Sabar – drumming style found in Senegal
Sacred Harp
Sadcore
Saibara
Salegy
Salsa – fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in New York City
Salsa erotica – lyrically explicit form of salsa romantica
Salsa romantica – a soft, romantic form of salsa music
Saltarello
Samba – form of Brazilian popular music
Samba-canção – traditional samba in slow tempo and with romantic lyrics. influenced by bolero
Samba-reggae – a genre of samba with a choppy, reggae-like rhythm.
Samba-rock
Sambai
Sambass
Sanjo – Korean instrumental folk music
Sardana – Traditional Music Catalonia
Sato kagura
Sawt – urban music from Kuwait and Bahrain
Saya – Bolivian music derived from African rhythms
Schlager
Schottisch
Scottish Baroque music
Scrumpy and Western – folk music from West Country of England
Scuff
Sea shanty
Sean nós – Sean-nós singing style of Ireland
Seapunk
Second Viennese School
Sega music
Seggae
Seis
Semba
Sephardic music
Serialism
Sertanejo
Set dance
Sevdalinka – Bosnian urban popular music
Sevillana
Shabad
Shalako – Armenian folk dance
Shan'ge – Taiwanese Hakka mountain songs
Shango
Shape note
Shibuya-kei
Shidaiqu – Hong Kong-based form of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in Mandarin
Shima-uta – folk songs from the Amami Islands, Japan
Shock rock
Shoegaze – British pop
Shoka – Japanese songs written during the Meiji Restoration to bring Western music to Japanese schools
Shomyo – Japanese Buddhist chanting
Show tune
Sica
Siguiriyas
Silat – Malaysian mixture of music, dance and martial arts
Sinawi – Korean religious music meant for dancing; it is improvised and reminiscent of jazz
Singer-songwriter
Situational – pertaining to songs describing the current situation; most prevalent in films
Ska
Ska punk
Skald
Skate punk
Skiffle
Skullstep
Slack-key guitar (kihoalu) – Hawaiian form invented by retuning open strings on a guitar
Slängpolska
Slide
Slowcore
Sludge metal – A subgenre of heavy metal with slow-tuned tempos, abrasive distortion and harsh vocals
Smooth jazz
Ska
Skweee
Soca
Soft rock
Son-batá (batá rock)
Son cubano
Son montuno – Cuban folk music
Sonata
Songo – a mixture of changuí and son montuno
Songo-salsa – a mixture of songo, hip hop and salsa
Sophisti-pop
Soukous
Soul blues
Soul jazz
Soul music – form of African-American music with elements of gospel and doo-wop
Soundtrack
Southern Gospel
Southern Harmony
Southern hip hop
Southern metal
Southern rock
Southern soul
Space age pop
Space music
Space rock
Spectralism
Speedcore
Speed garage
Speed metal
Spirituals
Spouge – Barbadian folk music
Sprechgesang
Square dance
St. Louis blues
Steelband
Stoner metal
Stoner rock
Straight edge
Strathspeys
Street bass
Stride
String – 1980s Thai pop music
String quartet
Sufi music
Suite
Sunshine pop
Suomirock
Super Eurobeat
Surf ballads
Surf instrumental
Surf music
Surf pop
Surf rock
Swamp blues
Swamp pop
Swamp rock
Swing music
Sygyt – type of xoomii (Tuva throat singing), likened to the sound of whistling
Symphonic black metal
Symphonic metal
Symphonic poem
Symphonic rock
Symphony
Synthpop
Synthwave
