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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:

  • Folk music: music primarily transmitted orally and without formal authorship or education
  • Folk dance: forms of dance primarily transmitted orally and without formal authorship or education
  • Instruments: musical instruments in common use and closely associated with the region's folk and/or popular music
  • Popular music: music created for mass production and sale, generally by professional or semi-professional musicians
  • Classical music: highly standardized and codified music with a well-documented history, generally taught and played formally
  • Local scenes: music created in the region in a style of popular music
  • See also:: music areas associated with the region; this can be either a music area that the region is contained within, or a music area that is contained within the region, and may also include closely related subjects like territories part of an external region but with close kinship to the region in question, or that region's music as it is present in another region; note also that a music area need not correspond exactly to any geographic region, and may even include completely non-contiguous regions (such as the Lusophone music area)

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
Republic of Macedonia teškoto accordion - bass guitar - cemane - clarinet - def - gaida - guitar - kaval - qanún - saxophone - supelka - tambura - tarabuka - ut - violin - zapan - zurla calgia rock Gypsy - Southeastern Europe
Afghanistan Jat - Pashtun - wedding music badakshani - cymbals - daireh - dhol - dilruba - dutar - ghichak - rubab - shawm - sorna - tabla - zirbaghali Popular music klasik Aimak - Badakhshan - Baloch - Central Asia - Hazara - Herat - Jalalabad - Kabul - Kandahar - Mazar-e Sharif - Muslim - Persian - South Asia - Tajik music - Turkmen music - Uzbek music
Albania Folk music: epic poetry - funereal music - Greek-Albanian - kaba - llazore - maje-krahi - Rapsodi Kreshnike çifteli - clarinet - def - lahuta - llautë - sharki - violin - zumarë Popular music: Alb-pop European tradition: opera Berat - Durrës - Elbasan - Himarë - Korçë - Kosovo - Përmet - Roma (Gypsy) - Shkodër - Southeastern Europe - Tirana - Vlorë
Algeria Andalusi nubah - bedoui - medh - melhun - hofii - raï - zindalii - zendani ajouag - bendir - gaspa - ghaita - guellal - t'bel bedoui citadinisé - chaabi - lover's raï - raï - sha-bii - wahrani Andalusian tradition - hawzii - nuubaat - rabaab hip hop - rock Africa - Annaba - Arab - Batna - Constantine - Kabylia - Muslim - North Africa - North African-French - Oran - Tlemcen
Andorra contrapàs - marratxa - sardana Catalonia
Angola kilapanda - rebita - semba accordion - harmonica - kizomba - ngoma - quilapanga - viola dikanza merengue Bakongo - Kimbundu - Luamba - Lusophone - Ovimbundu - Southern Africa
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Afghanistan Jat music badakshani - cymbals - dutar - ghichak - zirbaghali ghazal - klasik - naghmeh - raga Central Asia - Muslim - Persian - South Asia
Albania kaba - Rapsodi Kreshnike çifteli - clarinet - def - llautë - sharki - violin Alb-pop Kosovo - Southeastern Europe
Algeria hofii - raï - zindalii raï - sha-bii hawzii - nuubaat - rabaab Africa - Arab - Kabylia - Muslim - North Africa
Andorra contrapàs - marratxa Catalonia
Angola kilapanda - kizomba - rebita - semba marimba dikanza merengue Lusophone - Southern Africa
Antigua and Barbuda benna calypso - steelpan Caribbean - Antilles
Argentina chamamé - milonga - tango chacarera - cuarteto - tango tango rock Latin America
Armenia davul - duduk - kamancha - kanon - oud - tar - zurna sharakan pop Armenian-American
Australia European tradition - country - hardcore - hip hop - jazz - rock Australian Aborigine
Austria schrammelmusik - yodeling kontratänze - ländler - schuhplattler - sprachinseltänze - waltz - zwiefacher clarinet - contrabass - fiddle - guitar - harp - Styrian harmonica European tradition Alpunk Central Europe
Azerbaijan ashiq balaban - dhol - duduk - ghaval - kamancha - naghara - saz - shvi - tar - zurna magham hip hop Caucasus - Central Asia - Persian
