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{
  "total_main_genres": 49,
  "genres": [
    {
      "name": "ASMR",
      "description": "Recordings intended to induce a pleasurable tingling sensation in the listener.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/asmr/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ambient",
      "description": "Emphasizes texture and tone over traditional musical structure, aimed at evoking a particular atmosphere or mood.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ambient/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ambient Pop",
      "description": "Emphasizes texture and atmosphere with a degree of structural experimentation, drawing on Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, and Post-Rock while tending towards more minimal, repetitive arrangements which may incorporate elements of Electronic or Krautrock.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ambient-pop/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Audio Documentary",
      "description": "Form of documentary that uses audio to document or explore a subject or theme.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/audio-documentary/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Beatboxing",
      "description": "Form of vocal percussion developed during the 1980s, primarily involving the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one's mouth, lips, tongue, voice, and more.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/beatboxing/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Blues",
      "description": "Originated toward the end of the 19th century in African American communities in the United States, particularly the Deep South; drew on traditional Spirituals and Work Song; highly influential to the whole of Western popular music.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/blues/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bugle Call",
      "description": "Short tunes played on a bugle; used in militaries for communication.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/bugle-call/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Children's Music",
      "description": "Recorded for an intended audience of children.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/childrens-music/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Classical Music",
      "description": "Part of a broad generalization about the structure and function of music throughout history across the globe, describing traditions distinct from Traditional Folk Music and popular music.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/classical-music/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Comedy",
      "description": "Range of styles, both musical and non-musical, that always set out to make the listener laugh through humor.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/comedy/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country",
      "description": "American genre derived from Southern and Appalachian forms of American Folk Music and later Rock and Pop influences, with a focus on the life and culture of rural America.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dance",
      "description": "Rooted in Disco and developed largely within Electronic Dance Music; emphasizes rhythm and is generally produced for play by DJs at clubs, parties, or festivals.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dance/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dark Cabaret",
      "description": "Dark, moody style incorporating elements of Cabaret in a modern context, with varied instrumentation.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dark-cabaret/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Darkwave",
      "description": "Expands on the dark, introspective and sorrowful atmosphere of Gothic Rock; borrowing aspects from Electronic and other non-Rock influences.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/darkwave/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Easy Listening",
      "description": "Typically instrumental, including lush arrangements and melodies played by orchestras or big bands aiming for light entertainment.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/easy-listening/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Electronic",
      "description": "Uses non-traditional electronic instrumentation and sound manipulation technology as the primary backbone of a composition.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/electronic/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Experimental",
      "description": "Most radical approaches throughout history, featuring non-traditional production methods resulting in sounds and styles that go largely beyond traditional boundaries.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/experimental/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Recordings",
      "description": "Material recorded outside of a recording studio for the purpose of capturing the audible illustration of an environment.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/field-recordings/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Folk",
      "description": "Rooted in mostly oral traditions of the peoples of the world, encompassing international Traditional Folk Music as well as Western Contemporary Folk which arose in the 1940s.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/folk/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gospel",
      "description": "Arising from vocal Christian tradition often featuring emotive performances, layered accompaniments, and themes of faith and salvation.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/gospel/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hanmai",
      "description": "Chinese performance style featuring a performer shouting lyrics over an upbeat backing track.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/hanmai/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hip Hop",
      "description": "Emerged primarily on the United States East Coast in African-American communities in the late 1970s; emphasizes rhythmic beat patterns and a type of spoken vocal delivery known as rapping.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/hip-hop/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hymns",
      "description": "Performed and written with the purpose of praise, adoration, and prayer, often addressed to deities or other cultural figures.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/hymns/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Industrial & Noise",
      "description": "Umbrella encompassing Noise and Industrial, as well as later derivatives that combine the latter aesthetics with other styles and in more accessible directions which fall under Post-Industrial.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/industrial-and-noise/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jazz",
      "description": "Originating in African American communities in the Southern United States around the turn of the 20th century, building on New Orleans Brass Band ensemble and influences from Ragtime and Blues to become a very popular style by the emergence of Swing in the 1930s.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jazz/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jingles",
      "description": "Short, melodic phrases, traditionally used in advertisements, and later in ringtones and video games.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jingles/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mantra",
      "description": "Sounds, words or phrases, often repeatedly chanted, used in religions originating in the Indian subcontinent, and spiritual practices influenced by them.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mantra/"
    },
    {
      "name": "March",
      "description": "Strong and regular rhythm originally written to walk in step easier or to back events like parades or marches.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/march/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Marching Band",
      "description": "Covering the music of Western-derived marching bands, primarily used for entertainment, competition, military, and parade settings, typically involving large-scale orchestras featuring a variety of instruments.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/marching-band/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mashup",
      "description": "Songs created by mixing parts of two or more recordings together.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mashup/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mechanical Music",
      "description": "Generated by self-playing devices, which read and reproduce music through purely mechanical means with no major electronically controlled elements.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mechanical-music/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Metal",
