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Genres and styles whose names start with PO.

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Pogi rock

A Pogi rock () is a slang term and style for alternative rock bands in the Philippines from the early 2000s that became popular for their love songs, heartbreak anthems, and attractive image. The

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Polish hip-hop

The Polish hip hop scene started in the early 1990s, due to the popularity of American rap. Nevertheless, rap style in Polish music has its deep roots in the 1980s Polish punk rock, alternative rock,

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Polish jazz

Polish jazz has a history that spans periods of both acceptance and political

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Polish opera

Polish opera may be broadly understood to include operas staged in Poland and works written for foreign stages by Polish composers, as well as opera in the Polish language. The tradition reaches back

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Polish reggae

Reggae is one of the most popular music genres in Poland. The rastafari philosophy is considered to constitute the main influence on Polish reggae. The majority of songs are sung in Polish, yet a

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Political hip-hop

Political hip hop (also known as political rap and conscious hip-hop) is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged in the 1980s as a form of political expression and activism. It typically addresses

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Political music in China

Political music in China (政治歌曲) consists of Patriotic Music (爱国歌曲) and Revolutionary Music (革命歌曲). It is an ideological music with political or nationalistic content, sometimes taking the form of a

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Political podcast

A political podcast is a podcast that focus on contemporary politics and current affairs. Most political podcasts maintain a connection with an existing media source such as a newspaper or magazine.

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Polka

Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though generally associated with Czech and Central European culture,

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Polo (flamenco palo)

Polo () is the name of a flamenco palo or musical form. There is only one known song in this palo, which is extremely similar to another palo called caña, and its guitar accompaniment, like the caña,

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Polo (music)

Polo designates two forms of Venezuelan folk music. One that originates from Margarita Island and another one that is played in Coro, in the state of

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Polonaise

The polonaise (, ; , ) is a dance originating in Poland, and one of the five Polish national dances in

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Polska (dance)

The polska (Swedish plural polskor) is a family of music and dance forms shared by the Nordic countries: called polsk in Denmark, polka or polska in Estonia, polska in Sweden and Finland, and by

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Polyphonic era

The Polyphonic era is a term used since the mid-19th century to designate a historical period in Western classical music in which harmony in music is subordinate to polyphony. It generally refers to

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Polyphonic song of Epirus

The polyphonic song of Epirus is a form of traditional folk polyphony practiced among Albanians, Aromanians, Greeks and ethnic Macedonians in southern Albania and northwestern Greece. The polyphonic

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Polyphony

Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one

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Pontic Greek music

Pontic Greek music, also called Pontian Greek music, comprises the musical traditions of the Pontic Greeks from antiquity to the modern day. Song and dance have a long history in the Pontos, ranging

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Pop

Pop or POP may refer

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Pop kreatif

Pop kreatif () is an Indonesian offshoot and subgenre of Indo pop that emerged in the late 20th century as a fusion of Indonesian music and contemporary global influences such as funk, jazz, disco,

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Pop melankolis

Pop melankolis (), also known as pop manis (sweet pop) and pejoratively as pop cengeng or lagu cengeng (weepy pop or weepy song), is a subgenre of Indo pop originated in the 1960s and reached its

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Pop melayu

Pop melayu () is a pop rock music genre influenced by rhythms and musical traditions of the Malays of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, plus their cultural

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Pop metal

Pop metal (sometimes conflated with or used interchangeably with glam metal) is an umbrella term for commercial heavy metal and hard rock styles that feature prominent pop music elements such as

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Pop music

Pop music, or simply pop, is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music

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Pop music in Ukraine

Pop music in Ukraine is Western influenced pop music in its various forms that has been growing in popularity in Ukraine since the

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Pop rap

Pop rap (also known as pop hip-hop, pop hop, hip pop, melodic hip-hop, or melodic rap) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip-hop with pop's preference for melodic vocals, catchy

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock ) is rock music with greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music. Originating in the

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Pop screamo

Pop screamo (or mall screamo) is a subgenre of post-hardcore that combines elements of screamo, emo pop and metalcore. It is characterized by the incorporation of both screamo-indebted screaming in

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Pop-punk

Pop-punk (also punk pop, and alternatively spelled without the hyphen) is a rock music genre that combines elements of punk rock and pop. It is defined by its fast-paced, energetic tempos, and

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Popcorn (Belgian music style)

Popcorn (sometimes Belgian popcorn or oldies popcorn) is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium in the 1970s and 1980s. The style includes a wide variety of mostly American and

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Popcorn (Romanian music style)

Popcorn is a subgenre of dance music that originated in Romania in the late 2000s. It is inspired by Europop and dance-pop, featuring house and trance rhythms as well as fast tempos. The arrangement