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Bahamas ant'em - goombay - junkanoo - rake-and-scrape - rhyming spiritual goombay drum junkanoo ripsaw Caribbean
Bahrain khaleeji - sawt sawt hip hop Arab - Arabia - Muslim
Bangladesh Baul geeti - bhatiali - bhawaiya - gajir geet - gombhira - jaari - jatra gaan - Lalon geeti - pala - kobi gaan - mursiya - shaari - upojatiyo adhunik gaan kirtan - nazrul geeti - rabindra sangeet - raga pop - rock Bengal - South Asia
Barbados tuk ragga-soca - Ring Bang - spouge calypso - jazz - soca Caribbean - Lesser Antilles
Belarus rock Eastern Europe
Belgium saxophone hip hop - Belgian rock
Belize brukdown - buru marimba boom-and-chime Central America - Garifuna
Benin tchinkoumé tchink-system hip hop - reggae West Africa
Bhutan boedra - zhungdra chiwang - dramnyen - lim - pi-wang - yangchin rigsar South Asia
Bolivia canto nuevo - huayno - lambada - sayas Andes - Latin America
Bosnia and Herzegovina ganga - izvorna Bosanska muzika - ravne pjesme - sevdah accordion - gusle - sargija - saz sevdalinka European tradition hip hop - rock Southeastern Europe
Botswana gumba-gumba hip hop Southern Africa - Tswana
Brazil Capoeira - choro - modinha - repentismo - samba bumba-meu-boi - lundu - maxixe - samba accordion - atabaque - bandolim - berimbau - cavaquinho - cuica - guitar - pandeiro - tamborim afoxê - baião - bossa nova - carimbó - forró - frevo - lambada - Tropicalismo European tradition hip hop - jazz Latin America - Lusophone
Brunei adai-adai - benari - Kedayan music Jipin dombak - kulintangan - gambus dan biola - rebana Southeast Asia
Bulgaria nestinari gaida - kaval - gadulka - tambura - tarambuke - tǔpan hip hop - rock Southeastern Europe
Burkina Faso djeli balles de poussiéres balafon - bendré - djembe - kora - n'goni West Africa
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Cambodia chappay - ching - ghong - pia au - roneat - srlay - tro kantrum - ramvong - ramkbach pinpeat orchestra Southeast Asia
Cameroon bikutsi bikutsi - kossa balafon - mvet - zanza ambasse bey - assiko - bantowbol - bend-skin - bikutsi - makassi -makossa - mangambeu - nganja - tchamassi Central Africa
Canada kattajaq - sea shanty cotillion - jeux dansé - jig - polka - ronde - quadrille accordion - fiddle chansonnier European tradition country - hip hop - jazz - rock By province and territory Celtic - First Nations - Maritime - North - Prairie - Quebec
Cape Verde batuco - morna funana accordion - cavaquinho - guitar - piano coladeira - funacola - morna Cape Verdean-American - Lusophone
Central African Republic mbela - ongo Central Africa - Pygmy
Chad griot - waza balafon - hu hu - kakaki - keleli - kinde - kodjo drums
Chile cueca - payadores - tonada nueva canción rock Andean - Easter Island - Latin American
China beiguan - chanhe - chuigushou - folk flute music - Guangdong - Kun opera - lhamo - lu - nangma - Nanguan ballad - shan'ge - shifan - sizhu - tea picking opera - toeshey - Xi'an drum music - xiaodiao - xintianyou - yang - youyouzha Ansai waist drum dance - grand yangko - sanam - tichangzi banhu - bells - cymbals - dap - dutar - erhu - dizi - gaohu - gong - guanzi - jinghu - konghou - liuqin - lusheng - paigu - paishao - pipa - qin - rawap - ruan - sanxian - sheng - suona - tanbur - yangqin - yueqin - zheng - zhonghu C-pop - Cantopop - gar - guoyue - Mandopop - shidaiqu - Tibetan pop European tradition - Chinese tradition: baisha xiyue - donjiang - nanyin - qinqiang
Opera: Cantonese - Sichuan - Chu - Taiwanese - Anhui - Huangmei
hip hop - rock By subnational region Hong Kong - Macau - Taiwan - Tibet - Xinjiang
Colombia bambuco - champeta - cumbia - llanera - porro - vallenato bambuco accordion champeta - cumbia - música tropical - vallenato salsa Latin America
Comoros gabusi - ndzendze - 'ud - violin twarab - variet
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinsasha) madiaba - mutuashi - soukous rumba Central Africa
Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) balafon - mvet soukous Central Africa
Costa Rica cuadrille - danza del Sol - danza de la Luna - punto Guanacasteco accordion - chirimia - guitar - ocarina - quijongo European tradition calypso