      "description": "Driving and distorted riffs, aggressive drumming, vigorous vocals, and an all-around show of brute force in its early days, since branching into dozens of subgenres.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/metal/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Musical Theatre and Entertainment",
      "description": "Range of styles of theatre individually popular in the United States or in various countries in Europe, mostly from the 19th century to the mid-20th century.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/musical-theatre-and-entertainment/"
    },
    {
      "name": "New Age",
      "description": "Broad genre centered on peaceful, meditative melodies, using a wide variety of instrumentation.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/new-age/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Parlour Music",
      "description": "Early form of light, sentimental popular music; popular in USA and Europe from the late 1700s to the 1870s.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/parlour-music/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pop",
      "description": "Umbrella of popular styles closely tied to mass production and mass marketing, focusing on catchiness and accessibility through melody, rhythm, lyrics, and hooks.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/pop/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Psychedelia",
      "description": "Umbrella of styles intended to replicate or enhance the altered state of consciousness brought on by the use of psychedelic drugs, originating in the 1960s.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/psychedelia/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Punk",
      "description": "Musical and cultural product of Punk Rock known for its simplistic, brash playstyle and anti-establishment themes.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/punk/"
    },
    {
      "name": "R&B",
      "description": "Umbrella of styles covering the most popular forms of Black American music from the late 1940s, when the term Rhythm & Blues first appeared; includes the developments of Soul and Funk in the '60s and '70s, and the Contemporary R&B of the 1980s onward.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/randb/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Reggae / Ska / Dancehall",
      "description": "Umbrella for related forms of Jamaican Music which have grown beyond their regional roots to become global phenomena.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/reggae-ska-dancehall/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Regional Music",
      "description": "Music of regional cultural traditions, that is or was predominantly played and produced in these regions.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/regional-music/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rock",
      "description": "Typically uses a verse-chorus structure with a backbeat rhythm and the electric guitar at the forefront; generally heavier and/or faster than its predecessors.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/rock/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Singing Circle",
      "description": "Phenomenon that originally began in hippie gatherings, notably beginning with the counter-culture Rainbow Gatherings of the 1970s, features loose musical jams with varied and spontaneous performances.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-singing-circle/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Scenes & Movements",
      "description": "",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/scenes-and-movements/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Singer-Songwriter",
      "description": "Heavily focused on lyrics and songwriting, with musical accompaniment tending to take lower precedence.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/singer-songwriter/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sound Effects",
      "description": "Non-musical audio works, including recorded sounds and sounds recreated synthetically or by other means, which are either sounds of known objects or abstract noise manifestations.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sound-effects/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spoken Word",
      "description": "Usually unaccompanied vocal readings.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spoken-word/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Toypop",
      "description": "Avant-garde, naive, and child-like; explores the sonic capabilities of toy instruments.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/toypop/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Worldbeat",
      "description": "Pairs elements from diverse sources from across the globe with contemporary, uplifting Westernised production, created primarily for a Western audience.",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/worldbeat/"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "total_genres": 5947,
  "main_genres": 49,
  "sub_genres": 737,
  "detailed_genres": 5161,
  "last_updated": "2026-01-31 19:32:04",
  "source": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genres/",
  "usage": {
    "step1": "读取 _index.json 查看所有主分类",
    "step2": "读取 main/{genre-name}.json 查看直接子分类",
    "step3": "读取 detailed/{subgenre-name}.json 查看更深层级"
  }
}

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{
  "name": "Aboio",
  "description": "Cattle-herding songs originating in rural Northeastern Brazil.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/aboio/",
  "parent": "Brazilian Folk Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 6,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Aboio cantado",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/aboio-cantado/",
      "description": "Aboio that features rhyming verses.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Aboio"
    },
    {
      "name": "Aboio cantado",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/aboio-cantado/",
      "description": "Aboio that features rhyming verses.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Aboio"
    },
    {
      "name": "Aboio cantado",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/aboio-cantado/",
      "description": "Aboio that features rhyming verses.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Aboio"
    },
    {
      "name": "Aboio cantado",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/aboio-cantado/",
      "description": "Aboio that features rhyming verses.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Aboio"
    },
    {
      "name": "Aboio cantado",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/aboio-cantado/",
      "description": "Aboio that features rhyming verses.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Aboio"
    },
    {
      "name": "Aboio cantado",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/aboio-cantado/",
      "description": "Aboio that features rhyming verses.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Aboio"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Acholi Music",
  "description": "Music of the Acholi people, who inhabit a region known as “Acholiland,” spanning parts of northern Uganda and southern South Sudan.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acholi-music/",
  "parent": "East African Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 1,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Acholitronix",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acholitronix/",
      "description": "Fusion of traditional Acholi rhythms and melodies with Electronic production, originating in the city of Gulu.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Acholi Music"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Acoustic Blues",
  "description": "Developed out of Work Song and Spirituals to become the most prominent early form of Blues.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acoustic-blues/",
  "parent": "Blues",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 4,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Acoustic Chicago Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acoustic-chicago-blues/",
      "description": "Unplugged Blues made in the Chicago region, primarily during the 1930s and 1940s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    },
    {
      "name": "Acoustic Texas Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/acoustic-texas-blues/",
      "description": "Laid-back swing rhythms and guitar ornamentation, including solos.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    },
    {
      "name": "Piedmont Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/piedmont-blues/",
      "description": "Developed in the early 20th century in the southern Appalachian foothills and characterized by a syncopated but melodic Ragtime-based finger-picking acoustic guitar style.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Acoustic Blues"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "African Folk Music",
