Genres
The following is a list extracted from the "Music Categories" field of the NCTA database. It is provided to show the types of classification that NCTA's events covered - musical styles, dance, crafts, and other arts. Nearly every recording and track has at least one of these terms applied to it. See Access and Restrictions section for more information about the NCTA database.
- A Cappella Gospel Music
- Acadian
- Acadian French music and dance
- Accordion - Various Styles
- Accordion music
- Accordion: Fraco-American
- Accordion-Brazilian Forró
- Accordion-Cajun
- Accordion-Conjunto Tejano
- Accordion-Gypsy Jazz
- Accordion-Irish
- Accordion-Polish Polka
- Accordion-Québécois
- Afghan music and dance
- African - Central African
- African - country not specified
- African - Ghana
- African - Senegalese
- African American Dance - Steppers
- African American String Band
- African dance
- African Jazz Ensemble
- African Music
- African-American - Georgia Sea Islands
- African-American - Hambone
- African-American Children's Games
- African-American Gospel Brass Band
- African-American Gospel Choir
- African-American Quilter
- African-American Railroad Worksong
- African-American Ring-Shout
- African-American Sea Chanteys
- Afro-American String Band
- Afro-Brazilian
- Afro-Cuban
- Afro-Cuban bembe
- Afro-Cuban Drumming
- Alaskan regalia maker
- Alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery
- American Country Painting
- American Folk Music
- American Indian - Lakota Sioux Flute
- American Indian - Ojibwe Storyteller
- American Indian/European fiddle & dance
- American Indian: Dakota Sioux
- American Lumberjacks
- American Piano Masters
- American Popular Music
- Andean
- Anglo Stoneware Potter
- Anglo-American Quilter
- Anglo-American String Band Music
- Anglo-American Whittler
- Animal Imitations
- Apache Basketweaver
- Apache fiddle maker
- Appalachian Ballads
- Appalachian banjo
- Appalachian Fiddle
- Appalachian Guitar
- Appalachian Music
- Appalachian Musician
- Appalachian Old Time Banjo
- Appalachian singer-songwriter
- Appalachian Songs & Ballads
- Appalachian-Fiddle
- Appalacian Program
- Arabic Music
- Armenian
- Artful Juggling, music, and more
- Auctioneering
- Audience Sounds
- Austrian
- Autoharp
- Bahamian Junkanoo Parade Band
- Balinese Dance
- Balladry
- Balladry - Appalachian
- Ballads
- Banjo - 2-finger style
- Banjo - 3-finger style
- Banjo - Appalachian Style
- Banjo - bare 3-finger style
- Banjo - classical style
- Banjo - flat-picked
- Banjo - frailing style
- Banjo - Melodic or Fiddle Style
- Banjo - New Directions
- Banjo - stroke style
- banjo - various styles
- Banjo tunes & songs
- Banjo: 2-finger style
- Banjo: clawhammer-style
- Banjo-bluegrass
- Banjo-Charlie Poole style
- Banjo-Crucian "Scratch"
- Banjo-Irish
- Banjo-minstrel
- Banjo-New Orleans Jazz
- Barbershop Quartet
- Basque
- Bengali folk music
- Bharata Natyam
- Bird imitations
- Black gospel on lap steel guitar
- Black String Band
- Black Stringband Violin
- Blacksmith from Chamorra
- Blue Ridge Piano Style
- Bluegrass
- Bluegrass - Banjo
- Bluegrass - Fiddle
- Bluegrass - Guitar
- Bluegrass & Country Music
- Bluegrass Gospel
- Bluegrass/Old-Time
- Bluegrass-mandolin
- Blues
- Blues - Boogie
- Blues - Country
- Blues - Delta
- Blues - Detroit
- Blues - Electric
- Blues - Mississippi Delta
