Across
- 3. Smooth nautical-named soft rock
- 7. Revered baton leader
- 9. Heart-driven gospel-rooted genre
- 10. Pounding four-to-the-floor club genre
- 11. Machine-made Detroit pulse
- 12. Button-accordion Louisiana sound
- 15. Strummed songs of the people
- 16. Three-beat ballroom staple
Down
- 1. Music at the edge of silence
- 2. Ornaments and counterpoint era
- 4. Steel-guitar storytelling sound
- 5. Fast fragile post-war jazz
- 6. Sunday voices raised high
- 8. Banjo-and-fiddle mountain sound
- 13. Harmony street-corner singing
- 14. Orchestra-and-sonatas tradition