| Style | Description |
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| Pop punk | Pop punk (also known as punk pop and other names) is a fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. |
| Pop sunda | Pop sunda is a form of pop born in the island of Java in the 1970s which became internationally famous a decade later. It is very popular in some areas of Indonesia. Detty Kurnia is the most prominent pop sunda singer. |
| Popular music | Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It stands in contrast to art music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally. |
| Porngroove | A variation on Funk-Hop with a distinctive emphasis on 'Bow Chicka Bow Wow' pioneeredby Northwood Hills super group GGNXTMAP |
| Porro | The porro (or porro palitiao) is a colombian cumbia rhythm that developed into its own sub-genre. The name is derived from "palitiao", in reference to the way the bombo drum (used in cumbia and porro) is struck along its rim to produce the sound of a cowbell. The Spanish word porro is also a term used in certain areas of Latin America and Spain as a slang term for cannabis informal cigar. |
| Portuguese Shangaan | South African and Mozambiquan mixture of traditional Tsonga and Portuguese music |
| Post-hardcore | Post-hardcore is a musical genre that evolved from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. |
| Post-Jam | Next Wave Jam bands like the Slip, Lotus, STS9 and The Duo. |
| Post-metal | Post-metal is a music genre, a mixture between the genres of post-rock and heavy metal, with roots in progressive rock and industrial music. It is broadly characterized by distorted guitar, heavy atmospherics, gradual evolution of song structure, and a minimal emphasis on vocals. |
| Post punk | Post-punk was a popular musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid 1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental[1]. Post-punk laid the groundwork for alternative rock by broadening the idea of what punk and underground music could do, incorporating elements of Krautrock (specifically the use of synthesizers), Jamaican dub music (specifically in bass guitar), American funk, studio experimentation, and even punk's traditional polar opposite, disco, into the genre. |
| Post-rock | Post-rock is a music genre characterized by the use of musical instruments commonly associated with rock music, but utilizing rhythms, harmonies, melodies, timbre, and chord progressions that are not found in rock tradition. Simply put, it is the use of 'rock instrumentation' for non-rock purposes. Practitioners of the genre's style typically produce instrumental music. |
| Post-romanticism | Post-romanticism or Postromanticism is the postmodern expression of passion in art, and refers to the re-enactment of romantic themes and motifs. As an emerging trend, inspired by romanticism, and emphasizing the expression of passion and beauty in contemporary art, the cultural movement has been officially founded by artist Leonardo Pereznieto and writer Claudia Moscovici. |
| Power metal | Power metal is a style of heavy metal music typically with the aim of evoking an "epic" feel, combining characteristics of traditional metal with thrash metal or speed metal, often within symphonic context. |
| Power noise | Power noise (also known as rhythmic noise, noize and occasionally as distorted beat music) is a fusion genre between Post-Industrial music and IDM, drum & bass, hardcore techno or breakcore, that takes its inspiration from some of the more structured and distorted early industrial acts, such as Esplendor Geometrico. |
| Power pop | Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed. Recordings tend to display production values that lean toward compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars, an electric bass guitar, a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers. |
| Power violence | Power violence is a cross breeding of the musical genres hardcore punk and grindcore. Power violence is generally played at a frantic speed, often employing blast beats (which sounds like hardcore punk being played at grindcore tempos) with contrasting slow, sludgy parts. |
| Pow-wow | A pow-wow (also powwow or pow wow or pau wau) is a gathering of North America's Native people. The word derives from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning "spiritual leader". |
| Ppongtchak | Ppongjjak (or Trot music) is the oldest form of Korean pop music. It developed in the years before and during the Japanese occupation. |
| Praise song | A praise song (also commonly called a worship song) is a loosely defined style of music used in a variety of Christian churches. |
| Program music | Program music is a form of art music intended to evoke extra-musical ideas, images in the mind of the listener by musically representing a scene, image or mood. By contrast, absolute music stands for itself and is intended to be appreciated without any particular reference to the outside world. |
