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Genres and styles whose names start with BO.
Bolero
Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by
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Bolero is a Spanish dance in 3/4 time popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It originated from the seguidilla sometime between 1750 and 1772, and it became very popular in Madrid, La
Read → EntryBomba (Ecuador)
Bomba or Bomba del Chota is an Afro-Ecuadorian music and dance form from the Chota Valley area of Ecuador in the province of Imbabura and Carchi. Its origins can be traced back to Africa via the
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Bomba is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of musical styles and associated dances originating in Puerto Rico. Bomba reflects a syncretism of Puerto Rico’s many cultural groups. It
Read → EntryBongo Flava
Bongo Flava is a nickname for Tanzanian music. The genre was developed in the 1990s, mainly as a derivative of American hip hop and traditional Tanzanian styles such as taarab and dansi. Lyrics are
Read → EntryBoogaloo
Boogaloo or bugalú (also: shing-a-ling, Latin boogaloo, Latin R&B) is a modern jazz genre of Latin music and dance which was popular in the United States in the 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York
Read → EntryBoogie (genre)
Boogie (sometimes called post-disco and
Read → EntryBoogie rock
Boogie rock is a style of blues rock music that developed in the late 1960s. Its key feature is a repetitive driving rhythm, which emphasizes the groove. Although inspired by earlier musical styles
Read → EntryBoogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie also known as boogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, but had already developed in African-American communities since the 1870s. It was eventually
Read → EntryBoom bap
Boom bap is a subgenre of hip-hop and music production style that was prominent in East Coast hip-hop during the golden age of hip-hop from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. The term "boom bap" is
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Boomba music, also referred to as kapuka (due to the beat pattern; not to be confused with kapuka rap), is a form of hip pop music popular in Kenya. It incorporates hip hop, reggae and African
Read → EntryBorder ballad
Border ballads are a group of songs in the long tradition of balladry collected from the Anglo-Scottish border. Like all traditional ballads, they were traditionally sung unaccompanied. There may be
Read → EntryBorgeet
Borgeets (, IAST transliteration: baragīta) are a collection of lyrical songs that are set to specific ragas but not necessarily to any tala. These songs, composed by Srimanta Sankardeva and
Read → EntryBoria (theatre)
Boria (Jawi: بوريا) is a form of Malay theatre of Indian origin which has through adaptive processes, become the one and only theatre of Malay community in Penang,
Read → EntryBosnian and Herzegovinian hip-hop
Bosnia and Herzegovina hip-hop (or simply Bosnian hip-hop) is a style of hip-hop music made in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although quite a new music style in Bosnia, it has nevertheless proven to be
Read → EntryBossa nova
Bossa nova () is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle
Read → EntryBosstown Sound
The Bosstown Sound (or Boston Sound) was the catchphrase of a marketing campaign to promote psychedelic rock and psychedelic pop bands in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 1960s. The concept was
Read → EntryBoston hardcore
Boston hardcore is the hardcore punk scene of Boston, Massachusetts. Beginning in the early 1980s, bands such as SSD, DYS, Jerry's Kids and Negative FX formed a nascent hardcore scene in the city
Read → EntryBothy ballad
Bothy ballads are songs sung by farm labourers in the northeast region of Scotland. Bothies are farm outbuildings, where unmarried labourers used to sleep, often in harsh conditions. In the evening,
Read → EntryBounce music
Bounce music is a genre of New Orleans hip-hop music that is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s in the city's housing projects. Popular bounce artists have included DJ Jubilee,
Read → EntryBouncy techno
Bouncy techno is a hardcore dance music rave style that developed in the early 1990s from Scotland and Northern England. Described as an accessible gabber-like form, it was popularised by Scottish DJ
Read → EntryBourrée
The bourrée (, ; ; also in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it. The bourrée resembles the gavotte in that it is in double time and often has
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Bouyon (pronunciation: boo-your) is a genre of Dominican music that originated in Dominica in the late 1980s. Prominent bouyon groups include Windward Caribbean Kulture (WCK); Roots, Stems and
Read → EntryBouyon soca
Bouyon soca is a fusion-genre of bouyon music originating from Dominica and soca music originating from Trinidad and Tobago and the other English speaking Caribbean islands. Bouyon soca typically
Read → EntryBoy band
A boy band is a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation. Generally, boy bands perform love songs marketed towards
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