- Blues - Piedmont
- Blues - Texas Blues
- Blues - Tidewater
- Blues - Violin
- Blues and R & B
- Blues piano player & singer
- Blues-Piano
- Bobbin Lacemaker - German-American
- Bomba y plena, salsa
- Bones
- Boogie Woogie Piano
- Brass Band
- Brass Quintet
- Brazilian Capoeira
- Brazilian Forró
- Brazilian Music
- Brazilian Percussion Ensemble
- Brother-style Country duet
- Buck and Tap Dance
- Buck Dance
- Bukharan Jewish Music
- Bulgarian
- Bulgarian Wedding Music
- Button Box Music
- Cajun
- Cajun Gypsy Swing
- Cajun Zydeco
- Calentana mexicana
- Calypso
- Cambodian
- Cambodian - Dance and Music
- Cambodian - traditional Khmer
- Cambodian Classical Dance
- Cambodian Court Dancer / Coreographer
- Cambodian Folk Dance & Music
- Cambodian musician & teacher
- Cambodian Silk Weaver
- Cambodian Traditional Music
- Canada-Ballad Traditions
- Canadian Dance
- Canary Island Singer
- Candy Maker
- Cape Breton
- Cape Breton Music and Dance
- Cape Breton song, music and dance
- Cape Verdean Funana
- Cape Verdean Morna
- Cape Verdean Music
- Caribbean Steel Pan
- Caribbean-Dominican Merengue
- Carnival maskmaker - Puerto Rico
- Ceilidh Dance
- Celtic
- Central Asian Throat Singing
- Cherokee Storyteller, Musician, and Dancer
- Cherokee Tales
- Chiapanecan Marimba
- Chicano Singer, Musician, & Composer
- Children's music with guitar
- Chinese Classical Music
- Chinese dulcimer (yang qin)
- Chinese Dulcimer Ensemble
- Chinese guzheng performer
- Chinese Hammered Dulcimer
- Chinese Lion Dance
- Chinese Music
- Chinese Opera
- Chinese Pipa
- Chinese Rod Puppetry
- Chinese Zither & Hammered Dulcimer
- Chinese zither and hammer dulcimer musician
- Chinese-Erhu (strings)
- Choral Singing
- Classic Blues
- Classic Tab Dancing
- Classical Banjo
- Classical Folk Dances of India
- Clawhammer Banjo
- Clog Dancing
- Clown
- Coiled Basketry
- Colombian Harp
- Colombian Vallenato
- Columbian Dance Music
- Comanche Flute
- Community Band
- Congolese Drumming & Dance
- Congolese rumba
- Congolese soukous
- Conjunto
- Conjunto Norteño
- Contra Dance
- Cook - Moroccan
- Cook-French
- Cook-Native American
- Cook-Puerton Rican
- Cook-Vietnamese
- Corona Maker, Mexican-American
- Country
- Country - Classic
- Country - Honky Tonk
- Country & Western
- Country Duet Singing -Brother Style
- Country Gospel
- Country Singing
- Country, folk, bluegrass
- Cowboy
- Cowboy Poet
- Craft- ukulele builder
- Craft-banjo builder
- Craft-Bobbin Lace "Mundillo"
- Craft-classical guitar builder
- Craft-Diving Helmet Maker
- Craft-fiddle maker
- Craft-hammock weaver
- Craft-hardanger fiddle maker
- Craft-harp builder
- Craft-mandolin builder
- Craft-Navajo Weaver
- Craft-Paper Cutting Artist & Altarista
- Craft-Passamaquoddy Basketry
- Craft-Penobscot Root Club
- Crafts - Armenian lacemaker
- Crafts - basketmaking
- Crafts - Laotian weaver
- Crafts - Lithuanian weaver
- Crafts - Lowell textile worker
- Crafts - netmaking
- Crafts - Woodcarving
- Crafts-Acadian rug making, knitting, weaving
- Craft-Salish Beadwork & Tanning
- Crafts-Decorative Building Craftsman
- Crafts-instrument building
- Crafts-Orthodox Byzantine icon Woodcarving
- Crafts-snowshoe making
- Crafts-weaver
- Craft-Traditional Drums
- Craft-weaver, singer, storyteller
- Creole & Zydeco
- Creole and Cajun a capella singing
- Croatian
- Croatian Dance
- Crucian
- Crucian "Scratch"
