Genres of blues include the following:
- African blues
- Blues-rock
- British blues
- Chicago blues
- Classic female blues
- Country blues
- Delta blues
- Detroit blues
- Jazz blues
- Jump blues
- Kansas City blues
- Louisiana blues
- Memphis blues
- Piano blues
- Piedmont blues
- Soul-blues
- St. Louis blues
- Swamp blues
- Texas blues
- Western blues
- Thus, if we take together the Fado of Lisbon, the Tango of Buenos-Aires and the Rembetika of Athens, we will note firstly that all of them emerged a little before or after the middle of the 19th century in poor districts of the big port cities of the nascent industry, attracting people from the country or from abroad, and who were confined to a marginal existence. And if we look for other parallels in the development of these urban popular cultures, we will find them again: first, their obscure and repressed beginnings, then their discovery and appropriation by elements of the higher social classes, later their acceptance and admission by the establishment (often after their success outside of the native land) before ending as a subject of tourist explorations.
- Bikutsi - Cameroonian music
- Bolel - Ethiopian music
- Bomba - Puerto Rican music
- Bozlak - Turkish music
- Calypso - Trinidadian music
- Country - American music
- Cumbia - Colombian music
- Doina - Romanian music
- Fado - Portuguese music
- Flamenco - Spanish music
- Kroncong - Indonesian music
- Llanto - Panamanian music
- Luk thung - Thai music
- Mariachi - Mexican music
- Merengue - Dominican music
- Morna - Cape Verdean music
- Rembetika - Greek music
- Rai - Algerian music
- Reggae - Jamaican music
- Rumba - Cuban music
- Samba - Brazilian music
- Schrammelmusik - Austrian music
- Sevdalinka - Bosnian music
- Shaabi - Egyptian music
- Sout - Kuwaitii and Bahrainii music
- Taarab - Tanzanian music
- Tango - Argentinian music
- Zilin - Beninese music