  "description": "Indigenous music of Africa that is passed down orally from generation to generation, the authors of the songs are usually unknown.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/african-folk-music/",
  "parent": "Traditional Folk Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 48,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Ambasse bey",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ambasse-bey/",
      "description": "African Folk Music developed by the Yabassi people of Cameroon.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ambasse bey",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ambasse-bey/",
      "description": "African Folk Music developed by the Yabassi people of Cameroon.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ambasse bey",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ambasse-bey/",
      "description": "African Folk Music developed by the Yabassi people of Cameroon.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Apala",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/apala/",
      "description": "Yoruba Music developed by Muslims during the late 1930s and early 1940s in the Ijebu region of Yorubaland, the current Ogun state.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Apala",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/apala/",
      "description": "Yoruba Music developed by Muslims during the late 1930s and early 1940s in the Ijebu region of Yorubaland, the current Ogun state.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Apala",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/apala/",
      "description": "Yoruba Music developed by Muslims during the late 1930s and early 1940s in the Ijebu region of Yorubaland, the current Ogun state.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Batuque",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/batuque/",
      "description": "Tradition from Cape Verde, unusual among the islands' music due to its lack of polyphonic singing and its usage of polyrhythms.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Batuque",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/batuque/",
      "description": "Tradition from Cape Verde, unusual among the islands' music due to its lack of polyphonic singing and its usage of polyrhythms.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Batuque",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/batuque/",
      "description": "Tradition from Cape Verde, unusual among the islands' music due to its lack of polyphonic singing and its usage of polyrhythms.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dagomba Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dagomba-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Dagomba people of northern Ghana.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dagomba Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dagomba-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Dagomba people of northern Ghana.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dagomba Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dagomba-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Dagomba people of northern Ghana.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gnawa",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/gnawa/",
      "description": "A mystical musical tradition centred around the qraqab castanets and guembri bass lute, named after its originators, the Afro-Maghrebi Gnawa people.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gnawa",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/gnawa/",
      "description": "A mystical musical tradition centred around the qraqab castanets and guembri bass lute, named after its originators, the Afro-Maghrebi Gnawa people.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gnawa",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/gnawa/",
      "description": "A mystical musical tradition centred around the qraqab castanets and guembri bass lute, named after its originators, the Afro-Maghrebi Gnawa people.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kabye Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kabye-folk-music/",
      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of the Kabye people of northern Togo, including some of the most singular styles that can be found in West Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
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    {
      "name": "Kabye Folk Music",
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      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of the Kabye people of northern Togo, including some of the most singular styles that can be found in West Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kabye Folk Music",
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      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of the Kabye people of northern Togo, including some of the most singular styles that can be found in West Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kilapanga",
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      "description": "Tradition of the Bakongo people from Angola and Congo that has influenced contemporary styles such as Kuduro.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kilapanga",
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      "description": "Tradition of the Bakongo people from Angola and Congo that has influenced contemporary styles such as Kuduro.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kilapanga",
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      "description": "Tradition of the Bakongo people from Angola and Congo that has influenced contemporary styles such as Kuduro.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Malagasy Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/malagasy-folk-music/",
      "description": "Melodic, chordophone-dominated sound; based on the Austronesian Music of the first settlers that arrived on the island from Borneo.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Malagasy Folk Music",
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      "description": "Melodic, chordophone-dominated sound; based on the Austronesian Music of the first settlers that arrived on the island from Borneo.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Malagasy Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/malagasy-folk-music/",
      "description": "Melodic, chordophone-dominated sound; based on the Austronesian Music of the first settlers that arrived on the island from Borneo.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mbenga-Mbuti Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mbenga-mbuti-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Mbenga and Mbuti people, Pygmy ethnic groups in Central Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mbenga-Mbuti Music",
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      "description": "Music of the Mbenga and Mbuti people, Pygmy ethnic groups in Central Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mbenga-Mbuti Music",
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      "description": "Music of the Mbenga and Mbuti people, Pygmy ethnic groups in Central Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Moutya",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/moutya/",
      "description": "Tradition that originated in Seychelles among Creole slaves, similar to Séga, although rawer and played only on large flat drums made from goatskin.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Moutya",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/moutya/",
      "description": "Tradition that originated in Seychelles among Creole slaves, similar to Séga, although rawer and played only on large flat drums made from goatskin.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Moutya",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/moutya/",
      "description": "Tradition that originated in Seychelles among Creole slaves, similar to Séga, although rawer and played only on large flat drums made from goatskin.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ngoma",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ngoma/",
      "description": "Played in Swahili-speaking African countries; primarily focused on rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ngoma",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ngoma/",
      "description": "Played in Swahili-speaking African countries; primarily focused on rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ngoma",
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      "description": "Played in Swahili-speaking African countries; primarily focused on rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Southern African Folk Music",
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      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of southern Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Southern African Folk Music",