- Crucian Music
- Crucian singer - Virgin Islands
- Cuatro Maker
- Cuban Soneros
- Czech puppeteer
- Czech Puppetry
- Czech-American Bobbin Lace Maker
- Czechoslovakian Dance
- Dabke (also debke, dabka, dabkeh)
- Dance - Flatfoot
- Dance - Native American
- Dance - Square and Contra
- Dance - Tap
- Dance from Hawaii & South India
- Dance Instructor
- Dance-appalachian
- Dance-Carolinian Stick Dance
- Dance-Hip Hop
- Dance-Latin
- Dance-Lindy Hop
- Dances of South Asia
- Dance-various
- Decoy Carver
- Dixieland Jazz
- Dobro guitar
- Dominican merengue
- doo-wop
- Dulcimer-Various Styles
- Dutch Hop
- East Indian Folk Dance
- East Indian Music And Dance
- Eastern European Folk Songs
- Eastern European Music
- English and Scottish Songs and Ballads
- English ballads and sea shanties
- English Folk Dance
- English Songs and Ballads
- Ethiopian
- Ethiopian krar music
- Ethiopian Spiritual Music
- European Folk Music
- Fiddle - Missouri
- Fiddle - Shenandoah Style
- "Fiddle - Various Styles
- Fiddle - Various Styles"
- Fiddle - Western Canadian
- Fiddle - Western Longbow
- Fiddle-Acadian
- Fiddle-Armenian
- Fiddle-Bluegrass
- Fiddle-Cajun
- Fiddle-Cape Breton
- Fiddle-Creole & Zydeco
- Fiddle-Eastern European
- Fiddle-Franco-American
- Fiddle-Franco-Canadian
- Fiddle-Gypsy Jazz
- Fiddle-Irish
- Fiddle-Jazz
- Fiddle-Klezmer
- Fiddle-Mariachi
- Fiddle-Old Time
- Fiddle-Québécois
- Fiddle-Scottish
- Fiddle-Western Swing
- Fife and Drum
- Filipino Music and Dance
- Finnish Accordion
- Finnish Folk Dance
- Finnish Folk Music
- Finnish Harmonica
- Finnish kantele (lap harp) player
- Fisher Poet
- Flamenco song, music & dance
- Flute-Irish
- Flying Indian Pole Dance
- Folk & Traditional Music
- Folk Violin
- Folklorist, advocate, and presenter
- Franco-American
- Franco-American songs
- Franco-American step dance
- Franco-Canadian step dance
- Franco-Canadian: Acadian
- Franco-Canadian: Fiddle
- Franco-Canadian: French Canadian
- French
- French - Acadian
- French - traditional folk music
- French traditional music
- French-Canadian Music
- French-Canadian Stepdance
- Gambian
- Gamelan Mitra Kusuma
- Games - Children's
- Garifuna - Belize coastal drumming and dancing
- Georgia Sea Island Singers
- German-American concertina maker
- German-Russian
- German-Russian Dutch Hop Music
- Ghanaian Palmwine Guitar Music
- Go Go Music - Junk Funk
- Go Go Music - Junkyard Music
- Go-Go Music
- Gospel
- Gospel - Shape Note Singing - Native American
- Gospel - African American
- Gospel - African-American a cappella Gospel
- Gospel - Appalachian
- Gospel - Brass Band
- Gospel - Detroit
- Gospel - Jubilee
- Gospel - Various Styles
- Gospel Brass Band
- Gospel -Shape Note Singing
- Gospel Steel Guitar
- Gospel Various Styles
- Gospel, rhythm & blues singer
- gourd
- Great Britain - folk music
- Greek
- Greek - Pontiaki and Rebetica Music
- Greek - Pontic
- Greek - Traditional Music
- Greek Rembetica
- Greek Smyrneika
- Guatemalan-Marimba
- Guinean Dancer, Musician & Composer
- Guitar - Cajun
- Guitar - Flatpicking
- Guitar - Irish
- Guitar - Lap Steel
- Guitar - Resophonic
- Guitar - Thumb Style
- Guitar - Travis-style
- Guitar - US
- guitar various styles
- Guitar-Bluegrass
- Guitar-Blues
- Guitar-Country
- Guitar-finger picking
- Guitar-gospel
- Guitar-Gypsy Jazz
- Guitar-Sacred Steel
- Guitar-Western Swing
- Gujarati Music And Dance
