A Critical Survey of Research in Music Genre Recognition

This paper surveys 560 publications about music genre recognition (MGR) published between 2013–2022, complementing the comprehensive survey of [474], which covered the time frame 1995–2012 (467 publications). For each publication we determine its main functions: a review of research, a contribution to evaluation methodology, or an experimental work. For each experimental work we note the data, experimental approach, and figure of merit it applies. We also note the extents to which any publication engages with work critical of MGR as a research problem, as well as genre theory. Our bibliographic analysis shows for MGR research: 1) it typically does not meaningfully engage with any critique of itself; and 2) it typically does not meaningfully engage with work in genre theory.