Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, religious or linguistic group.
Cultural genres By ethnicity or origin Ainu Indigenous Australian Maori Palestinian Russian Ukrainian
Immigrant communities
African American Anglo-American White Australian Cajun and Louisiana Creole Caribbean-British Immigrants to Australia Immigrants to the United States Indian-British Indo-Caribbean Irish- and Scottish-Canadian Irish- and Scottish-American Latino-American Tex-Mex and Tejano
International ethnic groups Afro-American (also Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean) Andean Arabic Assyrian Basque Bedouin Berber Celtic Garifuna Korean Kurdish Jewish Secular Sephardic Lao Maroon Native American and First Nations Nordic Romani Sami
Native Sub-Saharan African ethnic groups
Baganda Ewe Hausa Igbo Ndebele Pygmy Shona Sotho Swazi Tswana Wolof Xhosa Yoruba Zulu
Native American ethnic groups
Arapaho Blackfoot Dene Iroquois Innu Inuit Kiowa Kwakiutl Maya Navajo Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni) Seminole Sioux (Lakota, Dakota) Yaqui Yuman
By religion
Buddhism Christianity Anglicanism and Episcopalianism Amish Latter-Day Saints Orthodox Greek Orthodox Salvation Army Shakers Hare Krishna Hinduism Judaism Yarsanism Islam Native American religion Neopaganism Rastafari movement Shinto Sikhism Taoism Zoroastrianism
See also: Music of Vatican City
By language Esperanto Portuguese
Geographic genres By country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo-Kinshasa Congo-Brazzaville Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Federated States of Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
By continent or other international region Africa North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa West Africa Asia Central Asia East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia Caribbean Lesser Antilles Central America Europe Low Countries Northern Europe Southeastern Europe Middle East North America Oceania and Australia Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia South America
By province, region or other sub-national entity Algeria Kabylie
Australia Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Perth Sydney
Austria
Innsbruck Vienna
Bulgaria
Thrace
Canada Cities:
Montreal Vancouver
Regions:
Maritime Provinces Prairie Provinces West
Provinces and Territories:
Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon
Chile Easter Island
China Anhui Fujian Gansu Guangdong Guangxi Guizhou Hebei Heilongjiang Henan Hong Kong Hubei Inner Mongolia Jiangxi Jilin Macau Manchuria Qinghai Shaanxi Sichuan Tibet Xinjiang Yunnan
Denmark Overseas:
Faroe Islands Greenland
Finland Åland Karelia
France Cities
Monaco Paris
Regions
Aquitaine Auvergne Brittany Burgundy Corsica Gascony Limousin
Overseas:
Austral Islands French Guiana French Polynesia Martinique and Guadeloupe Mayotte New Caledonia Réunion Tahiti Wallis and Futuna
Germany Cities
Berlin
Greece Aegean Islands Crete Cyclades Dodecanese Islands Epirus Ionian Islands Lesbos Macedonia Peloponnesos Thessaloniki Thessaly Thrace
Hungary Budapest Pécs
India Andaman and Nicobar Islands Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bengal Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu Jharkhand Karnataka Kashmir Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Orissa Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttaranchal
Indonesia Bali Java Sumatra Sunda
Israel
Mizrahi Music
Italy Regions: Aosta Valley Calabria Campania Friuli Latium Liguria Lombardy Marche Piedmont Puglia Sardinia Sicily Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Tuscany Veneto
Cities:
Florence Genoa Lucca Milan Naples Venice
Japan
Okinawa
Mexico
Chihuahua
Netherlands Overseas:
Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand Overseas:
Cook Islands Niue Tokelau
Portugal
Madeira
Romania
Transylvania
Russia Cities:
Kaliningrad Rostov-on-Don
Regions:
Adygea Altai Astrakhan Bashkortostan Buryatia Dagestan Evenkia Ingushetia Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kalmykia Karelia Khakassia Mordovia Nenetsia Ossetia Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia
Serbia
Vojvodina
Spain Andalusia Aragon Balearic Islands Basque Country Canary Islands Castile, Madrid and Leon Catalonia Extremadura Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias Madrid Murcia Navarre and La Rioja Valencia
Taiwan Taiwan
Tajikistan Badakhshan
Turkey
Thrace Karadeniz
United Kingdom Individual countries England Cornwall Northumbria Somerset Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Cities:
Birmingham Classical music of Birmingham Jazz of Birmingham Popular music of Birmingham Cardiff Liverpool Manchester
Dependencies and Territories:
Anguilla Bermuda Cayman Islands Channel Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Isle of Man Montserrat Saint Helena Turks and Caicos Islands Virgin Islands
United States Regions:
Appalachia Mid-Atlantic West
Cities:
Annapolis Athens Atlanta Austin Baltimore Charlotte Chicago Dallas Denver Detroit Fort Worth Los Angeles Miami Milwaukee New Orleans New York City Olympia Omaha Philadelphia San Diego San Francisco Seattle Washington, D.C.
States:
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Overseas:
American Samoa Guam Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands
Historical genres
Byzantine Early Ancient Celtic Ancient Egypt Ancient Greek Ancient India Hittite Maya Hayran Medieval (Europe) Mesopotamia Ottoman Ancient Persia Prehistoric Renaissance (Europe) Ancient Rome Sasanian Empire Soviet Union Ancient Sumeria Temperance songs Ancient Tamil
See also List of basic music topics Lists by country List of national anthems List of folk music traditions