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      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of southern Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Southern African Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/southern-african-folk-music/",
      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of southern Africa.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tchinkoumé",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tchinkoume/",
      "description": "Tradition from the central region of Benin around Savalou, played with water percussion.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tchinkoumé",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tchinkoume/",
      "description": "Tradition from the central region of Benin around Savalou, played with water percussion.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tchinkoumé",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tchinkoume/",
      "description": "Tradition from the central region of Benin around Savalou, played with water percussion.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Maloya",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-maloya/",
      "description": "Derived from Traditional Séga, this is the original dance music of La Réunion.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Maloya",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-maloya/",
      "description": "Derived from Traditional Séga, this is the original dance music of La Réunion.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Maloya",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-maloya/",
      "description": "Derived from Traditional Séga, this is the original dance music of La Réunion.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Séga",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-sega/",
      "description": "Séga dance music born in the 18th century, before its later adoption of Western pop elements.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Séga",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-sega/",
      "description": "Séga dance music born in the 18th century, before its later adoption of Western pop elements.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Séga",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-sega/",
      "description": "Séga dance music born in the 18th century, before its later adoption of Western pop elements.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Zinli",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/zinli/",
      "description": "Traditional rhythmic chanting and percussion adapted to multiple West African contexts in the 20th century.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Zinli",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/zinli/",
      "description": "Traditional rhythmic chanting and percussion adapted to multiple West African contexts in the 20th century.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Zinli",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/zinli/",
      "description": "Traditional rhythmic chanting and percussion adapted to multiple West African contexts in the 20th century.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "African Folk Music"
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{
  "name": "African Music",
  "description": "All forms with roots in Africa.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/african-music/",
  "parent": "Regional Music",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 11,
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      "name": "African Folk Music",
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      "description": "Indigenous music of Africa that is passed down orally from generation to generation, the authors of the songs are usually unknown.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
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    {
      "name": "Afro-Jazz",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/afro-jazz/",
      "description": "African-styled percussion and rhythms.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cape Verdean Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/cape-verdean-music/",
      "description": "Music developed in the archipelago of Cape Verde.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Central African Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/central-african-music/",
      "description": "Music of the areas speaking Adamawa-Eastern languages and many Bantu languages, through most of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, Republic of the Congo, most of the Central African Republic, and large parts of Cameroon, Angola, and the northern parts of Zambia.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "East African Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/east-african-music/",
      "description": "Traditions which originate from the eastern subregion of the African continent, encompassing a wide variety of cultures and styles.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Malagasy Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/malagasy-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Malagasy peoples.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "North African Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/north-african-music/",
      "description": "Music of North Africa.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Northeastern African Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/northeastern-african-music/",
      "description": "Music of Northeastern Africa.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Seychelles & Mascarene Islands Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/seychelles-and-mascarene-islands-music/",
      "description": "Styles from La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues, and Seychelles.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Southern African Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/southern-african-music/",
      "description": "Encompasses Southern African Folk Music and more modern genres, consisting in a specific style of a worldwide popular genre mixed with or rooted in a local traditional folk genre, through South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, southern Angola, and Matabeleland region in southern Zimbabwe.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "West African Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/west-african-music/",
      "description": "Traditional and regional popular music from the Western portion of Sub-Saharan Africa.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "African Music"
    }
  ]
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{
  "name": "Afro House",
  "description": "Emerged by fusing Deep House with Southern African Music, characterized by hypnotizing drum patterns of shakers and congas, often sampled African vocals or soulful original features, and spiritual, organic, melodic atmosphere.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/afro-house/",
  "parent": "House",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 2,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "3-Step",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/3-step/",
      "description": "Distinct three-kick-drum rhythm, blends influences from Amapiano and Broken Beat, resulting in relaxed, freeform, playful, Jazz-like feel.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Afro House"
    },
    {
      "name": "3-Step",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/3-step/",
      "description": "Distinct three-kick-drum rhythm, blends influences from Amapiano and Broken Beat, resulting in relaxed, freeform, playful, Jazz-like feel.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Afro House"
    }
  ]
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{
  "name": "Afrobeats",
  "description": "Originated in West Africa during the early 2010s and includes elements from Pop Rap, Contemporary R&B, and Dancehall.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/afrobeats/",
  "parent": "Pop",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 2,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Afropiano",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/afropiano/",
      "description": "Blends the easy-going, poppy, and melodic Afrobeats sound and rhythms with major Amapiano elements, like lush, jazzy, and laid-back atmospheres often featuring light piano chords.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Afrobeats"
    },
    {
      "name": "Alté",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alte/",
      "description": "More subdued, atmospheric, minimalist, and eclectic production and vocal styles compared to earlier styles, as well as more socially conscious lyrics.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Afrobeats"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Ainu Music",
