomei (alternative)
xöömii (alternative)
xöömei (alternative)
khoomey (alternative)
xoomii (alternative)
Hoomei (alternative)

horsehead fiddle
horsehead fiddle#English

(music) A style of throat singing, often accompanied by the horsehead fiddle, from Mongolia and eastern Siberia.


metalbilly

en-noun

metalbilly (countable and uncountable, plural metalbillies)

(uncountable, music) A music genre that combines heavy metal with rockabilly.


MPB

A MPB é atualmente uma das grandes fontes para a compreensão da cultura brasileira explorada pelos "brasilianistas", dentre os quais destacamos Charles Perrone.

1998, Carlos Eduardo Brandão Calvani, Teologia e MPB, Edicoes Loyola, →ISBN, page 109:

(Brazil, music) Initialism of Música Popular Brasileira (“Brazilian popular music”), a musical movement and style in Brazil.


flatpicking

From flat, referring to the plectrum, + picking.

a style of bluegrass acoustic guitar played with a plectrum.


flatpick

en-verb

flatpick (third-person singular simple present flatpicks, present participle flatpicking, simple past and past participle flatpicked)

flatpicks (present singular third-person)
flatpicking (participle present)
flatpicked (participle past)
flatpicked (past)
flat-pick (alternative)

to play acoustic guitar in the flatpicking style.


bailecito

en-noun

bailecito (countable and uncountable, plural bailecitos)

A high point of the group's performance was "Canto Popular," written by Ambar Canales. Using the traditional "bailecito" rhythm of Argentina with Judit Moschkovich playing congas (she's the Argentine, Canales is the Puerto Rican) the piece celebrates the people's song movements of Latin America and all the meetings and exchanges between us.

1982 August 7, Arora Levins-Morales, “Cross Currents: Multi-Cultural Spirit in San Francisco”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

(music) A genre of traditional style of dance music of Bolivia and Northern Argentina in 6/8 time.


江淮戲

ㄐㄧㄤ ㄏㄨㄞˊ ㄒㄧˋ

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ xu̯aɪ̯³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

Jianghuai opera; Huai opera (a form of local Chinese opera from Jiangsu and Shanghai)


arrocha

(Brazil, music) a popular music/dance style that originated in the interior of Bahia


dembow

Borrowed from English dembow, from the song Dem Bow, from Jamaican Creole dem bow (literally “they bow”).

bor

(music) a rhythmic Caribbean music genre, akin to dancehall


digital hardcore

The best recent VC discs start from the relentlessness of gabber and digital hardcore, and yank it in a weirder direction.

1999, SPIN, volume 15, number 3, page 145:

A fast, abrasive music genre that melds hardcore punk with electronica.


潮劇

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡sʰiːu̯²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡sʰiːu̯²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/


tecno

(music) techno (a style of electronic dancing music)


教会ソナタ

ja-noun

教(きょう)会(かい)ソナタ • (kyōkaisonata) ^(←けうくわいソナタ (keukwaisonata)?)

教会ソナタ (canonical)
kyōkaisonata (romanization)
keukwaisonata (romanization)
けうくわいソナタ (hiragana historical)

Compound of 教会 (kyōkai, “church”) + ソナタ (sonata, “sonata”).


דזשאַז

dzhaz (romanization)
דזשעז (alternative)


rocanroll

January–April 2014, Fuellas, issue 219-220, page 7

“Rock and roll is like this”, by Los Inestables, received the prize for best song “in autochthonous Aragonese language” corresponding to the year of 2013.

“O rocanroll ye asinas”, de Los Inestables, rezibió ro premio a ra millor canta “en luenga autoctona aragonesa” correspondién a l’año 2013.


metalgaze

[ˈmɛtɫ̩ˌɡeɪz]

[ˈmɛɾɫ̩ˌɡeɪz]

SanFran metalgaze band Deafheaven deliver New Bermuda to Casbah on Thursday.

