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Genres and styles whose names start with IT.

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Italian beat

Italian beat () is the Italian form of beat music (), circa 1963 to 1968, inspired mainly by British popular music of the

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Italian classical music

Medieval music Plainsong Plainsong, also known as plainchant, and more specifically Gregorian, Ambrosian, and Gallican chant, refer generally to a style of monophonic, unaccompanied, early Christian

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Italian folk music

Italian folk music reflects a long and diverse history. National unification occurred relatively late on the Italian peninsula, allowing its many hundreds of regional cultures to retain distinct

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Italian hip-hop

Italian hip-hop is hip-hop rapped in the Italian language and/or made by Italian artists. One of the first hip-hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Bologna's Isola Posse All

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Italian jazz

Italian jazz refers to jazz music that is played by Italian musicians, or to jazz music that is in some way connected to

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Italian occult psychedelia

Italian occult psychedelia (IOP) is a subgenre of Italian psychedelic music characterized by obscure atmospheres. Italian occult psychedelia was coined by journalist Antonio Ciarletta in an article

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Italian opera

Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was born in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history

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Italian popular music

Italian popular music is musical output which is not usually considered academic or classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions, and it may be defined in two ways: it can

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Italo dance

Italo dance (also written Italodance) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the mid-1990s in Italy as a regional development of eurodance; its sound subsequently evolved into a

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Italo disco

Italo disco or Italodisco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the early 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current

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Italo house

Italo house (often simply referred to as "Italian" or "Italian house" in the UK) is a form of house music originating in Italy. Typically popular in Italy, Britain, and United States since the late

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