America.gov: American Popular Music - Online publication contains stories that illustrate how Americans, borrowing from diverse musical traditions, have contributed to humanity’s universal..
Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles - Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, clas..
Ectophiles Guide by Genre - Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists,..
Indiana University School of Music: Genres - Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, ban..
Music Classification by Genre: System Performance - Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio sample..
Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres - Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country.
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A Taxonomy of Musical Genres - Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000. [PDF]
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Wikipedia: Musical Genre - Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region, chronology, technical requirements, marketing trends, or the ideas of critics. Extensively linked to ..