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Category:Music genres

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Category:Music genres is a Wikimedia category . It serves as a collection page that organizes and groups various types of music genres. The category functions as a structural element within Wikimedia projects, facilitating navigation and classification of related content.

This category does not represent a single music genre but rather aggregates multiple genres under a broader taxonomic framework .

Key Facts

  • Category's main topic: music genre[3]
  • Commons category: Musical genres[4]
  • Said to be the same as: Category:Music styles[5]
  • Commons gallery: Music genres[6]
  • Category combines topics: music[7], art genre[8]
  • List related to category: list of music genres and styles[9]
  • Different from: Category:Music by genre[10]
  • Category contains: music genre[11]
  • Category populated by: Template:Music genres[12]

Why It Matters

Category:Music genres has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

music

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Iketsi · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category contains → music genre
    List related to category → list of music genres and styles
    Category combines topics → music, art genre
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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