F musical genres wouldn’t be F without the king of F’s - Funk …. Funky MacFunkinson, The funkmeister General, Rock Hard in a Funky Place. I love funk, funk is funky, gotta love a funky tune. Okay, I also like Folk Music and Futurepop, but Funk wins if it comes down to a fight.
Fado – Portuguese folk music, often touching on the themes of melancholia and working class struggles
Falak – Afghan, Tajik, and Pakistani religious folk music
Fandango – Spanish music made to accompany the upbeat dance of the same name
Farruca – a light form of flamenco
Filk – style of folk (sometimes expanding to other genres) with heavy science-fiction or fantasy themes
Film score – any music written to act as a soundtrack to a motion picture
Filmi – Indian film scores
Filmi-ghazal – fusion of filmi and ghazal poetry
Fingerstyle – the act of plucking guitar strings with the fingertips
Flamenco – popular style of Spanish folk dance music developed in Andalusia by Romani-Spanish (or Gitanos), but latter expanding to the general Spanish populus
Folk jazz - fusion of folk and jazz music
Folk metal – fusion of folk and heavy metal rock
Folk – broad term used to refer to the traditional music of an ethnic group, usually that performed by the working class
Folk pop – fusion of folk and pop music
Folk punk – fusion of folk and punk rock
Folk rock – fusion of folk and rock music
Folktronica – fusion of folk and electronic music
Forró – popular Brazilian folk dance music
Franco-country – style of country music performed by French-Canadians
Freakbeat – a frantic, raw style of beat and British Invasion music
Freak folk – experimental style of folk, often folk-rock
Free improvisation – completely uncontrolled improvisation
Free jazz – freely improvised jazz music
Freestyle – Latin American electro-pop
Free tekno – style of techno developed by anarchists
French house – house music produced by French artists
Frevo – umbrella term for Brazilian dance styles associated with the Brazilian Carnivale
Fuji – - Nigerian folk music
Full on trance – style of psychedelic trance known for its rolling baselines and confrontational themes
Funaná – Cape Verdean accordion-based dance music
Funeral doom – incredibly slow style of doom metal, made to mimic funeral music
Funk – combination of elements of blues, jazz, and soul with the melodies and harmonies stripped in order to emphasize the bass guitar
Funk metal – fusion of funk and heavy metal rock
Funk rock – fusion of funk and rock music
Funky house – fusion of funk and house music
Furniture music – a calming, live form of background music
Fusion jazz – fusion of jazz and rock music
Future garage – style of UK garage that fused it with elements of all other contemporary EDM styles
Futurepop – style of EDM known for its similarities to synthpop and uplifting trance, as well as its heavy sampling