2015 October 14, Barnaby Monk, “Deafheaven, a Heartbreaker, Hinds ...and the best of the rest in San Diego clubs this weekend”, in San Diego Reader:

(music) A musical genre derived from heavy metal, with minimalist ambient instrumentation and wall of sound effects.


shitgaze

Finding the sweetness in the shitgaze pile Times New Viking have truly mastered the no-fi game: No matter how they defile their sound (with razor blades, broken glass, tape hiss), they make sure there's bubblegum at the center.

2009, Jessica Suarez, review of Times New Viking Born Again Revisited, SPIN, page 86

A genre of rock music with very heavy distortion and lo-fi recording.


idirchluiche

head

idirchluiche m (genitive singular idirchluiche, nominative plural idirchluichí)

idirchluiche (genitive singular)
idirchluichí (nominative plural)
idirchluiche (indefinite nominative singular)
idirchluichí (indefinite nominative plural)
a idirchluiche (indefinite singular vocative)
a idirchluichí (indefinite plural vocative)
idirchluiche (genitive indefinite singular)
idirchluichí (genitive indefinite plural)
idirchluiche (dative indefinite singular)
idirchluichí (dative indefinite plural)
an t-idirchluiche (definite nominative singular)
na hidirchluichí (definite nominative plural)
an idirchluiche (definite genitive singular)
na n-idirchluichí (definite genitive plural)
leis an idirchluiche (dative definite singular)
don idirchluiche (dative definite singular)
leis na hidirchluichí (dative definite plural)
idirchluiche
n-idirchluiche
hidirchluiche
t-idirchluiche

From idir- (“inter-”) + cluiche (“game”).


Cav and Pag

/ˈkæv ən ˈpæɡ/

(opera, informal) The two one-act operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci presented as a single event.


北管

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ku̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Beiguan (a type of traditional Chinese music that was widespread in southern Fujian and Taiwan)


hate music

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hate music.wav

Music that expresses destructive desires against a demographic.


dreampop

Fast becoming a sensation in the blogosphere, the latest persona of Austin-based Alan Palomo (best known from the electropop outfit Vega), this vaguely melancholy, synth-powered bit of dreampop comes off like a cross between MGMT and Todd Rundgren.

2009 July 18, John Sakamoto, “The Anti-Hit List”, in Toronto Star:


funaná

(music) An accordion-based style of music from Cape Verde.


演歌

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ kɤ⁵⁵/

/jiːn³⁵ kɔː⁵⁵/

/iɛn⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kua⁴⁴/

/iɛn⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kua⁴⁴/

/iɛn¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡaʔ³²/

/iɛn²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡaʔ³²/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ kɤ⁵⁵/

/jiːn³⁵ kɔː⁵⁵/

/iɛn⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kua⁴⁴/

/iɛn⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kua⁴⁴/

/iɛn¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡaʔ³²/

/iɛn²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡaʔ³²/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 演(えん)歌(か) (enka).

2008, 曾俊鴻 (lyrics and music), “單身的演歌”performed by 詹雅雯:

The train of affection hasn't arrived at the station yet; I walk alone. The radio is playing a breakup enka.

kám-chêng lia̍t-chhia bōe kàu-chām ko͘-lâng kiâⁿ, la-lí-o͘h teh hòng-sàng chi̍t tiâu sit-loân ê iàn-gah

感情列車袜到站孤人行 ラジオ在放送一條失戀的演歌

感情列车袜到站孤人行 ラジオ在放送一条失恋的演歌


演歌

Enka, a genre of melodramatic Japanese music.