Côte d'Ivoire dopé - gbébé abissa laba laba - polihet - ziglibithy - zouglou hip hop (rap dogba) West Africa
Croatia klapa - tamburitza curla - diple - gusle - mišnica - sopila European tradition rock Southeastern Europe
Cuba areito - bolero - changuí - charanga - campesina - guajira - habanera - orquesta tipica - son - toque danzón - rumba bongos - conga - clarinet - claves - cornetín chino - batá - güiro - maraca - marímbula - tres - vihuela - violon - yuka cha-cha-cha - mambo - campesina - guaracha - nueva trova - rumba - salon guajira - salsa - son montuno - songo - timba European tradition hip hop - jazz Caribbean - Latin America
Cyprus dachas - kartsilamdhes - sousta - syrtos - zeimbekikos accordion - laouto - pithkiavli - violin - ud rock Greece - Turkey
Czech Republic the Czech Republic lidovka - staroprazske pisnieky polka bagpipes - cimbalom - clarinet - double bass - violin tramp music European tradition rock Central Europe
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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
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East Timor likurai guitar Lusophone - Southeast Asia
Ecuador albazo - amor fino - bandas mochas - bomba - bunde - torbellino bambuco - bombos - conunos - cunuca - guaramo - guasá - güiro - maraca - pasillo - pasacalle - pifano - pinkullo - rondador - yarabi marimba - guitar - rondin Latin America
Egypt mulid - saiyidi mizmar - ney - simsimaya al-jil - Arab classical music - Sawahii - shaabi Africa - Arab - Bedouin - North Africa
El Salvador chanchona xuc flute - drum - gourd - guitar - scraper Central America - Latin America
Equatorial Guinea balélé - ibanga bow harp - mvet - sanza - xylophone - zithers Central Africa
Eritrea kobar - kobero - kraar - lyre - wata pop East Africa
Estonia runo-song accordion - concertina - fiddle - zither rock Finno-Ugric
Ethiopia azmari - manzuma kebero - krar - masenqo - washint bolel - senna-werq jazz East Africa
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Fiji cibi - dele - meke derua - lali - mandolin - guitar - ukulele vude reggae Melanesia - Polynesia
Finland joik - pelimanni - rekilaulu humppa - jenka accordion - fiddle - harmonium - jouhikko - kantele iskelmä - Suomirock European tradition - opera hip hop - rock - tango Finno-Ugric - Karelia - Nordic - Sami
France bal-musette - bagad - Corsican polyphonic song - gwerz - kan ha diskan - sardana - trikitrixa bourrée - couple de sonneur - rigaudon - minuet - quadrille accordion - biniou - bodega - boha - bombarde - cabrette - fife - grande cornemuse - hurdy-gurdy - mandolin - tambour de Béarn - violin raï European tradition: air de cour - ars nova - ars subtilior - cancion - motet - Notre Dame school - opera hip hop - jazz - rock subdivisions and territories: Brittany - Corsica - French Guiana - French Polynesia - Martinique and Guadeloupe - Mayotte - New Caledonia - Réunion - St. Pierre and Miquelon - Tahiti - Wallis and Futuna
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Gabon obala Central Africa
Gambia griot kora Afro-Manding blues hip hop West Africa
Georgia krimanchuli - orovela - polyphonic choir clarinet - doli - duduk Caucasus
Germany lied - oom-pah - yodeling schuhplattler accordion - fiddle cabaret - Hamburger Schule - Neue Deutsche Welle - pop - schlager - volksmusic European tradition - opera heavy metal - highlife - hip hop - klezmer - rock Bavaria - Sorbia - Swabia
Ghana asonko - kpanlogo log xylophone Afro-rock - agbadza - borborbor - highlife - palm-wine hip hop West Africa
Greece akritic - amanédhes - dhimotiká - haniotikos - kantádhes - kléftiko - klephtic - mirolóyia - nisiótika - rebetiko - Smyrnaiika - tis távlas ai yiogis - ballos syrtos - chiotikos - fisouni - hasaposérviko - ikariotikos - issos - kalamatianó - karagouna - kariatidon - kato sto yialo - kentimeni - kerkyraikos - klistos - koftos - laziotikos - maleviziotikos - menousis - pentozali - pilioritikos - podhia - sta dio - sta tria - stavrotos - svarniara - syrtó - syrtos rodou - tai-tai - tsámiko - trata - tsakonikos - tsirigotikos - yiatros - zagorisios aulos - bagpipes - boxoúki - clarinet - guitar - kithara - laoúto - lýra - oud - sandoúri - skáros - tambourine - violi éntekhno - laïkó - rebetiko European tradition hip hop - rock Crete - Cyprus - Greek-American - Macedonia - Southeastern Europe - Thrace
