| Style | Description |
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| Kaba | Southern Albanian instrumental music |
| Kabuki | lively and popular form of Japanese theater and music |
| Kadans | Kadans is a Haitian Creole music genre, which started off in Haïti and developed in the French islands. |
| Kagok | Korean aristocratic vocal music accompanied by strings, wind and percussion instruments |
| Kagyupa chanting | form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting |
| Kaiso | Kaiso is a type of music popular in Trinidad, which originated in West Africa, and later evolved into Calypso. Kaiso songs are generally narrative in form and often have a cleverly concealed political subtext. |
| Kalamatianó | Kalamatianó is a type of music fitting a style of Greek dancing. For each Greek dance, you need to have a certain beat that isn't too fast or too slow. |
| Kalattuut | Inuit polka |
| Kalinda | Calinda (Kalinda) is martial art, as well as kind of folk music and dance in the Caribbean which arose in the 1720s. |
| Kan ha diskan | Kan ha discan is likely the most common type of traditional music of Brittany. It is a vocal tradition (kan ha diskan translates from Breton as, roughly, call and response singing). |
| Kansas City blues | Kansas City blues is a genre of blues music. It has spawned the Kansas Blues & Jazz festival and the Kansas Blues Society. Kansas City has many blues and jazz fans. The careers of Count Basie and Charlie Parker began in Kansas City. |
| Kantrum | Kantrum 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. |
| Kaseko | Kaseko is a musical genre from Suriname, a fusion of African, European and American styles. |
| Katcharsee | Katcharsee is an upbeat form of traditional music from Okinawa. It is often a feature of celebrations in Okinawa, such as weddings. Traditionally, the melody is played on a sanshin, a traditional Okinawan instrument similar to a banjo. |
| Kattajjaq | competitive Inuit throat singing |
| Kawachi ondo | Kawachi Ondo (河内音頭) is a kind of Japanese folk song accompanying the Obon dance (AKA Bon Odori), specifically in the old Kawachi region of Japan (modern-day southern Osaka Prefecture). |
| Kayōkyoku | Kayōkyoku (歌謡曲) is a genre of Japanese music. Kayōkyoku is usually translated as "popular music" and first appeared in Japan after World War II. Kayō literally means balladry. |
| Kebyar | Gamelan gong kebyar is a modern style or genre of Balinese gamelan music. Kebyar means "the process of flowering", and refers to the explosive changes in tempo and dynamics characteristic of the style. It is the most popular form of gamelan in Bali, and its best known musical export. |
| Kecak | Kecak (pronounced: "KEH-chahk", alternate spellings: Ketjak, Ketjack, and Ketiak), a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Kecapi suling - instrumental, improvisation-based music from Java |
| Kertok | Kertok is a type of musical ensemble consists of xylophone played in traditional Malay functions. |
| Khaleeji | popular folk-based music of the Persian Gulf countries |
| Khplam wai | a type of mor lam with a slow tempo which originated in Luang Prabang, Laos |
| Khelimaski djili | Hungarian Gypsy dance songs |
| Khene | The khene (also spelled "khaen", "kaen" and "khen") is a mouth organ of Lao origin whose pipes are connected with a small, hollowed-out wooden reservoir into which air is blown. |
| Khorovodi | Russian dance music |
| Khrung sai | type of Thai classical music |
| Khyal | Hindustani vocal music that is informal, partially improvised and very popular |
| Kirtan | Kirtan is one of the pillars of Sikhism and in that context refers to the singing of the sacred hymns from the Guru Granth Sahib to set music normally in classical Raags format. |
| Kiwi rock | Kiwi rock is a term used informally to describe New Zealand rock music and the culture surrounding rock music in New Zealand. |
| Kizomba | Kizomba is one of the most popular genres of dance and music from Angola. Sung generally in Portuguese, it is a genre of music with a romantic flow mixed with African rhythm. The kizomba dancing style is also known to be very sensual. |
| Klape | Dalmatian male choir music |
| Klasik | The classical music of Afghanistan is called klasik, which includes both instrumental (rāgas, naghmehs) and vocal forms (ghazals).[1] Many ustad, or professional musicians, are descended from Indian artists who emigrated to the royal court in Kabul in the 1860s upon the invitation of Amir Sher Ali Khan. |
| Klezmer | Klezmer is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. Around the 15th century, a tradition of secular (non-liturgical) Jewish music was developed by musicians called kleyzmorim or kleyzmerim. |
| Kliningan | Kliningan is a Sundanese musical genre that includes the Juru Kawih (singer) accompanied by gamelan. |
| Komagaku | Komagaku (高麗楽) is a form of Gagaku, or court music, that appeared in Japan around the beginning of the Nara period (710-794). |
| Konpa | Kompa (sometimes written Compas Direct, konpa direk, konpa compas or compa) is a musical genre as well as a dance that originates from Haïti. |
| Koumpaneia | Greek Gypsy music |
| Kpanlogo | Kpanlogo is a recreational dance and music form from Ghana, West Africa. It was first played by the Ga ethnic group, most of whom live in and around the capital city, Accra, but is now performed and enjoyed throughout the country. |
| Krautrock | Krautrock, also known as Kosmische Musik, is a generic name for the experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. BBC DJ John Peel in particular is largely credited with spreading the reputation of krautrock outside of the German-speaking world. |
| Kriti (krithi) | Kriti is a format of a musical composition typical to Carnatic music, an Indian classical music style. Kritis form the backbone of any typical Carnatic music concert and is the longer format of a carnatic music song. |
| Kroncong | Kroncong is the name of a ukulele-type instrument and an Indonesian musical style that typically makes use of the kroncong, a flute, and a female singer. |
| Kulintang | Traditional gong-chime music of the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor |
| Kulning | Kulning, or herding calls (called kauking and kaukning in some parts of Norway and former Norwegian provinces in Sweden, also kulokker, kyrlokker or a lockrop) is a domestic Scandinavian music form, often used to call livestock (cows, goats, etc.) down from high mountain pastures where they have been grazing during the day. |
| Kumina | music (and religion) of the Bongo Nation of Jamaica |
| Kundiman | Kundiman were originally Kapampangan war songs popularized as Filipino patriotic songs and love songs by the end of the 19th century. |
| Kvæði | Kvæði (Kvaedi; at kvøða: "to sing a tune or kvæði") are the old ballads of the Faroe Islands, accompanied by the Faroese dance. |
| Kveding | traditional Norwegian songs |
| Kwaito | Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1990s. It is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower tempo and containing melodic and percussive African samples which are looped, deep basslines and often vocals, generally male, shouted or chanted rather than sung or rapped. |
| Kwassa kwassa | Kwassa kwassa (or kwasa kwasa) refers to a dance rhythm from Congo (DRC), where the hips move back and forth while the hands move to follow the hips – that was very popular in Africa in the late 1980s. |
| Kwela | Kwela is a happy, often pennywhistle based, street music from southern Africa with jazzy underpinnings. It evolved from the marabi sound and brought South African music to international prominence in the 1950s. |
