 All Music Guide - http://allmusic.com/ Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews. |
 Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles - http://www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php 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. |
 DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler - http://datadragon.com/education/genres/ Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links. |
 A Taxonomy of Musical Genres - http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2000/pachet-riao2000.pdf Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000. |
 Indiana University School of Music: Genres - http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/genres.html Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music. |
 Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres - http://www.kendavies.net/musicwebhunter/stylegenre.html Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country. |
 Ectophiles Guide by Genre - http://ectoguide.org/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. |
 Wikipedia: Musical Genre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. |
 America.gov: American Popular Music - http://www.america.gov/publications/books/american-popular-music.html Online publication contains stories that illustrate how Americans, borrowing from diverse musical traditions, have contributed to humanity’s universal language. |
 Music Classification by Genre: System Performance - http://cnx.org/content/m11690/latest/ Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples. |