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no

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Popular music in Croatia

Croatian popular music is the popular music of Croatia. Prominent mainstream pop artists include: Oliver Dragojević, Gibonni, Dino Dvornik, Toni Cetinski, Thompson and others. Croatia is known for

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Popular music in Yugoslavia

Popular music in Yugoslavia includes the pop and rock music of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including all their genres and subgenres. The scene included the constituent

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Popular music of Manchester

Manchester's music scene produced successful bands in the 1960s including the Hollies, the Bee Gees and Herman's Hermits. After the punk rock era, Manchester produced popular bands including Joy

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Pornogrind

Pornogrind (also known as porngrind or pornogore) is a musical microgenre offshoot of goregrind that lyrically deals with sexual and pornographic

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Porro

Porro is a musical style and dance from the Caribbean region of Colombia. It is a Colombian cumbia rhythm that developed into its own subgenre. It was originally a folkloric expression from the Sinú

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Posi music

Posi music (in American English, pronounced ) is a colloquial phrase that some modern listeners some have applied retroactively to music and songs in this genre that have been around since the at

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Positive hardcore

Positive hardcore (sometimes shortened to posicore or posi-core) is a branch of the hardcore punk music scene that is socially aware, or focuses on values such as being inclusive, community-oriented,

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Posse cut

A posse cut is a popular form of song in hip hop music that involves successive verses by four or more rappers. Tracks described as posse cuts by Rolling Stone include A Tribe Called Quest's

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Post-bop

Post-bop is a jazz term with several possible definitions and usages. It has been variously defined as a musical period, a musical genre, a musical style, and a body of music, sometimes in different

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Post-Britpop

Post-Britpop is an alternative rock subgenre and is the period in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following Britpop, when the media were identifying a "new generation" or "second wave" of guitar

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term and genre to describe an aftermath in popular music history 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest

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Post-dubstep

Post-dubstep is an umbrella term applied to a range of musical styles that have been influenced by the sparse, syncopated rhythms and heavy sub-bass of the UK dubstep scene. The breadth of styles

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Post-grunge

Post-grunge, also known as butt rock, is a musical offshoot of grunge that has a less abrasive or intense tone than traditional grunge. Originally, the term was used derisively and indicated

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Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression. Like the term "post-punk", the term

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Post-Internet (music)

Post-Internet music is a style of 21st century music addressing the Internet's ubiquity in society as influenced by the post-Internet art movement. The term "post-Internet art" was originally coined

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Post-metal

Post-metal is a music genre rooted in heavy metal but exploring approaches beyond metal conventions. It emerged in the 1990s with bands such as Neurosis and Godflesh, who transformed metal texture

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Post-no wave

Post-no wave is a style and era of music that emerged from the original New York City no wave scene in the early to mid 1980s. It's considered to have arisen after the disintegration of the original

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Post-noise

Post-noise is a 21st century music genre and scene related to hypnagogic pop, new-age and hauntology. The term was featured in writer David Keenan's 2009 article Childhood's End in issue 306 of the

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Post-progressive

Post-progressive is a type of rock music distinguished from vintage progressive rock styles, specifically 1970s prog. Post-progressive draws upon newer developments in popular music and the

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Post-punk

Post-punk (or postpunk) is a loosely defined music genre and period that emerged in the late 1970s in the wake of punk rock. The concept was originally outlined by Jon Savage in his "New Musick"

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Post-punk revival

Post-punk revival (also known as indie rock revival or garage rock revival) and garage rock revival. The genre has an emphasis on "rock authenticity" that was seen as a reaction to the commercialism

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of experimental rock that emphasizes texture, atmosphere, and non-traditional song structures over conventional rock techniques. Post-rock acts can often combine rock

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Postminimalism

Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 and used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond,

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Postmodern music

Postmodern music is music in the art music tradition produced in the postmodern era. It also describes any music that follows aesthetical and philosophical trends of postmodernism. As an aesthetic

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Powada

The powada () is a genre of Marathi poetry that was during the late 17th century in India. Powada, which means ‘to glorify’, is a traditional Marathi ballad that traces its history to more than 750

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Power electronics (music genre)

Power electronics (also known as heavy electronics) is a subgenre of noise and industrial music, characterized by static, screeching waves of feedback, analogue synthesizers, sub-bass pulses and high

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Power metal

Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a

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Power noise

Power noise (also known as rhythmic noise, rhythm 'n' noise and distorted beat music) is a subgenre of noise and post-industrial music, that originated predominantly in Europe during the 1990s. It

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Power pop

Power pop is a subgenre of rock music and a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Who. It typically incorporates melodic hooks,

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Powerviolence

Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence) is a chaotic and fast subgenre of hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. In contrast with grindcore, which is a

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