List of styles of music: S–Z


S T U V W X Y Z


SaScSiSoStSy


  • UK bass – club music that emerged in the United Kingdom during the mid-2000s under the influence of genres such as house, grime, dubstep, UK garage, R&B, and wonky.
  • UK garage – a style of electronic music and an offshoot of garage house that usually features a distinctive 4/4 percussive rhythm with chopped up vocal samples.
  • UK hardcore
  • UK hard house
  • Unblack metal – black metal with lyrics that praise Christianity rather than criticizing it as opposed to black metal, which traditionally focuses on Satanism or anti-Christianity.
  • Underground music – music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture.
  • Uplifting trance
  • Urban Cowboy – a soft, mellow style of music that uses harmonious vocals with smooth synth sounds or rarely no music at all.
  • Urban Pasifika – a blend of hip-hop, reggae, and traditional Polynesian musical styles.
  • Xenomania – a music style created by Brian Higgins that has usually a strange and crazy feel to it.
  • Xoomii – a style of music which is produced by rolling the throat in ways to create an instrument-like sound to it.
  • Xote – is a Brazilian music genre and dance for pairs or groups of four.
  • Xhosa music
  • Xylophonecore – xylophone music mixed with electronic.

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