  "description": "Music of the Ainu people from Hokkaidō, the Kuril Islands, and part of Sakhalin.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ainu-music/",
  "parent": "East Asian Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 4,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Upopo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/upopo/",
      "description": "Ainu everyday traditional song (as opposed to Yukar's sacred leanings).",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Ainu Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Upopo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/upopo/",
      "description": "Ainu everyday traditional song (as opposed to Yukar's sacred leanings).",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Ainu Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Yukar",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/yukar/",
      "description": "Oral literature pertaining to Ainu culture and mythology.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Ainu Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Yukar",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/yukar/",
      "description": "Oral literature pertaining to Ainu culture and mythology.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Ainu Music"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Akan Music",
  "description": "Music of the Akan people of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, including a variety of traditional and neo-traditional styles which are based on some of the oldest traditions in West Africa.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/akan-music/",
  "parent": "West African Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 2,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Kete",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kete/",
      "description": "Traditional percussive style played at special occasions in the courts of high ranking Asante chieftains.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Akan Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Zoblazo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/zoblazo/",
      "description": "Ivorian dance music combining traditional instruments and synthesizers that emerged in the late 1980s.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Akan Music"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Alpine Folk Music",
  "description": "Traditional Folk Music of the Alps, including parts of Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Italy.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alpine-folk-music/",
  "parent": "European Folk Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 12,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Canto degli Alpini",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/canto-degli-alpini/",
      "description": "Created and traditionally sung by choirs formed from the Italian army's Alpine mountain infantry corps, mainly dating back to WWI.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Canto degli Alpini",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/canto-degli-alpini/",
      "description": "Created and traditionally sung by choirs formed from the Italian army's Alpine mountain infantry corps, mainly dating back to WWI.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Canto degli Alpini",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/canto-degli-alpini/",
      "description": "Created and traditionally sung by choirs formed from the Italian army's Alpine mountain infantry corps, mainly dating back to WWI.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ländler",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/landler/",
      "description": "Swiss-German dance band music based on the accordion, combining traditional Alpine Folk Music with elements from Schlager and Jazz.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ländler",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/landler/",
      "description": "Swiss-German dance band music based on the accordion, combining traditional Alpine Folk Music with elements from Schlager and Jazz.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ländler",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/landler/",
      "description": "Swiss-German dance band music based on the accordion, combining traditional Alpine Folk Music with elements from Schlager and Jazz.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Narodno zabavna glasba",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/narodno-zabavna-glasba/",
      "description": "Modernised form of Slovenian Folk Music from the Alpine region of Upper Carniola (Oberkrain).",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Narodno zabavna glasba",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/narodno-zabavna-glasba/",
      "description": "Modernised form of Slovenian Folk Music from the Alpine region of Upper Carniola (Oberkrain).",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Narodno zabavna glasba",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/narodno-zabavna-glasba/",
      "description": "Modernised form of Slovenian Folk Music from the Alpine region of Upper Carniola (Oberkrain).",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Naturjodel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/naturjodel/",
      "description": "Originated in Toggenburg and Appenzell in Switzerland; deep vocal range, relaxed voice, free tempo, polyphony, elongated notes, improvisation, glissando, and use of syllabic sounds.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Naturjodel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/naturjodel/",
      "description": "Originated in Toggenburg and Appenzell in Switzerland; deep vocal range, relaxed voice, free tempo, polyphony, elongated notes, improvisation, glissando, and use of syllabic sounds.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Naturjodel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/naturjodel/",
      "description": "Originated in Toggenburg and Appenzell in Switzerland; deep vocal range, relaxed voice, free tempo, polyphony, elongated notes, improvisation, glissando, and use of syllabic sounds.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alpine Folk Music"
    }
  ]
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{
  "name": "Alt-Country",
  "description": "Arose in the 1980s and 1990s, performed by artists with roots in Alternative Rock and Indie Rock who were disconnected from the mainstream Country industry.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alt-country/",
  "parent": "Country",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 2,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Gothic Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/gothic-country/",
      "description": "Evokes the Southern Gothic literary genre through morbid lyrical themes and melancholic sounds that emphasize its American Folk Music and Post-Punk influences.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alt-Country"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gothic Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/gothic-country/",
      "description": "Evokes the Southern Gothic literary genre through morbid lyrical themes and melancholic sounds that emphasize its American Folk Music and Post-Punk influences.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Alt-Country"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Alternative Dance",
  "description": "Incorporates rhythms and synthesizers from Electronic Dance Music within the context of Alternative Rock and related styles; predominantly popular in the 1990s.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alternative-dance/",
  "parent": "Dance",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 4,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Grebo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/grebo/",
      "description": "Short-lived English subculture and associated music; raw, futuristic, sample-heavy form of Alternative Dance with a dirty guitar sound.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Dance"
    },
    {
      "name": "Grebo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/grebo/",
      "description": "Short-lived English subculture and associated music; raw, futuristic, sample-heavy form of Alternative Dance with a dirty guitar sound.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Alternative Dance"
    },
    {
      "name": "New Rave",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/new-rave/",
      "description": "High energy mid-2000s style combining the tight and punchy grooves of Dance-Punk Revival with synths and four-on-the-floor rhythms from genres like Electroclash and Electro House.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Dance"
    },
    {
      "name": "New Rave",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/new-rave/",