崑曲

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰiɪk̚³²/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻²² kʰiɪk̚³²/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻²² kʰiɔk̚³²/

/kʰuən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰyɪʔ²¹/

/kʰuən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰioʔ²¹/

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰiɪk̚³²/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻²² kʰiɪk̚³²/

/kʰun⁴⁴⁻²² kʰiɔk̚³²/

/kʰuən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰyɪʔ²¹/

/kʰuən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰioʔ²¹/

Kunqu (a form of Chinese opera that originated in Kunshan, Jiangsu)


崑劇

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

Kunju (a form of Chinese opera that originated in Kunshan, Jiangsu)


崑腔

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰuən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiã²¹/

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰuən⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiã²¹/


崑山腔

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ ʂän⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷʰɐn⁵⁵ saːn⁵⁵ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/


薌劇

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hœːŋ⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/hiɔŋ³³ kiɔk̚²⁴/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚¹²¹/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴/

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hœːŋ⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/hiɔŋ³³ kiɔk̚²⁴/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚¹²¹/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴/

/hiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kiɔk̚⁴/

From 薌／芗 (xiāng), short for 薌江／芗江, an alternative name for Zhangzhou + 劇／剧 (jù, “opera”).

(music) a branch of Taiwanese opera popular in Zhangzhou


川劇

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/


滬劇

/xu⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/wuː²² kʰɛːk̚²/

/ɦu²² d͡ʑiɪʔ⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² d͡ʑiaʔ⁴⁴/

/xu⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/wuː²² kʰɛːk̚²/

/ɦu²² d͡ʑiɪʔ⁴⁴/

/ɦu²² d͡ʑiaʔ⁴⁴/


閩劇

/min²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/mɐn¹³ kʰɛːk̚²/

/mɐn²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ban²⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/bin²⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/min²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/mɐn¹³ kʰɛːk̚²/

/mɐn²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ban²⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

/bin²⁴⁻²² kiɔk̚⁴/

Min opera (a type of Chinese opera originating in the region around Fuzhou)


漢劇

/xän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hɔːn³³ kʰɛːk̚²/

/hɔn⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kʰiak̚¹/

/han²¹⁻⁵³ kiɔk̚⁴/

/xän⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/hɔːn³³ kʰɛːk̚²/

/hɔn⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kʰiak̚¹/

/han²¹⁻⁵³ kiɔk̚⁴/

Han opera (a style of Chinese opera originating in Hubei and popular in some parts of Henan, Shaanxi, and Hunan)


晉劇

/t͡ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡sɵn³³ kʰɛːk̚²/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁵ t͡ɕy⁴⁵/

/t͡ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/t͡sɵn³³ kʰɛːk̚²/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁵ t͡ɕy⁴⁵/

(opera) Jin opera (a style of Chinese opera originating in Shanxi)


梨園戲

/li³⁵ ɥɛn³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

/le²⁴⁻²² hŋ̍²⁴⁻²² hi⁴¹/

/li³⁵ ɥɛn³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

/le²⁴⁻²² hŋ̍²⁴⁻²² hi⁴¹/

(opera) A form of Chinese opera originating in Quanzhou, Fujian.


蒲劇

/pʰu³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/pʰou̯²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

/pʰu³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/pʰou̯²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

(music) Pu opera (a variety of Chinese opera from southern Shanxi, China)


deathgrind

A fusion of death metal and grindcore music.


death 'n' roll

A musical subgenre of death metal with hard rock elements.


yayue

Borrowed from Mandarin 雅樂／雅乐 (yǎyuè, literally “elegant music”). Doublet of gagaku and aak.

zh-m

(music) A form of Chinese ritual music performed at imperial courts since the Zhou Dynasty, and usually associated with Confucianism.


湘劇

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/sœːŋ⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/si̯æn³³ t͡ɕy⁴⁵/

/ɕi̯æn³³ t͡ɕy⁴⁵/

/ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/sœːŋ⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/si̯æn³³ t͡ɕy⁴⁵/

/ɕi̯æn³³ t͡ɕy⁴⁵/

(opera) a form of Chinese opera from Hunan province, most popular in Changsha and Xiangtan


曲劇

/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/kʰʊk̚⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/t͡ɕʰy²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/kʰʊk̚⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

(opera) quju, Chinese opera derived from ballad singing


弋陽腔

/i⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jɪk̚² jœːŋ²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/i⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jɪk̚² jœːŋ²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

(opera) Yiyang qiang, one of the earliest forms of Chinese local opera, originating in the region around Yiyang County in northeastern Jiangxi province.