Grenada Big Drum - heel-and-toe - quadrille calypso - jazz - reggae Caribbean - Lesser Antilles
Guatemala marimba Central America - Garifuna
Guinea balafon - guitar - kora - ngoni hip hop West Africa
Guinea-Bissau brosca - djambadon - kundere - kussundé calabash gumbe - tina - tinga West Africa
Guyana tan singing box guitar calypso Caribbean - Indo-Guyanese
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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
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Iceland rímur langspil - fiðla hip hop - rock Nordic
India ainchaliyan - bhangra - bharthari - bharud - boli - chait parah - chakri - chandeni - dhankul - dhob - gondhal - jhoori - khubaishei - khullong - Lai Haraoba - lavani - leha - mando - napi pala - nat - nirguni lavani - Pandwani - panihari - povada - qawwali - rasiya - relo - samskara - shringari lavani - sumangali alley yate - bhangra - damanght - dandiya - dhaunsa - garba - jabro - khya - kuchipudi - nacha - naqal - nautanki - panthi - ramlila - ras - raslila - rouf - saira - svanga - zeliang algoja - ayar kuzhal - bans - bansary - been - bishudi - bumb - chimta - cymbals - dafale - dammama - dhol - dholak - dholku - dolki - doru - gajju - ghanta - ghariyal - ghungru - gramyang - harmonium - hudak - iktara - jhanjh - jumang - karnal - khanjari - kindari davatra - kokatha murchang - majira - mridangam - nagara - nagarth - peepni - pena - petu - rabab - rana singha - santoor - sarangi - saz - shankg - shehnai - sitar - tabla - tabala - tamaka - tambura - tasa - thali - theku - timki - violin - wasool - zanz bhangra - dandiya - filmi - ghazal - Indi-pop - qawwali Indian tradition: Bengali - Carnatic - charya - Hindustani - Odissi - raga - Sufiana Kalam European tradition hip hop - jazz - rock by state or region Indian-British - South Asia
Indonesia kecak - kecapi suling - tembang sunda bonang - gambang - gamyak - gong ageng - kempul. - kenong - ketuk - rabab - spike fiddle - siter - suling dangdut - kroncong - gambang kromong - gambus - jaipongan - langgam jawa - pop Batak - pop Minang - pop Sunda - Qasidah modern - tapanuli ogong - tembang jawa angklung - degung - gambang - gong gede - gong kebyar - jegog - joged bumbung - salendro - selunding - semar pegulingan hip hop - rock Bali - Java - Southeast Asia
Iran amiri - charvadari - kaleh haal - katuli - najma bandari daf - duduk - kamancheh - ney - santur - setar - tar - zarb bandari - pop musiqi-e asil - European tradition rock Kurdish - Persian
Iraq cello - darbuka - djoze - naqqara - ney - oud - qanun - rebab - riqq - santur pesteh maqam - tchalgi Arab
Ireland session - Sean-nós song hornpipe - jig - mazurka - polka - reel - set dancing - step dancing accordion - bagpipe - banjo - bodhrán - bouzouki - concertina - fiddle - flute - guitar - harmonica - harp - mandolin - tin whistle - Uilleann pipes ballads - rebel songs John Field
(European tradition)
hip hop - rock Celtic
Israel pop - Sephardic music - Yemenite music European tradition hip hop - klezmer - rock Jewish - Palestinian
Italy alla carrettiera - endecasillabo - gozo - lamentazioni - neomelodici - stornello - trallalero - villanella saltarello - tarantella - tarantolati accordion - fiddle - lira - tamura canzone napoletana - film music - patchanka - pop European tradition - opera hip hop - jazz - rock Sardinia - Sicily
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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
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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
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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
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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
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
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