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List of genres of music: N-R - Definition and Overview |
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- Na trapeza - Greek-Turkish slow songs
- Nagauta - Japanese style of shamisen-playing
- Naghmehs
- Nakasi - Taiwanese musical form
- Naked funk
- Nangma - Tibetan dance music
- Nanguan - Taiwanese instrumental music
- Narcocorrido - Spanish for "Drug ballad", this mexican music's theme was equivalent to gangster rap
- Narodni muzika - Serbian folk music
- Nasheed - a capella music closely related with Islamic revival in the 20th century
- Nashville Sound - pop-country music based out of Nashville, Tennessee
- Native American gospel - gospel music performed by Native Americans
- Nederpop - popular music of the Netherlands, especially in the Dutch language
- Néo kýma
- Neomelodici - modern Neapolitan pop songs
- Neo-classicism
- Neo-clerical ghazni
- Neo-ska - late 20th century revival of Jamaican ska
- Neo-swing - late 20th century revival of swing music
- Nerdcore hiphop
- Neue Deutsche Welle - a kind of German New Wave music
- Neue Volksmusik
- New Age music - numerous varieties of music associated with New Age spirituality and culture, especially including atmospheric and natural sounds
- New Instrumental
- New Jack Swing (New Jack R&B, Swingbeat) - late 1980s American fusion of hip hop music, R&B, doo wop and soul music
- New Orleans blues - piano and horn-heavy blues from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana
- New Orleans contemporary brass band
- New Orleans jazz
- New Romantic - popular British New Wave from the early 1980s
- New rumba
- New school hip hop - generic term for hip hop music recorded after about 1989
- New Taiwanese Song - modern Taiwanese pop music which combines ballads, rock and roll and hip hop
- New Wave bhangra (Fusion bhangra)
- New Wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) - mid- to late 1970s heavy metal coming out of the United Kingdom
- New Wave - melodious pop outgrowth of arty punk rock, also used as description of an emerging sound in any genre (e.g. Alpine New Wave)
- New York blues - jazzy, urban blues from the early 20th century
- Newbeat
- Newgrass - progressive bluegrass
- Nganja
- Nhac dan toc cai bien - modernized forms of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s
- Nhac tai tu - Vietnamese chamber music which accompanies cai luong
- Nha Nac
- Nisiótika - folk songs of the Greek islands
- No Wave - avant-garde late 1970s outgrowth of New Wave and punk rock
- Noh - highly-stylized Japanese theater and music style
- Noise music - style of avant-garde music, most closely associated with Japan
- Noise pop - experimental 1990s outgrowth of punk
- Noise rock - atonal punk rock from the 1980s
- Nongak - Korean folk music played by 20-30 performers on different kinds of percussion instruments
- Norae Undong - Korean rock music with socially aware lyrics
- Nortec - electronic style from Tijuana, Mexico
- Norteño (Tex-Mex) - Modernized corridos pop music of Mexico
- Northern harmony
- Northern Soul - late 1960s variety of soul music from northern England
- Northumbrian smallpipe music
- Nota
- Nova canção - popular 1950s and 60s fado in Portugal and folk-based singer-songwriters in Spain
- Novokomponovana narodna muzika - modernized Serbian folk music
- Nu breaks
- Nu jazz - fusion of late 1990s jazz and electronic music
- Nu metal - fusion of pop-heavy metal music with angst-ridden rapping
- Nu-NRG - a harder and faster version of Hi-NRG
- Nu soul (neo soul) - popular fusion of hip hop music and soul music
- Nueva canción - Chilean pop-folk music which influenced by native Chilean and Bolivian forms
- Nyingmapa chanting - form of highly rhythmic and elaborate Tibetan Buddhist chanting
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