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Genres and styles whose names start with HA.

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Hacha'a

Hach'a, also written as Hacha or Hachaa or Hechea (from Iraqi Arabic هَچَع meaning "lying down"), with or without the Arabic definite article Al- or El-, is an Iraqi folk poetic, musical, and dance

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Hadhrami music

Hadhrami music is one of the five main Yemeni musical genres or "colours" (). It is native to the Hadhramaut region of Yemen and it is regarded as one of the most prominent forms of Arabic music. Its

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Haimen folk song

Haimen folk song is popular in the sea sand area of Haimen. It is the production condition of local operas and also a kind of wu song. Haimen folk songs are divided into two kinds: one kind is

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Haitian hip-hop

Rap Kreyòl started in Haiti in the early 1980s by Master Dji, who witnessed how American hip hop gave birth to French hip hop while living in France. Hence, he moved back to Haiti and started the hip

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Haitian Vodou drumming

Vodou drumming and associated ceremonies are folk ritual faith system of henotheistic religion of Haitian Vodou originated and inextricable part of Haitian culture. Vodou drumming is widely practiced

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Hakka hill song

Hakka hill songs (; ) are rural songs sung in the Hakka language by the Hakka people. They are probably one of the better known elements that reflect Hakka culture, regarded by many as the 'pearl of

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Hakka popular music

Hakka popular music (abbreviated as Hakkapop) is a genre of popular music composed and performed in the Hakka language, also known as modern Hakka music. It is mainly prevalent in Malaysia, Taiwan,

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Halloween music

Halloween music is a music genre defined by themes of horror and popularity in association with the holiday of

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Hambo

The hambo is a traditional dance that originated in Sweden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a couple dance in time, danced to music played with a strong accent on the first beat and a

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Hamburger Schule

The Hamburger Schule (German for 'Hamburg School') is a music movement current in Germany during the 1980s and early 1990s. With some active bands and artists it is still present. It took up

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Hamd

Hamd () is a word that exclusively praises God - whether written or spoken. Thus, The word "Hamd" is always followed by the name of God (Allah) - a phrase known as the Tahmid - "al-ḥamdu li-llāh"

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Hanmai

Hanmai () is a Chinese internet subculture that emerged in Northeast China during the 2000s and gained mainstream popularity in 2010. In 2012, YY.com, the main platform for contributing to and

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Hanukkah music

Hanukkah music (or Chanukah music) () contains several songs associated with the festival of

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Hapa haole music

Hapa haole music ( in Hawaiian) is a genre of Hawaiian music which utilizes primarily English lyrics with themes and instruments attributed to Hawaii, such as the ukulele and steel guitar. Although

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Happy hardcore

Happy hardcore, also known as 4-beat, is a subgenre of hardcore dance music. It emerged both from the UK breakbeat hardcore rave scene, and Belgian, German and Dutch hardcore techno scenes in the

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Harana (serenade)

The harana () is a serenade tradition in rural areas of the Philippines in which young men may formally meet single lady visitors. Harana is composed of the orality of indigenous poetry intertwined

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Hard bop

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences

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Hard NRG

Hard NRG, nu-NRG, filthy hard house, or more recently just filth, is an electronic dance music genre similar in structure (with regard to sequencing and programming) to UK hard house form, taking

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Hard rock

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by vocals and electric guitars that are aggressive and distorted relative to traditional rock music. Hard rock began in the

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Hard trance

Hard trance is a subgenre of trance music that originated in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in the early 1990s as the Breakbeat hardcore production community began to diversify into new and

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Hardbag

Hardbag is a genre of electronic dance music popular in the mid-1990s. Having evolved out of the handbag house scene in 1993–1994, the genre enjoyed massive, albeit brief, popularity, with several

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Hardbass

Hardbass or hard bass () is a subgenre of pumping house that originated in Saint Petersburg, Russia during the late 1990s, drawing inspiration from bouncy techno, hardstyle, as well as local Russian

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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos (160 to

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Hardcore hip-hop

Hardcore hip-hop (also known as hardcore rap) is a subgenre of hip-hop that developed through the East Coast hip-hop scene in the 1980s. Pioneered by such artists as Run-DMC, Schoolly D, Boogie Down

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Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms

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Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom

Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom (often abbreviated as UKHC and during the 1980s called Britcore) began in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the second wave of punk rock in the country. The

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Hardstyle

Hardstyle, is an electronic dance genre that emerged in the late 1990s, with origins in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Hardstyle mixes influences from techno, new beat and hardcore. Early

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Hardvapour

Hardvapour is an Internet-based microgenre departing from the calm, muzak-sampling capitalist utopia concept of the latter in favor of a gabber- and punk-influenced sound. Canadian music producer

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Harmonica concerto

Since the 1940s, a number of concertos have been written for the harmonica. Nearly all harmonica concertos are composed for the chromatic harmonica. One of the few exceptions is the 2001 concerto for

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Harmonie

A is an ensemble of wind instruments (usually about five to eight players) employed by an aristocratic patron, particularly during the Classical era of the 18th century. The Harmonie would be

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Harpsichord concerto

A harpsichord concerto is a piece of music for an orchestra with the harpsichord in a solo role (though for another sense, see below). Sometimes these works are played on the modern piano (see piano

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Harsh noise

Harsh noise is a subgenre of noise music that emerged in the early 1980s, originating from the Kansai no wave movement and later Japanoise, primarily through acts such as Merzbow, Hijokaidan,

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Hauntology (music)

Hauntology is a music genre, movement or a loosely defined stylistic feature and typically draws on British cultural sources from the 1930s to the 1960s, including library music, film and TV

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Hausa music

The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Sudan, Cameroon and in many other West and Central African countries. Their folk music has played an important part in the

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Hayashi (music)

A is a group of performers who provide musical accompaniment for Japanese Nō or kabuki theatre, yose () performances of rakugo, or a festival. In Nō, the hayashi sit along the rear of the stage,

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