- Gypsy Jazz
- Haida (Native Alaskan) weaver
- Haiku Poet & Historian
- Haitian
- Haitian misik rasin
- Haitian rara
- Haitian Twobadou
- Harmonica
- Harp
- Hawaiian
- Hawaiian - song
- Hawaiian - Traditional
- Hawaiian Chanter
- Hawaiian Hula - dance and music
- Hawaiian Lei Maker
- Hawaiian Musician, Composer & Filmmaker
- Hawaiian quiltmaking
- Hawaiian Singers
- Hawaiian-Slack-key guitar
- Hip-Hop
- Hispanic Music
- Hispanic weaver
- Hispanic-American Rawhide Worker
- Hmong
- Hmong weaver/embroiderer
- Hollering
- Honky-tonk Country
- Hooked Rug Design
- Humor
- Humorist
- Hungarian Gypsy
- Indian
- Indian - Kalbelia Dance and Music
- Indian Bamboo Flutes
- Indian-Indian Dance Ensemble
- Instrument Maker
- Intermission
- Interview
- Inuit Throat Singing
- Inupiaq Eskimo
- Inupiat Doll Maker
- Irish
- Irish - Stepdance
- Irish - Traditional
- Irish stepdancing
- Irish-American
- Irish-ballad singer
- Isleños of St. Bernard Parish
- Italian
- Italian - Southern Music and Dance
- Italian Folk Music
- Italian-American Songs
- Ivorian Dance Troupe
- Jack Tales
- Jam Band
- Jamaican ska
- Japanese
- Japanese Taiko
- Japanese-American Dancer
- Jarocho
- Jazz
- Jazz - Guitar
- Jazz - Latin
- jazz violin and tap dance
- Jazz-New Orleans Jazz Band
- Jewish - Bukharan music and dance
- Jewish - Cantor
- Jewish - Klezmer
- Jewish - Storytelling
- Jewish Folk Music
- Jews Harp
- Juggling
- Juglarias
- Kashia Pomo Basket Maker
- Kathak
- Keyboard Artist
- Khmer Wedding Ensemble
- Kiowa & Comanche Traditions
- Kiowa And Comanche Dancers
- Kiowa regalia maker
- Kiowa sacred song leader
- Klezmer
- Klezmer music
- Klezmer-Moldavian
- Korean
- Korean dance, drumming, & music
- Kuchipudi Classical Dance
- Kumu Hula (hula master)
- la musica tejana
- la musica tejana, Michigan-style
- Labor Songs
- Lace Maker
- Lakota - hoop dancer
- Lakota flute music and hoop dancing
- Lakota hoop dancer
- Laotian - Vocal
- Laotian Classical Music
- Laotian Music and Dance
- Latin American - Dueto Style
- Latin Dance & Jazz
- Latin/Caribbean
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian Music and Dance
- Maine Country Music
- Maine French Fiddle Players
- Malian Music
- mandolin
- Mandolin Orchestra
- Mardi Gras - African tradition
- Mardi Gras chief/costume maker
- Mardi Gras Indian
- Mariachi
- Marimba
- Marricha
- Merengue Tipico
- Mexican
- Mexican - Conjunto
- Mexican - Jarocho from Veracruz
- Mexican - Marimba
- Mexican - Musica de Nuevo Mexico
- Mexican - Tejano
- Mexican Dance
- Mexican folk music
- Mexican Jarocho Music
- Mexican String Band Music
- Mexican-American Singer/Guitarist/Composer
- Mexico - Michoacan
- Mexico - Michoacan harpist
- Michigan Heritage Award Winner 2000
- Michigan Hungarian Roma
- Middle Eastern Music
- Mime & dance
- Mississippi Delta Blues
- Missouri-French Fiddler
- Mountain Dulcimer
- Mouth bow
- Mouth music
- Music and Dance of the Andes
- Music, songs & stories from Maine & the Maritimes
- Musica De Los Viejitos
- Musica de Nuevo Mexico
- Native American
- Native American - Cherokee
- Native American - Craftsman
- Native American - Creek/Seminole
- Native American - Hocak (Winnebago)
- Native American - Iroquois
- Native American - Laguna
- Native American - Lakota
- Native American - Mohawk
- Native American - Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Okla.
