SW
Genres and styles whose names start with SW.
Swamp blues
Swamp blues is a type of Louisiana blues that developed in the Black communities of Southwest Louisiana in the 1950s. It incorporates influences from other genres, particularly zydeco and Cajun. Its
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Swamp pop is a music genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s by young Cajuns and Creoles, it combines New
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Swamp rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the mid-1960s as a fusion of rockabilly and soul music with swamp blues, country music and funk. The genre originated in Louisiana by artists
Read → EntrySwedish death metal
Swedish death metal originated in the late 1980s and developed further in the 1990s. Many Swedish death metal bands are associated with the melodic death metal movement, thus giving Swedish death
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Swedish folk music is a genre of music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. The primary instrument of Swedish folk music is the fiddle. Another
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Swedish hip hop originated in the cities of Stockholm and Malmö in the first half of the 1980s. Early on, most rappers in Sweden performed in English. Funkalics and The Latin Kings, two very
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Sweet jazz is an early derivative form of jazz which adapts the blues-based harmony, syncopated rhythms, and complex arrangements of Dixieland jazz to a popular dance band format with a slower,
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Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing represents the most famous era of jazz
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The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning in the early 1980s and reaching a peak in the late 1990s. The music was
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The Swiss hip hop culture began in the early
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