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Genres and styles whose names start with TW.

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Twee pop

Twee pop is a subgenre of indie pop that originally emerged in the United Kingdom during the mid-to late 1980s. The style has been described as "excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or

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Twelve-bar blues

The twelve-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and

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Twelve-tone technique

The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition. The technique is a means of ensuring

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Twin Cities hip-hop

Twin Cities hip-hop, also referred to as Minneapolis hip-hop, is a subgenre of Midwestern hip-hop music that originates from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in the U.S. state of

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Twist (dance)

The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became a worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity while drawing controversies from critics

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Two-tone (music genre)

Two-tone, or 2 tone, also known as ska revival, and references a desire to transcend and defuse racial tensions in Thatcher-era Britain: many two-tone groups, such as the Specials, the Selecter and

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Twoubadou

Twoubadou (; ) music is a popular genre of guitar-based music from Haiti that has a long and important place in Haitian culture. The word comes from troubadour, a medieval poet-musician who wrote and

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