| Style | Description |
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| Concerto | The term Concerto (plural concertos or concerti) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. |
| Concerto grosso | The concerto grosso (Italian for big concert(o), plural concerti grossi) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno). |
| Congo music | In Panama and Colombia, Congo music is an Afro-Caribbean genre of music. In English-speaking West African countries (e.g. Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia), Congo music refers to the genre more commonly known as soukous, which is widely performed in both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, though is more closely associated with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| Conjunto | In Mexico Conjunto is synonymous with Norteño music. |
| Contemporary Christian Music | Contemporary Christian Music (or CCM; also by its religious neutral term "inspirational music") is a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. |
| Contradanza | The Cuban contradanza (Spanish for Contra dance, also called contradanza criolla, danza or danza criolla) was a popular dance music genre of the 19th century. |
| Cool jazz | Cool jazz is a jazz style that emerged in the late 1940s in New York City. |
| Country blues | Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) refers to all the acoustic, guitar-driven forms of the blues. After blues' birth in the southern United States, it quickly spread throughout the country (and elsewhere), giving birth to a host of regional styles. These include Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, Texas, Piedmont, Louisiana, Western, Atlanta, St. Louis, East Coast, Swamp, New Orleans, Delta and Kansas City blues. |
| Country music | Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s.[1] The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading, and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s, while country and western has declined in use since that time. |
| Country rock | Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of rock with country music. |
| Couple de sonneurs | Breton dance music |
| Cow punk | Cowpunk or Country Punk is a subgenre of punk rock that began in southern California in the 1980s, especially Los Angeles. It combines punk rock with country music and blues in sound, subject matter, attitude, and style. |
| Crossover music | Crossover is a term applied to musical works and performers that achieve popularity with mainstream audiences beyond the usual listenership of their particular genre. In other words, a crossover song is one that breaks into the mainstream audience, despite a (usually) previous lack of exposure in it. |
| Crunk | Crunk is a genre of hip-hop music. Unlike the East Coast style of hip hop, crunk has a high-energy and club-oriented feel. |
| Crust punk | Crust punk is a style of hardcore punk. It is an extremely underground form of music and is one of punk's least recognizable forms; however, fans of the style are found worldwide, numbering in the tens of dozens. It is one of the many extreme evolutions of anarcho-punk and hardcore punk. |
| Csárdás | Csárdás or czardas (pronounced char-dash) (Hungarian csárdás, from csárda, a tavern or inn) is a traditional Hungarian folk dance. It originated in Hungary and was popularized by Roma music bands in Hungary and neighboring lands of Vojvodina, Slovakia, Slovenia , Croatia, Carpathian Ruthenia, Transylvania-(Hungarian Kingdom) and Moravia, as well as among the Banat Bulgarians, including those in Bulgaria. |
| Cuarteto | Cuarteto (Spanish: quartet), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina. |
| Cuban Rumba | In Cuba, Rumba is a generic term covering a variety of musical rhythms and associated dances. The rumba has its influences in the music brought to Cuba by Spanish colonizers as well as Africans brought to Cuba as slaves. |
| Cumbia | Cumbia is originally a Colombian folk dance and dance music and is Colombia's representative national dance and music along with vallenato. The Cumbia is a autochthonous dance and music from the Caribbean Coast of Colombia, with variants of equally folk in Panama. |
| Cumbia villera | Cumbia villera is a typically Argentine form of cumbia music born in the villas miseria (shantytowns) around Buenos Aires and then popularized in other large urban settlements. |
| Cybergrind | Cybergrind is a form of grindcore heavily influenced by extreme electronic music that, aside from the instruments used in ordinary grindcore, uses computer generated sounds, synthetic instruments, and/or drum machines. As a result, there are many electronic, techno and even jungle influences on many of these groups. It usually overlaps with speedcore and, less often, with industrial metal. Genghis Tron is associated with this style. |