      "description": "High energy mid-2000s style combining the tight and punchy grooves of Dance-Punk Revival with synths and four-on-the-floor rhythms from genres like Electroclash and Electro House.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Alternative Dance"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Alternative Metal",
  "description": "Mid-tempo style emphasizing melodicism and rhythmic heaviness; branches outside of the stylistic conventions of Metal.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alternative-metal/",
  "parent": "Metal",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 8,
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      "name": "Funk Metal",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/funk-metal/",
      "description": "Melds Funk Rock grooves with slap basslines and metallic guitarwork.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
    },
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      "name": "Funk Metal",
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      "description": "Melds Funk Rock grooves with slap basslines and metallic guitarwork.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
    },
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      "name": "Neue Deutsche Härte",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/neue-deutsche-harte/",
      "description": "Alternative Metal and Industrial Metal that incorporates various aspects of electronic music, specifically Electronic Dance Music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Neue Deutsche Härte",
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      "description": "Alternative Metal and Industrial Metal that incorporates various aspects of electronic music, specifically Electronic Dance Music.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nu Metal",
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      "description": "Emphasizes bouncy, drop-tuned riffs, alternating vocal styles, and genre-bending, often incorporating Hip Hop and Funk Metal elements.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nu Metal",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nu-metal/",
      "description": "Emphasizes bouncy, drop-tuned riffs, alternating vocal styles, and genre-bending, often incorporating Hip Hop and Funk Metal elements.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rap Metal",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/rap-metal/",
      "description": "Features rapped vocals, typically formed around heavy, mid-tempo, and groove-oriented playing in addition to elements of Hip Hop beats such as record scratching.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rap Metal",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/rap-metal/",
      "description": "Features rapped vocals, typically formed around heavy, mid-tempo, and groove-oriented playing in addition to elements of Hip Hop beats such as record scratching.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Alternative Metal"
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{
  "name": "Alternative Rock",
  "description": "Performed with a less commercial sensibility, utilizing more eccentric, Punk-influenced sounds, moodier or quirkier lyricism, and sometimes ample amounts of distortion, often paired with Pop-influenced songwriting.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alternative-rock/",
  "parent": "Rock",
  "level": "sub",
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      "name": "Alternative Dance",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/alternative-dance/",
      "description": "Incorporates rhythms and synthesizers from Electronic Dance Music within the context of Alternative Rock and related styles; predominantly popular in the 1990s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Britpop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/britpop/",
      "description": "Emerged in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, with a style hearkening back to the traditional guitar-driven songs and melodic hooks found in the British Pop Rock of the 1960s.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dream Pop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/dream-pop/",
      "description": "Reverberated guitars, effects-laden vocals, and dense productions, creating a psychedelic, spacious, and dreamlike sound.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Emo-Pop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/emo-pop/",
      "description": "Mainstream derivative of Emo, puts more emphasis on the poppy sensibilities of Alternative Rock and Pop Punk.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Geek Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/geek-rock/",
      "description": "Emphasizes a nerdy aesthetic, incorporating synthesizers and other instrumentation less common in Alternative Rock alongside quirky Pop-oriented songwriting and dense, witty lyricism on unconventional topics.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
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      "name": "Grunge",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/grunge/",
      "description": "Mixes Punk and Metal sensibilities into a mid-tempo approach featuring a heavy, \"sludgy\" guitar sound, \"raspy\" vocals and angsty lyricism.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Indie Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/indie-rock/",
      "description": "Associated with a less mainstream-oriented and a DIY approach while often dabbling in Pop-informed melodic songwriting, eclecticism, and adopting an \"authentic\" or raw style.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jangle Pop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jangle-pop/",
      "description": "Treble-heavy guitars with arpeggiated melodies, distinct basslines, and often propulsive, repetitive strum-rhythms; frequently influenced by Post-Punk.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mall Screamo",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mall-screamo/",
      "description": "Heavy instrumentation, melodic verse-chorus songwriting, and expressive singing contrasted with screaming vocals.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Post-Britpop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/post-britpop/",
      "description": "Emerged in the late 1990s as a Britpop expansion mainly characterized by acoustic-leaning instrumentation, lush string arrangements, and mid-tempo song structures, as well as less apparent lyrical concerns for Britain in favor of introspective, contemplative themes.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Post-Grunge",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/post-grunge/",
      "description": "Streamlined derivative of Grunge mixing crunchy guitar riffs with more accessible, hook-based structures.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shimokita-kei",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shimokita-kei/",
      "description": "Japanese style closely related to the Shimokitazawa indie scene, featuring Pop-informed songwriting, melodic guitar leads, expressive vocals, and often loud, prominent overdriven guitars.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shoegaze",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shoegaze/",
      "description": "Dense, noisy, and ethereal washes of sound primarily created with electric guitars and heavy use of effects pedals, such as fuzz, reverb, chorus, and delay, with vocals serving as a dreamy, usually unintelligible melodic layer.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Alternative Rock"
    }
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{
  "name": "Amapiano",
  "description": "House from South Africa deriving from previous popular genres including Gqom, Kwaito, and Deep House.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/amapiano/",
  "parent": "House",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 3,
  "children": [
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      "name": "Afropiano",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/afropiano/",
      "description": "Blends the easy-going, poppy, and melodic Afrobeats sound and rhythms with major Amapiano elements, like lush, jazzy, and laid-back atmospheres often featuring light piano chords.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amapiano"
    },
    {
      "name": "Afropiano",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/afropiano/",
      "description": "Blends the easy-going, poppy, and melodic Afrobeats sound and rhythms with major Amapiano elements, like lush, jazzy, and laid-back atmospheres often featuring light piano chords.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amapiano"
    },
    {
      "name": "Afropiano",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/afropiano/",
      "description": "Blends the easy-going, poppy, and melodic Afrobeats sound and rhythms with major Amapiano elements, like lush, jazzy, and laid-back atmospheres often featuring light piano chords.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amapiano"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Amazigh Music",
