| Style | Description |
|---|
| J-pop | J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. It refers to Japanese popular musicians, and was coined by the Japanese media, to distinguish Japanese musicians from foreign musicians. |
| Jaipongan | unpredictably rhythmic dance music from Sunda, Indonesia |
| Jaliscienses | Folk music of Jalisco, Mexico, and the origin of mariachi |
| Jam band | A Jam band (or Jamband) is term coined in the early 1990s to describe a musical group whose albums and live festival performances relate to a fan culture originating with the 1960s group Grateful Dead and continued in the 1990s by Phish and other similar bands. |
| Jamrieng samai | Jamrieng samai is a genre of pop music from Cambodia. The slower dance music, ramvong and ramkbach are the two separate types of Jamrieng samai. |
| Jangle pop | Jangle pop is a musical genre that began in United States during the middle of the 1960s, combining angular, chiming guitars and power pop structures. |
| Japanese pop | See J-pop |
| Japanese rock | Japanese rock, also known by the abbreviation "J-rock", has a vibrant underground rock scene, best known internationally for noise rock bands such as Boredoms and Melt Banana, as well as stoner rock and doom metal bands such as Boris and Church of Misery. |
| Jarochos | A jarocho is a style of music from Veracruz, Mexico. Jarochos are wandering bands of minstrel musicians, similar to mariachis, who dress and play in the Veracruz style. They are distinguished from mariachis by their traditional white suits and hats. Music played by jarochos is known as Son Jarocho. |
| Jawaiian | Hawaiian reggae |
| Jazz | Jazz is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a confluence of African and European music traditions. |
| Jazz blues | Jazz blues is a musical style that combines jazz and blues. |
| Jazz-funk | Jazz-funk is a sub-genre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds[1], and often, the presence of the first electronic analog synthesizers. |
| Jazz fusion | Jazz fusion (or "jazz-rock fusion" or "fusion") is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, country, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music. Fusion albums — even those that are made by the same artist — often include a variety of these musical styles. |
| Jazz rap | Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Lyrically it has often been intellectual, often socio-political or Afrocentric in content. |
| Jegog | Jegog is a form of gamelan music indigenous to Bali, Indonesia played on instruments made of bamboo. |
| Jig | The jig (Irish: port) is a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type, popular in Ireland. It is sometimes seen in its French or Italian forms and other Celtic cultures in Europe, gigue or giga, but these are more usually used for the baroque dance forms. |
| Jing ping | A jing ping is a kind of folk music ensemble from Dominica, also known colloquially as an accordion band. In Dominican folk music, jing ping bands accompany a circle dance called the flirtation, as well as the Dominican quadrille. |
| Jingle | A jingle is a memorable slogan, set to an engaging melody, mainly broadcast on radio and sometimes on television commercials. |
| Jit | Jit (also known as jiti, jit-jive and the Harare beat) is a style of popular Zimbabwean dance music. It features a swift rhythm played on drums and accompanied by a guitar. |
| Joged | a generic term for various types of dance music all over Indonesia |
| Joged bumbung | Joged bumbung is a style of gamelan music from Bali, Indonesia on instruments made primarily out of bamboo. |
| Joik | Yoik, Joik or juoiggus is a traditional Sami form of song. |
| Joropo | The Joropo is a musical style resembling the waltz, and an accompanying dance, having African and European influences. |
| Jota | The jota is a dance known throughout Spain, most likely originating in Aragon. It varies by region, and the jotas of Aragon, Castile, Navarra, Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia and Murcia are the best known. Being a visual representation, the jota is danced and sung with accompaniment by castanets, and the interpreters tend to wear regional costumes. |
| Jtek | Jtek (also spelled 'J-Tec') or Japanese Techno is an electronic music genre, and also a subgenre of Techno. |
| Jug band | A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of traditional and home-made instruments. These home-made instruments are ordinary objects adapted to or modified for making of sound, like the washtub bass, washboard, spoons, stovepipe and comb & tissue paper (kazoo). |
| Juke joint blues | The term juke joint blues refers to a form of dance music that combines rhythm and blues and blues music, often played in the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Juju | Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. It evolved in the 1920s in urban clubs across the countries. The first jùjú recordings were by Tunde King and Ojoge Daniel from the 1920s. |
| Jump blues | Jump blues is a type of up-tempo blues music influenced by big band sound. It is characterized by a jazzy, saxophone (or brass instruments) sound, driving rhythms and shouted, highly syncopated vocals and earthy, comedic lyrics on contemporary urban themes. |
