| Style | Description |
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| New Orleans jazz | See Dixieland jazz |
| New Romantic | New Romantic was a fashion movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. |
| New school hip hop | New school hip hop refers to Hip hop music made following the golden age of hip hop, which most agree ended around 1997 or 1998. |
| New Taiwanese Song | New Taiwanese Song is a genre of Taiwanese popular music. It was first used to describe pop songs, often dealing with political themes or social criticism, that followed the upheavals of 1989. Songs of Madness by Blacklist Studio was one of the first and most prominent releases in this genre. Lin Qiang and New Formosa Band are other major musicians in this realm. |
| New Wave of British heavy metal | The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (frequently abbreviated as NWOBHM or N.W.O.B.H.M.) emerged in the late 1970s and reached mainstream attention in the late 1970s, in the United Kingdom, as a reaction in part to the decline of early heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. New Wave - melodious pop outgrowth of arty punk rock, also used as description of an emerging sound in any genre (e.g. Alpine New Wave) |
| New Weird America | New Weird America describes a psychedelic folk musical movement of the mid/late 2000s. |
| New York blues | The New York blues is a type of blues music, characterized by significant jazz influences and a more modernized, urban feel than the country blues. It arose in New York City in the early part of the 20th century, and quickly spread to other urban areas and, often, more affluent listeners than country blues, which is distinctively rural in nature. |
| New York House | New York house, also known as New York garage, US garage or just garage, is a style of house music born in the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City, USA in the early 1980s It is not to be confused with UK garage, although influenced by US Garage, but also evolved out of the acid house and rave scene in the UK in the mid 1990s. |
| Newgrass | See Progressive bluegrass |
| Nhac dan toc cai bien | Nhạc dân tộc cải biên is a modern form of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s after the founding of the Hanoi Conservatory of Music in 1956. |
| Nhac tai tu | Nhạc tài tử is a genre of chamber music in the traditional music of southern Vietnam, literally "music of amateurs". Its instrumentation resembles that of the Huế style; additionally, modified versions of the European instruments guitar, violin, and steel guitar are used. |
| Nisiótika | folk songs of the Greek islands |
| No Wave | No Wave was a short-lived but influential art music and art scene that thrived briefly in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk subculture. |
| Noh | Noh (能), or Nōgaku (能楽) is a major form of classic Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century. |
| Noise music | Noise music is music composed of non-traditional musical elements, and lacks the structure associated with Western Music. A noise musician may incorporate, for example, tape hiss, manipulated recordings (e.g. intentionally scratched or skipping vinyl recordings), machine noise, feedback of various sorts, non-musical vocal elements, etc. |
| Noise pop | Noise pop is a term used to loosely describe a number of alternative rock bands that fuse punk rock's attitude and anger with the atonal noise, feedback, and free song structures of noise music, presented in a decidedly pop context. |
| Noise rock | Noise rock is a broadly defined musical genre that developed in the 1980s as an experimental outgrowth of punk rock. |
| Nongak | Nong-ak or P'ungmul, is a Korean folk music tradition that includes drumming, dancing, and singing. Most performances are outside, with tens of players, all in constant motion. |
| Norae Undong | Norae Undong is a rock genre of Korean music. It arose in the 1970s and early 1980s from t'ong guitar, and has politically and socially aware lyrics. It was invented by pioneers like Kim Min-ki. The name means "Song Movement". |
| Nordic folk dance music | Traditional Nordic dance music is a type of traditional music or folk music that once was common in the mainland part of the Nordic countries - Scandinavia plus Finland. |
| Nortec | Nortec (from the combination of "norteño" and "techno") is an electronic musical genre from Tijuana (a border city in Baja California, Mexico) that first gained popularity in the 2001. Nortec music is characterized by hard dance beats and samples from traditional forms of Mexican music such as Banda sinaloense and Norteño - unmistakably Mexican horns are often used. |
| Norteño (Tex-Mex) | Norteño (literally meaning "northern" in Spanish; also known as norteña or conjunto) is a genre of Mexican music. The accordion and the bajo sexto are norteño's most characteristic instruments. |
| Northern Soul | Northern Soul is the term used in the UK for a type of mid-tempo and uptempo heavy-beat soul music (of mainly African American origin) that was popularized in northern England in the mid 1960s. |
| Nova canção | popular 1950s and 60s fado in Portugal and folk-based singer-songwriters in Spain |
| Novokomponovana narodna muzika | modernized Serbian folk music |
| Nu breaks | Nu skool breaks (often abbreviated to nuskool or breaks) is a term used to describe a genre of electronic dance music. The genre is characterised by its incorporation of breakbeats, although it can be also be defined by the use of an alternating beat between the kick drum and snare. Typically, tracks range between 125 to 140 bpm. |
| Nu jazz | Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music styles that blend jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation, funk, electronic dance music, and free improvisation[1]. Also written nu-jazz or NuJazz, it is sometimes called electronic jazz, electro-jazz, e-jazz, jazztronica, jazz house, phusion, or future jazz. |
| Nu metal | Nu metal, otherwise known as new metal or nü metal, is a musical genre that emerged in the late 1990s which fuses influences from grunge and alternative metal with funk music, hip-hop, and various heavy metal genres, such as thrash metal and groove metal. |
| Nu-NRG | Nu-NRG is a form of electronic dance music that evolved from the 1980s hi-NRG. Pioneered by DJ Jakimo in the late 1990s, Nu-NRG is similar to epic trance and mainstream European house music but harder and faster beat. |
| Nu soul | Nu soul (or neo soul) is a music genre and an umbrella term for current soul music. The music is usually a hybrid of 1970s-influenced soul music with influences from jazz, funk, hip hop house music. |
| Nueva canción | Nueva Canción (Spanish for 'new song') is a movement in Latin American music that was developed first in the Southern Cone of South America - Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay - during the 1950's and 1960's, but also popularized shortly after in Central America. |
| Nyingmapa chanting | Nyingmapa chanting is a form of highly rhythmic and elaborate Tibetan Buddhist chanting. |