餘姚腔

/y³⁵ jɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jyː²¹ jiːu̯²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/y³⁵ jɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/jyː²¹ jiːu̯²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

(opera) Yuyao qiang, one of the four major singing styles, originating in Yuyao, Ningbo, northeastern Zhejiang province, east-central China, which was popularly used in local opera forms in the eastern Chinese provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang since the late Ming Dynasty.


海鹽腔

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ jiːm²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ jiːm²¹ hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

(opera) A singing style originating from Haiyan County, Jiaxing, northern Zhejiang province, east-central China, and used in local opera since the late Ming Dynasty.


滇劇

/ti̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/tiːn⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/tʰiːn²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

/ti̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/tiːn⁵⁵ kʰɛːk̚²/

/tʰiːn²¹ kʰɛːk̚²/

(opera) A form of Chinese opera from Yunnan province.


meriyasu

Borrowed from Japanese メリヤス (“a stretchy knit fabric”)

bor+

A style of instrumental music used as scoring in kabuki


甬劇

/jʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

(opera) Ningbo opera (a form of Chinese opera local to Ningbo)


姚劇

/jɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

/jɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/

(opera) A form of Chinese opera local to Yuyao, Zhejiang.


採茶戲

/t͡sʰaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

/t͡sʰaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/

(opera) tea-picking opera (a form of musical entertainment in the tea-producing regions of southern China, including Taiwan)


pasacalle

pasacalles (plural)
pasacalles (alternative)

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Verb-object compound, composed of pasa (“to pass”) + calle (“street”).

es-verb-obj

(music) passacaglia (historical Spanish dance)


nu-disco

A 21st-century dance music genre associated with a renewed interest in 1970s and 1980s disco and related genres.


doomcore

A dark and minimal subgenre of hardcore techno music.


funk carioca

/ˈfɐ̃.kɨ kɐˈɾjɔ.kɐ/

Por isso, desde sempre, fizeram discos de metal, hip hop e até abriram portas para o funk carioca (lembra de Popozuda? É deles).

2011, Alexandre Petillo, Curtindo rock brasileiro, Belas-Letras, →ISBN:

(music, Brazil) popular Brazilian street music genre similar to rap, inspired by Miami bass and originating in Rio de Janeiro favelas in the 1980s


darkpsy

Indeed, by the early 2000s, the music and cultures of psytrance (from psybient to darkpsy) was^([sic]) becoming entheogenically liminalised, a popular state of affairs from Europe to Israel, America to Australia and Brazil to South Africa.

2010, Graham St John, The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance, →ISBN, page 224:

Having said this, darkpsy antagonists are committed to reproducing an atmosphere that is certifiably gothic by comparison to "morning trance" and "progressive trance."

2011, Graham St. John, “Rave from the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the Dead”, in Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead, →ISBN, page 31:

In 2010, over one hundred acts (mostly DJs) would perform a variety of styles (including 'progressive psychedelic', 'tech-house', 'full on', and 'darkpsy') on a high performance sound system.

2012, Carole Cusack, Alex Norman, Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, →ISBN, page 545:

A darker, more morbid genre of psytrance music.


男旦

/nän³⁵ tän⁵¹/

/naːm²¹ taːn³³⁻³⁵/

/nän³⁵ tän⁵¹/

/naːm²¹ taːn³³⁻³⁵/

(Chinese opera) male actor performing as a dan (female role)


調腔

/ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tiːu̯²² hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tiːu̯²² hɔːŋ⁵⁵/

(opera) An old form of Chinese opera from Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, China.


越調

/ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

(opera) A form of regional/local opera from central China.