- Native American - Native Californian Song and Danc
- Native American - Navajo
- Native American - Penobscot
- Native American - Seneca-Comanche
- Native American - Tigua
- Native American - Tohono O'odham
- Native American - Walla Walla (Warm Springs)
- Native American - Yup'ik
- Native American - Zuni
- Native American Choir
- Native American Corn Husk Weaver
- Native American drum and dance
- Native American Drum Circle
- Native American linguist & storyteller
- Native American Music
- Native American quillwork
- Native American Storyteller
- Native American -Yakima
- Native American-Akwesasne Mohawk Nation
- Native American-Cherokee
- Native American-Cherokee/Choctaw
- Native American-Choctaw
- Native American-Intertribal
- Native American-Nez Perce
- Native American-Passamaquoddy
- Native American-Seminole
- Native American-Shoshone Regalia Maker
- Near Eastern and Middle Eastern - Armenian
- Near Eastern-Afghanistan
- need
- Nepalese Music
- New England Fiddle Music
- New England Folk Music
- New England Verse
- New Mexico folk music
- New Orleans Brass Band
- New Orleans Brass Bands and Mardi Gras - Dixieland
- New Orleans Jazz
- New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians
- New Orleans Parade Band
- New Orleans piano professor
- New Orleans Rhythm & Blues
- New Orleans Street Band and Dixieland
- New Orleans Street Percussion
- New York-style salsa
- Newfoundland
- Newfoundland songs, stories and tunes
- Nipmuc flute player and maker
- North Indian Kathak dancer
- Northumbrian Pipes
- Norwegian Fiddle
- Norwegian Folk Music
- Norwegian Rosemaler
- Norwegian woodcarving
- Ojibwe basketmakers & storytellers
- Okinawan-American Musician
- Old Time - Missouri Fiddle
- Old Time Maine Dance Hall Orchestra
- Old-Time
- Old-Time - Appalachian Guitarist
- Old-time and Irish music/dance
- Old-Time Banjo
- Old-Time Country Singing
- Old-Time Fiddle
- old-time fiddling
- old-time music
- Old-time Square and Contra Dance
- Old-time String Band
- old-time, bluegrass, country rock
- Organ
- Oud maker
- Ozark fiddle
- Ozark Tall Tales
- pan pipes
- Papago Music
- Paraguay - Folk Music
- Paraguayan Harp & Vocal Music
- Passamaquoddy-basket weaver
- Penitentes of New Mexico
- Persian
- Persian Santur Player
- Philippino Traditional Dance
- Photo Documentarian, Author & Exhibit Curator
- Piano
- Piano - Barrelhouse
- Piano various styles
- Piano-Cape Breton
- Piano-Gospel
- Piedmont blues guitar & harmonica
- Piedmont Old Time Banjo
- Play Party Games
- Polish
- Polish Mountain Music and Dance
- Polish Polka
- Polish-American
- Polka
- Polka - Dutch Hop style
- Polka - East Coast Style
- Polka - German
- Polka - Polish
- Polka - Slovenian
- Polka-Texas-Polish
- Portuguese - Azorean
- Portuguese Fado Music
- Portuguese-American
- Pottery - Santa Clara pueblo
- Presenter
- Puerto Rican
- Puerto Rican Bomba
- Puerto Rican Bomba y Plena
- Puerto Rico - Jibaro
- Puerto Rico - Plena
- Punch and Judy, The Ancient Art of
- Puppetry for Kids
- pure
- Quebeçois
- Québécois music
- Québécois Music & Dance
- Quebecois Music, Song and Dance
- R & B and Doo-Wop
- Raga Music from North and South India
- Ragtime
- Recitation
- Record producer and label founder
- Reggae
- Rhythm and Blues
- Rio Grande Weaver
- Rock
- Rock n Roll
- Rockabilly
- Rodeo poetry
- Romanian
- Rug Hooking
- Russian
- Russian & Ukrainian
- Russian Domra & Bayan