  "description": "Music of the Amazigh people, the indigenous people of Northwest Africa (with main hubs in Morocco and Algeria) and certain parts of West Africa.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/amazigh-music/",
  "parent": "North African Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 6,
  "children": [
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      "name": "Ahwash",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ahwash/",
      "description": "Associated with the Tashelhit-speaking peoples of southern and central Morocco, and performed in large groups, combining singing, poetry and drumming.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amazigh Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Izlan",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/izlan/",
      "description": "Uses sung poetry with a focus on love themes.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amazigh Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kabyle Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kabyle-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Kabyle Amazigh people.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amazigh Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sahrawi Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sahrawi-music/",
      "description": "Music of the Sahrawi people, an ethnic group who inhabit the westernmost areas of the Sahara Desert.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amazigh Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Staïfi",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/staifi/",
      "description": "Festive Chaoui genre that mixes local rural music with the zendali rhythm and modern instruments.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amazigh Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tuareg Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tuareg-music/",
      "description": "Amazigh Music by the nomadic Tuareg people who live through the Saharan desert in North Africa, encompassing various types of traditions and popular styles.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Amazigh Music"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "American Folk Music",
  "description": "Traces back through the history of European and West African settlement and migration to North America, including parts of northern Mexico and Canada in addition to the United States.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/american-folk-music/",
  "parent": "Traditional Folk Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 36,
  "children": [
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      "name": "Appalachian Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/appalachian-folk-music/",
      "description": "Folk of the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Appalachian Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/appalachian-folk-music/",
      "description": "Folk of the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Appalachian Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/appalachian-folk-music/",
      "description": "Folk of the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-blues/",
      "description": "Various styles of Blues originating in the rural US South, typically relying on expressive vocal delivery and featuring simple, usually acoustic instrumentation.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-blues/",
      "description": "Various styles of Blues originating in the rural US South, typically relying on expressive vocal delivery and featuring simple, usually acoustic instrumentation.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Country Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/country-blues/",
      "description": "Various styles of Blues originating in the rural US South, typically relying on expressive vocal delivery and featuring simple, usually acoustic instrumentation.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Hollers",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/field-hollers/",
      "description": "Created by African-American slaves working on cotton plantations, featuring expressive vocals to no strict rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Hollers",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/field-hollers/",
      "description": "Created by African-American slaves working on cotton plantations, featuring expressive vocals to no strict rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Hollers",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/field-hollers/",
      "description": "Created by African-American slaves working on cotton plantations, featuring expressive vocals to no strict rhythm.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fife and Drum Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fife-and-drum-blues/",
      "description": "Rooted in martial Fife and Drum Corps music, originated among Afro-American communities in Mississippi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fife and Drum Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fife-and-drum-blues/",
      "description": "Rooted in martial Fife and Drum Corps music, originated among Afro-American communities in Mississippi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fife and Drum Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fife-and-drum-blues/",
      "description": "Rooted in martial Fife and Drum Corps music, originated among Afro-American communities in Mississippi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jug Band",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jug-band/",
      "description": "Usually features a jug as the bass instrument as well as other homemade (or easily affordable) instruments, such as kazoos and washboards.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ring Shout",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ring-shout/",
      "description": "Ritual practiced by African-Americans in the US South, characterized by shouting, chanting and people dancing in a circle while praying and clapping.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ring Shout",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ring-shout/",
      "description": "Ritual practiced by African-Americans in the US South, characterized by shouting, chanting and people dancing in a circle while praying and clapping.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ring Shout",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ring-shout/",
      "description": "Ritual practiced by African-Americans in the US South, characterized by shouting, chanting and people dancing in a circle while praying and clapping.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Harp Singing",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-harp-singing/",
      "description": "Predominantly 19th-century English hymns with tunes derived from old folk melodies.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Harp Singing",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-harp-singing/",
      "description": "Predominantly 19th-century English hymns with tunes derived from old folk melodies.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sacred Harp Singing",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sacred-harp-singing/",
      "description": "Predominantly 19th-century English hymns with tunes derived from old folk melodies.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spirituals",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spirituals/",
      "description": "Predecessor to Gospel that began as unaccompanied singing by American slaves; shares some of the characteristics of Work Song.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spirituals",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spirituals/",
      "description": "Predecessor to Gospel that began as unaccompanied singing by American slaves; shares some of the characteristics of Work Song.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Spirituals",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/spirituals/",
      "description": "Predecessor to Gospel that began as unaccompanied singing by American slaves; shares some of the characteristics of Work Song.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Talking Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/talking-blues/",
      "description": "American Folk Music with spoken or nearly spoken vocals; often features dry humor and social commentary.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Talking Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/talking-blues/",
      "description": "American Folk Music with spoken or nearly spoken vocals; often features dry humor and social commentary.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Talking Blues",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/talking-blues/",