四股絃

/sz̩⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/sz̩⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

A variety of Chinese opera native to Hebei province which uses the sihu as the leading instrument.


neurofunk

A subgenre of drum and bass music with various influences including funk.


country rap

So as the genre feels increasingly unmoored from the rural experience, it leaves a gap for country-rap, which is often, word for word, far more specifically rural than what’s on the radio.

2014 May 23, The New York Times, “Country Music Opens Its Ears”, in The New York Times:

A genre of popular music combining country music and hip-hop-style rapping, typically accompanied by guitar, fiddle, and drum machine.


out-chorus

1991, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., "Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry" in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, p. 149, https://books.google.ca/books?id=Nn6y4iHj6_MC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I also hear the trombone's held-notes in the out-chorus (B⁷) as evocative "shouts" that Signify black religious shouting and its counterpart expression in secular life—calls, cries, and hollers […]

[…] the treatment of Monk's classic blues from 1947, "Misterioso," includes a torrent of notes from Adderley's cornet in the opening solo chorus matched by a hot, intense solo by Johnson before the out chorus.

2001, Joshua Berrett, Louis G. Bourgois III, chapter 7, in The Musical World of J. J. Johnson, Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, page 189:

(jazz) The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance


jangle pop

A 1980s genre of alternative rock music that marked a return to the jangly guitar melodies of the 1960s.


lavani

WATCH: Sairat fame Rinku Rajguru performs lavani with Madhuri Dixit

2016 June 23, “Bosco Martis and Terence Lewis battle it out for Mouni Roy”, in The Times of India:

(India) A genre of music and dance popular in Maharashtra.


娘親

/ni̯ɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/

/nœːŋ²¹ t͡sʰɐn⁵⁵/

/ŋi̯oŋ¹¹ t͡sʰin²⁴/

/niũ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰin⁴⁴/

/niũ²³⁻³³ t͡sʰin⁴⁴/

/ni̯ɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/

/nœːŋ²¹ t͡sʰɐn⁵⁵/

/ŋi̯oŋ¹¹ t͡sʰin²⁴/

/niũ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰin⁴⁴/

/niũ²³⁻³³ t͡sʰin⁴⁴/


シンセポップ

[ɕĩɰ̃se̞po̞p̚pɯ̟]

Based on English synthpop, replacing synth, shortening of synthesizer, with シンセ (shinse), a native Japanese shortening of シンセサイザー (shinsesaizā).


牛一

/ŋɐu̯²¹ jɐt̚⁵/

/ŋɐu̯²¹ jɐt̚⁵/

From splitting the character 生, as in 生日 (shēngrì, “birthday”), 生角 (“sheng (role)”), 先生 (xiānshēng, “mister”), 醫生 /医生 (yīshēng, “doctor”).

TCM: doctor practising traditional Chinese medicine

(Liuzhou Mandarin, opera, slang) sheng (a male role in Chinese opera)


drumstep

A genre of music combining elements of drum and bass and dubstep.


power noise

(music) A predominantly European noisy genre of electronic music.


oldies goldies

A genre of music consisting of hit records from former eras, generally 30 or more years in the past.


솔

Borrowed from Italian sol or some other European language.


솔

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

More information(MC reading: 率 (MC srwit))(MC reading: 窣 (MC swot))(MC reading: 蟀 (MC srwit))


小生

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/siːu̯³⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sŋ̍³³/

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/siːu̯³⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sŋ̍³³/

(opera) xiaosheng (young male character)


glitch hop

(music) A subgenre of electronic dance music that combines elements of hip hop and glitch music


Waka

From the Hausa waƙa (song). Entered Yorùbá through Islamic influence from the Hausa, with the first literary usage of the word being written in an Ajami manuscript written by Salihu Apomu from the center of Islamic learning of Yorubaland, Ìlọrin. In his manuscript the word simply meant song, which is the same as the original Hausa definition.

a genre of Yoruba music with heavy Islamic influences coming from the Hausa