| Style | Description |
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| Early music | Early music is commonly defined as European classical music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque. |
| East Coast blues | East Coast blues casts a wide net covering all of Piedmont blues--a style that relied on fast, virtuosic fingerpicking and added influences such as ragtime--as well as the urbanized R&B of New York blues and countless smaller regional styles. |
| East Coast hip hop | East Coast hip hop is a style of hip hop music that originated in New York City during the early-1970s. East Coast hip hop emerged as a definitive subgenre after artists from other regions of the United States, chiefly West Coast hip hop and the Southern hip hop, emerged with different styles of hip hop. |
| Easy listening | Easy listening music is a style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the mid-20th century, evolving out of swing and big band music, and related to Beautiful music and Light music. |
| Ecocore | A subgenre of black metal containing hardcore elements and lyrics concerning the ecosystem |
| Electric blues | The electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar, the bass guitar , and/or the harmonica. Electric blues is performed in several regional subgenres, such as Chicago blues, Texas blues and Memphis blues. |
| Electric folk | Electric folk is a genre of music in which British and Celtic traditional music is played in a rock music style. |
| Electro | Electro, short for electro funk (also known as robot hip hop and Electro hop) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to disco). |
| Electro Backbeat | Electro backbeat (anthem backbeats or anthem breaks) is a term used to describe a diversion from the collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a 4/4 drum pattern. |
| Electroclash | Electroclash describes a style of fashion, music, and attitude that fuses New Wave, punk, and electronic dance music with somewhat campy and absurdist post-industrial detachment in addition to vampy and/or camp sexuality. |
| Electrofunk | See Electro |
| Electro hop | See Electro |
| Electronic art music | Electronic art music refers to those forms of electronic music that fall within the general category of art music. |
| Electronic body music | Electronic body music (mainly known by its acronym EBM) is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic punk music. |
| Electronic dance | Electronic dance music is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. |
| Electronic luk thung | Luk thung (Thai: ลูกทุ่ง; lit. "child of the fields") is the most popular form of Thai country music. The songs typically reflect the hardship of everyday life among the rural poor. Tempos tend to be slow, and singers use an expressive singing style with a lot of vibrato. |
| Electronic music | Electronic music refers to music that emphasizes the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology as a central aspect of the sound of the music. |
| Electronica | Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; but unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing. |
| Electronicore | digital hardcore |
| Electropop | Electropop (also called Technopop) is a form of synth pop music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. |
| Elevator music (or Muzak) | Elevator music, also known as lift music (in the Commonwealth), piped music or muzak, refers to the gentle, bland instrumental arrangements of popular music designed for play in shopping malls, grocery stores, department stores, public toilets, telephone systems (while the caller is on hold), cruise ships, airports, doctors' and dentists' offices, and of course, elevators. |
| Emo | Emo is a style of rock music which describes several independent variations of music with common stylistic roots. |
| Emo rap | Emo rap (also known as emo hip-hop and hipster hop) is a term typically used to describe hip hop music with emotional lyrical content comparable to that of emo music. |
| Enka | Enka refers to two styles of Japanese music. The first is speeches set to music which were sung and spread by political activists during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and the Taisho period (1912–1926) as a means to avoid crackdowns by the government on speeches of political dissent. The second is a genre of Japanese popular songs (kayōkyoku) developed in the postwar Showa period (1926-1989) , which has been likened to American country music and Portuguese Fado in terms of themes and audience. |
| Eremwu eu | Eremwu eu is a work song sung by women as they make cassava bread, as part of the Garifuna music tradition of Honduras. |
| Ethereal wave | Ethereal Wave, also called Ethereal Darkwave or Etheric Wave in Europe, and simply Ethereal in the US, is a term that describes a subgenre of Dark Wave music. |
| Eurobeat | Eurobeat, as the name implies, is a music genre from Europe. It is a sub-genre of 80s italo disco (a.k.a. 80s Eurodisco). In the USA, marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits. |
| Eurodance | Eurodance is a genre of European synthesizer-driven dance music, which has been popular worldwide since 1990s. The genre originates from House, HipHop, and Hi-NRG music. |
| Europop | Europop refers to a style of pop music that first developed in Europe throughout the late 1970s which emphasized catchy beats, slick songs and frothy lyrics. |
| Eurotrance | Euro-Trance is a retrospective term first used in the UK, during the spring of 2002, by UK's MTV Dance. It was used to describe all the "trance"-like European imports for the UK market, especially those recorded in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. |
| Exotica | Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid 1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. |
| Experimental music | Experimental music is a term introduced by composer John Cage in 1955. Cage defined "an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen" (Cage 1961, 39), and he was specifically interested in completed works that performed an unpredictable action (Mauceri 1997, 197) In a broader sense, it has come to mean any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. |
| Experimental rock | Experimental rock or Avant rock is a type of music based on rock and roll which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique. |
| Ezengileer | type of Tuvan xoomii said to imitate the trotting of horses |
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