Though some styles of music are known worldwide, most are particularly associated with a region, either corresponding to a country, part of a country, or multiple countries. This page lists the genres associated with each region, along with associated information on musical instruments and folk dances.
Each region will have the following information:
Note: Some items may be listed under more than one column.
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Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
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Denmark | skillingstryk | fanik - pols - sønderhoning | accordion - fiddle | pop | European tradition | hip hop - rock | Faroe Islands - Greenland - Nordic |
Djibouti | balwo - miniature poetry | East Africa | |||||
Dominica | bele - chante mas - jing ping - labo kabwit | heel-and-toe polka - jing ping | accordion - banjo - boom pipe - chac-chac - gwaj - tambal - tamboo - tambou bele | bouyon - cadence-lypso | calypso - gospel - steelpan | Caribbean - Lesser Antilles | |
Dominican_Republic | bachata - merengue - gagá - salve | tumba | accordion - atabales - box bass - guiro - guitar - guyana - maracca - panderos - saxophone - tambora | bachata - merengue | hip hop - house - reggaeton | Caribbean | |
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
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Haiti | compas - méringue - Vodou | menwat | cadence rampa - compas direct - minijazz - mizik rasin | Vodou-jazz | Caribbean | ||
Honduras | guancasco | accordion - conch - guitar - marimba | Central America - Garifuna | ||||
Hungary | nota - verbunkos | csárdás | táncház | Central Europe - Finno-Ugric - Gypsy - Transylvania - Vojvodina | |||
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
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Jamaica | baccra - junkanoo - mento - Kumina - Nyabinghi | quadrille - ska | dub - lovers rock - ragga - reggae - rocksteady - ska | Caribbean - Jamaican-British | |||
Japan | biwa hoshi - bon uta - bushi - komori uta - min'yo - nagauta - ondo - taiko - warabe uta | biwa - kane - koto - shamisen - shakuhachi - tsuzumi - taiko | enka - goshu ondo - gunka - kawachi ondo - kayokyoku - pop - shoka |
Japanese tradition:
gagaku -
joruri -
noh -
shomyo European tradition |
hip hop - reggae - rock - tango (dodompa) | Ainu - Okinawa | |
Jordan | zajal | gerbeh - mujwiz - ney - oud - rabab - reed pipe | Arab - Bedouin | ||||
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
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Kazakhstan | akyn - dombrovaia - kobizovaia - sibiz-govaia | dombra - kylkobyz - qobuz - saszyrnay - shankobyz - sherter - sybyzgy | European tradition | Central Asia | |||
Kenya | chamonge - ground bow - guitar - nyatiti - obokano - sukuti | benga - Congolese - hotel pop - Kamba - Kikuyu - Swahili | hip hop | East Africa | |||
Kiribati | rurubene - te kainikamaen | stick dance | Micronesia | ||||
Kuwait | mawled - sawt | fareesa - sameri | sawt | Arab | |||
Kyrgyzstan | manaschi | asa-taya - chopo choor - dobulba - komuz - kyl kiak - qyl-qiyak - sybyzgy - timur komuz | Central Asia | ||||
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
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Laos | khaplam wai - lam saravane - mor lam | bell - fiddle - flute - khaen | lam luang - mor lam sing | Lao - Southeast Asia | |||
Latvia | daina | kokle - zinge | rock | Finno-Ugric | |||
Lebanon | derbake - ney - oud | Arab | |||||
Lesotho | lekolulo - setolo-tolo - thomo | Southern Africa | |||||
Liberia | accordion - banjo - concertina - harmonica - mandolin - pennywhistle | palm-wine | |||||
Libya | huda | anzad - darbuka - flute - tambourine - oud - zokra | masoud | Arab - North Africa | |||
Liechtenstein | Central Europe | ||||||
Lithuania | daino - rateliai | polka - waltz - sutartines | accordion - bandoneon - basetle - concertina - fiddle - flute - kankles - lamzdeliai | rock | |||
Luxembourg | |||||||
Sovereign state | Folk music | Folk dance | Instruments | Popular music | Classical music | Local scenes | See also |
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Madagscar | salegy - vakodrazana | jejy voatova - kabosy - lokanga - marovany - sodina - valiha | watcha watcha - tapany maintso | rock | |||
Malawi | afroma - guitar and banjo - Malawian jazz | kwasa kwasa (soukous) | Southern Africa | ||||
Malaysia | |||||||
Maldives | |||||||
Malta | |||||||
Marshall Islands | |||||||
Mauritania | |||||||
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Mexico | |||||||
Micronesia | |||||||
Moldova | |||||||
Monaco | |||||||
Mongolia | |||||||
Morocco | |||||||
Mozambique | |||||||
Myanmar | |||||||
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