Styles
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- All Music Guide
- Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews.
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- DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler
- Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The Mudcat Cafe
- Community collection of information on folk and blues music. Searchable database of song lyrics, research, conversations, and kids stuff.
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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 sub-genres and examples of significant artists.
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- Southern Music Network
- Brief paragraphs on notable and influential country, blues, jazz, gospel, and rock artists of the southern US, organized by decade from 1900 to 2000.
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- Doo-Wop: The Music That Won't Die
- A brief synopsis of the music and pointers to other interesting web resources.
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- Remembering The 50s
- Dozens of hit songs as full-length WAV files, with nostalgic photos from 1950s TV shows and movies as well as links to other Fifties sites.
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- Dance Crasher
- Jamaican music from the sixties and early seventies including ska, rocksteady and reggae. Illustrations of record labels from each genre plus sections for Studio 1, Trojan and others.
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- Manchester Beat
- A salute to Manchester bands of the 1960s. Offers bands, music shops, DJs, agents, venues and memories.
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- Oldies Music at About.com
- Resources for fifties and sixties music on the web. Includes newsworthy and timely material related to oldies music.
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- Sundazed Music
- Reissues original albums of classic and overlooked sounds from the sixties including surf and hot rod music, garage rock, psychedelic, pop, country, folk rock, soul and rockabilly.
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- Vinyl Cobwebs
- Provides oldies radio programs. Includes playlists, photographs, host information, archives, guestbook and download for the latest show.