- Sacred Harp Singing
- Sacred Steel Guitar
- Salsa
- Salsa/Merengue Dance Music
- Santero
- Santero (carver & painter of sacred figures)
- Scandinavian Dance
- Scottish
- Scottish and Cape Breton Gaelic
- Scottish Dance
- Scottish pipe & drum band
- Scottish Pipe Band
- Scottish Songs and Ballads
- Sea Chanteys
- Sea Islands - African-American
- Senegalese - drum maker
- Senegalese Griot and Kora
- Sephardic Singer
- Shape Note Singing
- Sicilian
- Sicilian - Traditional Music
- Silly Humor for Kids
- Singer/Songwriter
- Skiffle
- Skokomish tradition bearer, carver, basket maker
- Slavic Music And Dance
- Slavic Tamburitzen
- Slovenian Polkas
- Songster - African American
- Soul
- Soul and R & B
- South African mbaqanga
- South Indian Bharata Natyam classical dance
- South Indian Veena
- Southeast Asia-Hmong
- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union - Georgian
- Soviet Union - Nerekhtski Horn Playing
- Soviet Union - Tuvan
- Soviet Union - Ukraine
- Spanish religious chants
- Spiritual
- Split ash basketmaker - New Hampshire
- Spoken word
- Spoons
- Square Dance
- Square Dance Caller
- Stage Sounds
- Steel Drum
- Stepping
- Stone Carver & Calligrapher
- Storyteller
- Storytellers - Adirondack
- Storytellers - African-American
- Storytellers - Jack Tales
- Storytellers - Jewish
- Storytellers - Maine
- Storytellers - Vermont
- Storyteller-Smith Island (Chesapeake Bay)
- Storytelling
- Storytelling - New England Downeast
- Straw oppliqué artist
- String & Instruction
- String Band
- String Band/Blues
- Swedish-American
- Swedish-American Fiddle
- Swing -Texas
- Tabetan Dance
- Taiko drummer and dojo founder
- Talk
- Tamburitzan
- Tamburitzan instrument maker
- Tejano
- Tejano Conjunto Music
- Test Tones from Original Source
- Texas Country Blues And Ballads
- Texas Fiddling
- Texas-Czech Polka
- Texas-Mexican Conjunto Music
- Tibetan Folk Songs
- Tibetan Sacred Music
- Tibetan Sacred Music & Dance
- Tibetan sand mandala painter
- Tin and Embroidery - Hispanic-American
- Tlingit Chilkat Blanket Weaver
- Tole Painting
- Tolowa traditional bearer
- Traditional Arabic Music
- Traditional British Songs
- Trinidadian Calypso
- Trinidadian Steelpan
- Tsimashian Dance
- Tuku Music from Zimbabwe
- U.S. - Popular Music
- U.S. - Traditional Mountain Music
- Ugandan Afro-Pop
- Ugandan Folk/Jazz
- Ukrainian
- Ukrainian-American Pysanky
- United House Of Prayer Gospel Brass
- United House Of Prayer Gospel Shout
- Unknown
- Urban Country
- Various Accordion Styles
- Various Banjo Styles
- Various Dance Styles
- Various Fiddle Styles
- Various French Musical Styles
- Various Guitar Styles
- Various Musical Styles
- Various Singing Styles
- Various Styles - Hand Drumming
- Various Styles - wind instruments
- Various vocal styles
- Various-percussion
- Various-Stringed Instruments
- Veracruz Trio Jarocho
- Vietnamese - Court and Chamber Music
- Vietnamese - Traditional
- Virgin Islands Quadrille & Scratch Music
- Waila - Native American dance music
- Walk-In Music
- Wasco Sally Bag Weaver
- West African Drumming
- Western
- Western Music
- Western Saddlemaker
- Western Swing
- Whistling
- Wildfowl decoy carver
- Woodcarver
- Working Arts
- Workshop
- Yankee Dulcimer and Fiddle
- Yankee Fiddle
- Yaqui Pascola Music of Arizona
- Yiddish - Actor
- Yiddish - Actress
- Yiddish Folksongs
- Yiddish Singer, Poet, Songwriter
- Yugoslavian dance
- Zydeco