      "description": "American Folk Music with spoken or nearly spoken vocals; often features dry humor and social commentary.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Black Gospel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-black-gospel/",
      "description": "Born out of Spirituals in the early 20th century with influence from Southern Gospel and Blues, often featuring passionate or energetic vocal performances, motifs of salvation, and testaments of hardship.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Black Gospel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-black-gospel/",
      "description": "Born out of Spirituals in the early 20th century with influence from Southern Gospel and Blues, often featuring passionate or energetic vocal performances, motifs of salvation, and testaments of hardship.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Black Gospel",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-black-gospel/",
      "description": "Born out of Spirituals in the early 20th century with influence from Southern Gospel and Blues, often featuring passionate or energetic vocal performances, motifs of salvation, and testaments of hardship.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Cajun Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-cajun-music/",
      "description": "Earliest and most \"pure\" form of Cajun Music, employing basic rhythms and frequent fiddle double stops.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Cajun Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-cajun-music/",
      "description": "Earliest and most \"pure\" form of Cajun Music, employing basic rhythms and frequent fiddle double stops.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Cajun Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-cajun-music/",
      "description": "Earliest and most \"pure\" form of Cajun Music, employing basic rhythms and frequent fiddle double stops.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-country/",
      "description": "Closely aligned with American Folk Music and Blues roots, from country's inception in Appalachia and the American South until the popularity of Honky Tonk and Country Pop in the 1950s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-country/",
      "description": "Closely aligned with American Folk Music and Blues roots, from country's inception in Appalachia and the American South until the popularity of Honky Tonk and Country Pop in the 1950s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Traditional Country",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/traditional-country/",
      "description": "Closely aligned with American Folk Music and Blues roots, from country's inception in Appalachia and the American South until the popularity of Honky Tonk and Country Pop in the 1950s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "American Folk Music"
    }
  ]
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{
  "name": "Ancient Music",
  "description": "Umbrella term encompassing all the genres coming after the Prehistoric Music and before the Medieval music eras from ancient civilizations, roughly before 500 CE, following the Western Classical Music point of view with the date of the Roman Empire fall (476 CE).",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ancient-music/",
  "parent": "Regional Music",
  "level": "sub",
  "children_count": 7,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Ancient Chinese Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ancient-chinese-music/",
      "description": "Covers a very large era of creation from approximately 2100 BCE to 200 CE.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Ancient Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ancient Egyptian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ancient-egyptian-music/",
      "description": "Music of ancient Egyptian civilization.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Ancient Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ancient Greek Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ancient-greek-music/",
      "description": "Music of ancient Greek civilization.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Ancient Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ancient Levitical Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ancient-levitical-music/",
      "description": "Reconstruction of Jerusalem temple music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Ancient Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ancient Roman Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ancient-roman-music/",
      "description": "Music of ancient Roman civilization.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Ancient Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hyang-ak",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/hyang-ak/",
      "description": "One of the most common and oldest surviving forms of Korean court music.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Ancient Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mesopotamian Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/mesopotamian-music/",
      "description": "Music of Mesopotamia, a historical region situated in West Asia within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, comprises the heritage of Sumerians and Akkadians.",
      "level": "sub-2",
      "parent": "Ancient Music"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Animal Sounds",
  "description": "Recordings which are done in order to capture sounds produced by animals.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/animal-sounds/",
  "parent": "Nature Recordings",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 3,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Bird Sounds",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/bird-sounds/",
      "description": "Recordings of birds, including vocalizations (songs and calls) and mechanical sounds produced by bills, wings, or feathers.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Animal Sounds"
    },
    {
      "name": "Insect Sounds",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/insect-sounds/",
      "description": "Recordings that capture the sounds produced by insects.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Animal Sounds"
    },
    {
      "name": "Whale Song",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/whale-song/",
      "description": "Low-frequency, complex vocalizations produced by baleen whales.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Animal Sounds"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Appalachian Folk Music",
  "description": "Folk of the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/appalachian-folk-music/",
  "parent": "American Folk Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 3,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Old-Time",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/old-time/",
      "description": "Pre-Bluegrass North American string band styles, particularly those rooted in Appalachian Folk Music.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Appalachian Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Old-Time",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/old-time/",
      "description": "Pre-Bluegrass North American string band styles, particularly those rooted in Appalachian Folk Music.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Appalachian Folk Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Old-Time",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/old-time/",
      "description": "Pre-Bluegrass North American string band styles, particularly those rooted in Appalachian Folk Music.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Appalachian Folk Music"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "name": "Arabic Bellydance Music",
  "description": "Accompaniment to traditional belly dances.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/arabic-bellydance-music/",
  "parent": "Arabic Folk Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 3,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Raqs baladi",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/raqs-baladi/",
      "description": "Egyptian folk dance and its associated musical accompaniment, appearing in the 20th century.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Arabic Bellydance Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Raqs baladi",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/raqs-baladi/",
      "description": "Egyptian folk dance and its associated musical accompaniment, appearing in the 20th century.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Arabic Bellydance Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Raqs baladi",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/raqs-baladi/",
      "description": "Egyptian folk dance and its associated musical accompaniment, appearing in the 20th century.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Arabic Bellydance Music"
    }
  ]
}