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Genres and styles whose names start with JU.

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Jug band

A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a lineup of players of other instruments, both conventional and homemade. The homemade instruments are most often ordinary objects adapted to or

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Jugni

Jugni is an age-old narrative device used in Punjabi folk music. It is the traditional music of the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. Jugni is sung at Punjabi weddings in India, Pakistan, and

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Jùjú music

Jùjú () is a style of Yoruba popular music, originated in Lagos, Nigeria. Early styles of jùjú music consisted of banjo or acoustic guitar, drums, gourd rattle, tambourine, and vocals. Jùjú music

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Jukebox musical

A jukebox musical is a stage musical or musical film most of whose songs are already well known in popular music, rather than part of an original score. Some jukebox musicals use a wide variety of

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Jump blues

Jump blues is an uptempo style of blues with jazz and boogie woogie influence, usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm

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Jumpstyle

Jumpstyle is a subgenre of electronic dance music that emerged in Western Europe in the late 1990s, particularly in Belgium and the Netherlands. It is associated with a distinctive dance style

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Jungle music

Jungle is a genre of electronic music that developed in the 1990s out of the UK rave scene and Jamaican sound system culture. Emerging from breakbeat hardcore, the style is characterised by rapid

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