Music Genres & Styles Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-30 · 10 entries checked · 3 flagged · 9 issues confirmed · 3 corrected · 6 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Latin pop — Los Lobos are a rock band, not a Latin pop act, and their major crossover hit 'La Bamba' was in 1987, after Gloria Estefan's first crossover success with 'Conga' in 1985, making the claim factually inaccurate regarding both genre classification and chronology.

Latin pop — Ritchie Valens is not typically categorized as Latin pop (he is a rock and roll/Chicano rock pioneer), so his inclusion as a 'major crossover star' of Latin pop is a misattribution of genre.

Video game music — The claim that Dragon's Lair (1983) has dynamic music that changes based on player actions is incorrect; Dragon's Lair uses laserdisc video with linear music, not adaptive audio.

Video game music — The claim that Pong (1972) used a digital-to-analog converter for audio playback is incorrect; Pong used simple analog circuits, not a DAC.

Balkan music — The entry states that Balkan music includes Moldova, but Moldova is not geographically part of the Balkan region; it is generally considered part of Eastern Europe, not the Balkans.

Balkan music — The entry states that 'Sevdalinka... has not been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as of the current established canon.' This is factually incorrect: Sevdalinka was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative

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