| Progressive bluegrass | Progressive bluegrass, also known as newgrass (a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker), is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. Progressive bluegrass came to widespread attention in the late 1960s and 1970s, as some groups began using electric instruments and importing songs from other genres (particularly rock & roll), and important musicians from that period include John Hartford, New Grass Revival, J.D. Crowe and the New South, The Dillards, Boone Creek, Country Gazette, and the Seldom Scene. |
| Progressive electronic music | Progressive electronic music usually refers to a style of predominantly instrumental music played with synthesizers which draws on the influence of progressive rock, classical music and/or ambient music. |
| Progressive folk music | Progressive folk is a type of Folk music that rejects or de-emphasizes the conventions of traditional folk music and encourages stylistic or thematic innovation. |
| Progressive house | Progressive house has its origins in Great Britain in the early 1990s, with the output of Guerrilla Records and Leftfield's first singles (particularly "Song of Life"). Mixmag editor Dom Phillips coined the term to describe this type of music. The music itself consisted of the 4-to-4 beat of house music with deeper, dub-influenced basslines and a more melancholic, emotional edge. |
| Progressive metal | Progressive metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. |
| Progressive psytrance | Progressive psytrance (also referred to as minimal psytrance, psyprog, or simply prog or 'minimal) is a style of psychedelic electronica developed in the early 2000s, developed as a sub-genre of psychedelic and Goa trance. |
| Progressive rock | Progressive rock (often shortened to "prog rock" or "prog", also called "art rock") is a form of rock music that evolved in the late-1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." |
| Progressive trance | Progressive trance is a popular sub-genre in trance music and contains elements of house, techno, and ambient music. Acoustic elements and spacey pads became popular with compositions leaned towards incremental changes à la progressive structures. |
| Psychedelic folk | Psychedelic folk or Psych folk is a music genre that originated in the 1960s through the blending of folk music and psychedelic rock or pop. |
| Psychedelic music | Psychedelia in music (or also psychedelic music, less formally) is a term that refers to a broad set of popular music styles, genres and scenes, that may include psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, psychedelic pop, psychedelic soul, psychedelic ambient, psychedelic trance, psychedelic techno, and others. Psychedelic rock is also commonly called acid rock. |
| Psychedelic rock | Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs by using lyrics that has the use of bizarre sounds created by altering the instruments and vocals with electronic effects such as tape-loops echoes and delays, phase shifting, or by playing taped sounds backwards. |
| Psychedelic trance (Psy-trance) | Psychedelic trance or psytrance is a form of electronic music that evolved from Goa trance in the early 1990s when it first began hitting the mainstream. |
| Psychobilly | Psychobilly is a genre of music generally described as a mix between late-1970s punk rock and 1950s American rockabilly. It is often characterized by lyrical references to horror and exploitation films, violence, lurid sexuality, and other topics generally considered taboo, though often presented in a comedic or tongue-in-cheek fashion. Psychobilly music is often played with an upright double bass instead of the electric bass more common in modern rock music. |
| Puke-a-Billy | Puke-a-Billy is a music genre created by Nathan Payne in the late 1990s. Mix of rock-a-billy, punk, country, and blues. |
| Punjabi thumri | Punjabi thumri is a type of thumri from Punjab |
| Punk blues | Punk blues is a US music genre that developed in the 1980s, which mixes elements of blues with the aggressive sound of punk. |
| Punk Cabaret | Punk Cabaret is a fusion of musical theater and cabaret style music with the aggressive, raw nature of punk rock. |
| Punk rock | Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that emerged in the mid-1970s. Preceded by a variety of protopunk music of the 1960s and early 1970s, punk rock developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, where groups such as the Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Clash were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. |
| Punta | Punta is a type of music found primarily in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Nicaragua. |
| Punta rock | Punta rock is a form of the traditional punta rhythm of the Garifuna people of Central America. |
| Punto Guajiro | Punto Guajiro (also called Punto Cubano), with its Andalucian origins, has been evolving in Cuba since the 1700s, is the country music from the Western and Central provinces of Cuba. |
