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Genre
Genre (along with its doublet, gender) is an abstract concept which is difficult-to-pin down and hard-to-universally-define due to the way it varies from culture to culture and from medium to medium. But as a whole, it can largely be understood as:
- a type
- a category
- an aesthetic
- a mode
- a tradition
- an expectation
- a format
In terms of music, itself a genre of art, genre typically refers to something about:
- the way it's composed
- the instrumentation used
- the production style
- the vocal style or lyrics
- the place and time it's from
Some of the most commonly known genres of music include: