List of genres of music: S-Z
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| List of genres of music |
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S
- Sabar - drumming style found in Senegal
- Sacred Harp
- Sadcore
- Saetas
- Saibara
- Saiyidi - folk music of the upper Nile Delta
- Sakyapa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting
- Salegy
- Salsa - fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in New York City
- Salsa erotica - lyrically explicit form of salsa romantica
- Salsa gorda
- Salsa romantica - a soft, romantic form of salsa music
- Saltarello
- Salve
- Samba - form of Brazilian popular music
- Samba breque - a genre ofsamba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm
- Samba-canção - modern samba dance music
- Samba da garrafa - modern incarnation of samba do pagode
- Samba de enredo - Samba played during Carnival celebrations
- Samba do pagode - popular dance-oriented samba
- Samba reggae - samba and reggae fusion
- Sambai
- Sangeo - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music
- Sanjo - Korean instrumental folk music
- Sanjuanitos
- Sarandunga
- Sardinian polyphonic chanting
- Sato kagura
- Sawahili - folk music from the Mediterranean coast of Egypt
- Sawt - urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
- Sax jive
- Sayas - Bolivian dance music which was popularized as lambada in the 1980s
- Sazdohol
- Scandinavian metal (Viking metal)
- Schottisch
- Schranz
- Sea shantie
- Sean nós
- Second Viennese School
- Sega music
- Seggae
- Seis
- Semba
- Semi-tone calypso (Half calypso)
- Sephardic music
- Serialism
- Serrana
- Set dance
- Sevdalinka - Bosnian urban popular music
- Sevillana
- Shabab
- Shabad
- Shalako - Armenian folk dance
- Shan'ge - Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
- Shango
- Shape note
- Sharkan - American Christian chanting
- Shawm and drum - Instrumental pairing common in Gypsy music
- Shlager
- Shibuya-kei
- Shidaiqu - Hong Kong-based form of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in Mandarin
- Shima uta - a form of Okinawan dance music
- Shin-min'yo - a modernized form of min'yo, or folk music
- Shoegazing
- Shoka - Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
- Shomyo - Japanese Buddhist chanting
- Showtunes
- Sica
- Siguiriyas
- Silat - Malaysian mixture of music, dance and martial arts
- Sinawi - Korean religious music meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of jazz
- Singers & Standards
- Singer-songwriter
- Single tone calypso
- Sinjonjo
- Sizhu - folk ensembles from southern China
- Ska
- Ska punk
- Skacore (third wave of ska)
- Skald
- Skate punk
- Skiffle
- Skotsploech - traditional Frisian ensemble music
- Skillingstryk
- Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) - Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
- Slängpolska
- Slide
- Slow airs
- Slowcore
- Sludge metal
- Smooth jazz
- S'o wa mbe
- Soca
- Soca-bhangra
- Soca-funk
- Soft ambient
- Soft rock
- Solea (soleares)
- Sombient
- Son
- Son-batá (batá rock)
- Son montuno - Cuban folk music
- Sonata
- Songo - a mixture of changuí and son montuno
- Songo-salsa - a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa
- Sonido
- Soukous
- Soul blues
- Soul jazz
- Soul music
- Southern Harmony
- Southern hip hop
- Southern rock
- Southern soul
- Space music
- Space rock
- Spacesynth
- Spectralism
- Speedcore
- Speed garage
- Speed metal
- Spirituals
- Spouge - Barbadian folk music
- Square dance
- St. Louis blues
- St. Louis soul
- Stambolovski orkestri
- Staroprazske pisnieky - pub songs from Prague
- Steelband
- Stev - short, often improvised, Norwegian folk songs
- Stoner metal
- Straight edge
- Strathspeys
- Street songs - bawdy adolescent chants of unknown authorship
- Stride
- String - 1980s Thai pop music
- String quartet
- Stubenmusik - Bavarian string ensembles
- Suite
- Suomirock
- Suomitrance
- Surf rock
- Sutartines
- Swahili sound
- Sway
- Swamp blues
- Swamp pop
- Swingbeat (New Jack Swing, New Jack R&B)
- Swing music
