| Style | Description |
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| Chicago blues | The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago, Illinois by adding electrically amplified guitar, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic guitar/harmonica Delta blues. |
| Chicago house | Chicago house is the earliest style of house music. House music originated in North America at a Chicago, USA, nightclub called The Warehouse. While the origins of the name "house music" are unclear, the most popular belief is that the term "house music" can be traced to the name of that club. DJ Frankie Knuckles originally popularized house music while working at The Warehouse. |
| Chicago jazz (Dixieland jazz) | Dixieland music is a style of jazz which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s. Dixieland jazz combined brass band marches, French quadrilles, ragtime and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation by trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet over a "rhythm section" of piano, guitar, banjo, drums, and a double bass or tuba. |
| Chicago soul | Chicago soul is a style of soul music that arose during the 1960s in Chicago. Along with Motown in Detroit and hard-edged, gritty performers in Memphis (see Memphis soul), Chicago soul helped spur the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s. |
| Chicha | Chicha is a Peruvian fusion of rock and roll, cumbia and huayno. |
| Cho-kantrum | Kantrum (Thai กันตรึม) is a type of folk music played by Khmer in Isan, Thailand, living near the border with Cambodia. It is a fast, traditional dance music. In its purest form, cho-kantrum, singers, percussion and fiddles dominate the sound. A more modern form using electric instrumentation arose in the mid-1980s. |
| Choro | Choro ( literally "cry" in Portuguese, meaning "lament"), traditionally called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is a Brazilian popular music style. Its origins are in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. |
| Christian alternative rock | Christian alternative rock music (ACM) is a form of alternative rock music lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview. Unlike Contemporary Christian music, ACM generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content.The degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist. |
| Christmas carol | A Christmas carol (also called a noël) is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general. They are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas. The tradition of Christmas carols hails back as far as the thirteenth century, although carols were originally communal songs sung during celebrations like harvest tide as well as Christmas. It was only later that carols began to be sung in church, and to be specifically associated with Christmas. |
| Christian Hardcore | Christian hardcore (also known as Christcore) is a form of hardcore and metalcore music and a subgenre of punk rock and heavy metal, respectively, played by bands where the musicians promote Christian beliefs. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. |
| Christian hip hop | Christian hip hop (originally gospel rap, also known as holy hip hop or Christ hop) is a form of hip hop music which uses Christian themes to express the songwriter's faith. Only during the 1990s did the term "Christian hip hop" become descriptive of this type of music. While the audience is typically Christian, the music is also used in (Christian) missions work for the purpose of evangelization. Christian rap and hip hop artists are professed Christians who often use their background as a positive issue to spread their religion. |
| Christian metal | Christian metal is a form of heavy metal music and its many subgenres with Christian lyrics and themes. It is an umbrella term for metal bands that commonly feature inspirational and religious lyrics. |
| Christian music | Christian music (sometimes marketed as Praise music or Worship music) is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. |
| Christian rock | Christian Rock (occasionally abbreviated CR) is a form of rock music played by bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the concept of the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. Much Christian rock has ties to the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) scene, while other bands are independent.The Christian rock genre is most popular in the United States, although some Christian bands have worldwide popularity. Related subgenres of Christian music include Christian alternative rock, Christian metal, Christian industrial, Christian punk, and Christian ska. |
| Chylandyk | type of xoomii which sounds like the chirping of crickets |
| Chumba | Chumba is a kind of Garifuna music. |
| Chut-kai-pang | Chut-Kai-pang is a style of music that is a cross between Trinidad’s traditional Christmas music, parang, sung in Spanish with Venezuelan rhythms, has merged with the calypso and chutney styles to create a form known as Chut-kai-pang. |
| Chutney | Chutney music is a form of music indigenous to the southern Caribbean (primarily Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname) which derives elements from soca and Indian filmi songs. The music was created by Indo-Caribbeans who were transported to the West Indies as indentured servants and later immigrants, during the 19th century. |
| Chutney-soca | In Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, Chutney-Soca music is a crossover style of music incorporating Soca elements and Hindi-English lyrics, Chutney music, with Indian instruments like the dholak and dhantal. |
| Classic female blues | The classic female blues spanned from 1920 to 1929 with its peak from 1923 to 1925. The most popular of these singers were Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Ethel Waters, Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, Clara Smith, Edith Wilson, Trixie Smith, Lucille Hegamin and Bertha “Chippie” Hill. |
| Classical music era | The Classical period in Western music occurred from about 1750 to 1820, despite considerable overlap at both ends with preceding and following periods, as is true for all musical eras. Although the term classical music is used as a blanket term meaning all kinds of music in this era, it can also occasionally mean this particular era within that tradition. |
| Clicks n Cuts | clicks and cuts (also known as Glitch ) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. |
| Close harmony | Close harmony is an arrangement of the notes of chords within a narrow range. Barbershop quartets, like the Buffalo Bills, and other a cappella music groups commonly use close harmony. |
| Coimbra fado | Coimbra Fado (Portuguese: Fado de Coimbra) is a genre of fado originating in the city of Coimbra, Portugal. It was adopted as the music of the university students of this city, also known as Student Fado (Fado de Estudante), but is usually considered the typical music of Coimbra itself. |
| Coladeira | Coladeira, in Cape Verdean Creole koladera, is a form of music in Cape Verde. Its element ascends to funacola which is a mixture of funaná and coladera. Famous coladera musicians includes Antoninho Travadinha. |
| Coldwave (or industrial rock) | Industrial Rock is a musical genre that fuses Industrial Music and specific Rock subgenres such as Punk, Oi!, Hardcore and later on Hard Rock. Industrial Rock spawned Industrial Metal and is frequently confused with the latter. |
| Combined Rhythm | Combined rhythm is a style of popular Dutch Antillean music, influenced by zouk, merengue and soca. The lyrics of combined rhythm are generally in the local Papiamento language. |
| Comedy rock | Comedy rock is a term used to describe rock music that mixes the music with satire or other forms of comedy. |
| Comic opera | Comic opera, or light opera, denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending. Comic opera first developed in 18th-century Italy as opera buffa, an alternative to opera seria. It quickly made its way to France, where it became opéra comique, or opéra bouffe, and finally French operetta, with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner. |
| Comparsa | A comparsa (conga de comparsa) is the band which plays a conga during a Cuban Carnival celebration. It consists of a large group of dancers dancing and traveling on the streets, followed by a Carrosa (carriage) where the musicians play. The Comparsa is a development of African processions where groups of devotees followed a given saint or deity during a particular religious celebration. |
| Compas direct | Compas Direct is a musical genre as well as a dance that originates from Haïti. |
