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Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, modern rock, rock, and heavy metal.

Website: http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php
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5. Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre

About two dozen musical genres including blues, a capella, dance/techno, and Southern gospel, with as many as several hundred links to Christian music artists in each.

Website: http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/index.cgi?command=Display_Genre
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6. DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler

Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.

Website: http://datadragon.com/education/genres/
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7. Duke University Library: Women in Music By Musical Genre

Text lists and links to library resources such as books, periodicals and recordings on women performers and composers by musical genre.

Website: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/mugenre.html
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8. 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, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art, beautiful and fierce, and traditional.

Website: http://ectoguide.org/genre
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9. Indiana University School of Music: Genres

Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Unusual categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music.

Website: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html
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10. InfoUSA: Musical Genres

Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music.

Website: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/genres.htm
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11. 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 samples.

Website: http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11690/latest/
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12. 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.

Website: http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html
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13. Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art

Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available Online. [PDF]

Website: http://www.idiap.ch/~paiement/references/to_read/music/genre_classification/pachet-02c.pdf
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14. 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 sub-genres and examples of significant artists.

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_genre
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