- Sygyt - type of xoomii (Tuvan throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
- Symphonic black metal
- Symphonic poem
- Symphony
- Synth metal
- Synth pop
- Synth rock
- Synthpunk
- Syrtó
T
- Taarab
- Tættir
- Tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music
- Taiwanese pop - early Taiwanese pop music influenced by enka and popular with older listeners
- Tala - a rhythmic pattern in Indian classical music
- Tamborito - Panamanian dance music
- Tambu
- Tamburitza
- Tamil tiruppukazh
- Táncház - Hungarian dance music
- Tango - Argentinian dance music that became internationally popular in the 1920s
- Tango-canción - the first wildly popular form of tango in Argentina
- Tango flamenco
- Tanguk - a form of Korean court music that includes elements of Chinese music
- Tanjidor - traditional, instrumental music from Indonesia with various brass intruments, usually played in processions
- Talempong - a distinct Minangkabau gamelan music
- Taibubu
- Tapany maintso
- Tappa
- Tarabu
- Tarana - form of vocal music from northern India using highly rythmic nonsense syllables
- Tarannum
- Tarantella
- Tarantolati - Calabrian folk healing ritual
- Taranto
- Tassou - Senegalese rapping
- Tawshih
- Tchink-system
- Tchinkoumé
- Tech house
- Techno
- Techno-tribal
- Technoid
- Tembang sunda - Sundanese sung free verse poetry
- Teen pop
- Tejano
- Television themes
- Texas blues
- Tex-Mex - American term for that which is known as norteño in Mexico
- The Birmingham Sound
- Thrash metal
- Thresher
- Thumri - a type of popular Hindustani vocal music
- Tibetan pop - pop music heavily influenced by Chinese forms, emerging in the 1980s
- Tientos
- Thillana - form of vocal music from South India using highly rhythmic nonsense syllables
- Timbila - form of folk music in Mozambique
- Tin Pan Alley
- Tina
- Tinga
- Tis távlas - drinking songs from Epirus
- Togaku
- Tonas
- Toshe - Tibetan dance music
- T'ong guitar - acoustic guitar pop music of Korea
- Township jive (Mbaqanga)
- Toziych
- Traditional pop music
- Trallalero - Genoese urban songs
- Trampská hudba - Czech urban folk music
- Trance
- Tribal house
- Trip-hop
- Trikitrixa - Basque accordion music
- Troista-country
- Troll metal
- Tropicalia
- TRT
- Truck-driving country
- Tsámiko
- Tsapika
- Tsonga disco
- Tumba
- Tuuli (Maglaal)
- Turbo-folk - aggressive form of modernized Serbian music
- Turntablism
- Tuvan throat-singing
- Twarab
- Twee pop
- Two tone (second wave of ska)
U
- Ufie
- UK garage
- UK pub rock
- Umui - Okinawann religious songs
- Underground music
- Urban Cowboy
- Urban jazz
- Urtin duu
- Ute
V
- Vakodrazana
- Vakojazzana
- Vallenato - accordion-based Colombian folk music
- Vallenato-protesta
- Variet
- Vaudeville
- Verbunkos - Hungarian folk music
- Verismo
- Video game music
- Viennese-style classical music
- Villancicos
- Villanella - 16th century Neapolitan songs
- Virelais
- Vísir
- Visual rock
- Visual techno
- Vocal house
- Vocal jazz
- Vuelie
W
- Wahrani
- Waila (chicken scratch) - a Tohono O'odham fusion of polka, norteño and Native American music
- Waltz
- Wangga
- Warabe uta
- Wassoulou
- Watcha watcha
- Were
- West Coast hip hop
- Western blues
- Western swing
- Western Tradition of Sephardic music
- Women's music or womyn's music, wimmin's music--1970s lesbian/feminist
- Wong shadow - 1960s Thai pop music
- Work song
- Worldbeat
- World music
X
- Xi'an drum music - popular around Xi'an, China, ensembles of percussion and wind instruments
- Xoomii (khoomii, hoomii) - a type of Tuvan throat singing
Y
Z
- Zairean sound
- Zajal
- Zapin - derived from ancient Arabic music, zapin is popular throughout Malaysia
- Zarzuela - a form of Spanish operetta
- Zbójnicki
- Zen (music)
- Zendani
- Ziglibithy
- Zikir Barat - Sufi vocal music from Malaysia
- Zinge - Latvian vocal music
- Zoblazo
- Zolo - characterized by hyper jerky rhythms and cacophonous/ harmonious bleeps and boings
- Zouglou
- Zouk - Antillean dance music
- Zouk chouv
- Zouk funk - a fusion of zouk and funk
- Zouklove
- Zout
- Zulu a cappella
- Zydeco - popular Louisianan Creole music