Music Genre Related Links

While researching several sources for building up the initial phases of the music genre tree, I have found several good sources that I plan to reference.  These are a few of the most interesting sites in no particular order:

• Rate Your Music: A Social network revolving around music.  I haven’t tried their core site, but their genre tree is public and quite good.
• Wikipedia’s Representation of a Complete Music Genre Tree: Not the greatest user interface for looking at this data, but very complete and accurate.
• Wikipedia’s Geneology of Cuban Music: Shows a subset of the complete music genre tree.  It is just interesting to see how you can represent genres while taking in consideration region and period of time.
• A Taxonomy of Music Genres: A research paper presented at Content-Based Multimedia Information Access Conference in April 2000.  A great, and educational, read for anybody interested in music genres.
• last.fm’s genre-related tags: Paul Lamere, a music researcher at Sun Labs has compiled a clickable list of genres generated from tags given to songs on the last.fm web site.
• . . . and finally, a comedic and educational video on music genres by benpatton.com: