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Genres and styles whose names start with WE.

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Wedding music

Music is often played at wedding celebrations, including during the ceremony and at festivities before or after the event. The music can be performed live by instrumentalists or vocalists or may use

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Weird SoundCloud

Weird SoundCloud, or SoundClown, is a mashup parody music scene taking place on the online distribution platform SoundCloud. The scene has been described by its producers and music journalists to be

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Welsh bardic music

Welsh bardic music is a form of Welsh folk music that was most widespread during Wales in the Middle Ages, pre-Edwardian conquest. Originally, bardic music was performed by a bard, who would compose

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Welsh folk music

Welsh folk music () is traditional music sung or played in Wales, by Welsh people or originating from Wales. Folk artists include; traditional bands Calan and Ar log; harpists Sian James, Catrin

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Welsh hip-hop

Welsh hip-hop () is a genre of Welsh music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of hip-hop made in

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West Coast hip-hop

West Coast hip-hop is a regional genre of hip-hop music that encompasses any artists or music that originated in the West Coast of the United States. West Coast hip-hop began to dominate from a radio

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West Coast jazz

West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in the American West Coast cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz,

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West gallery music

West gallery music, also known as Georgian psalmody, is the sacred music (metrical psalms, with a few hymns and anthems) sung and played in Church of England parish churches, as well as nonconformist

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Western music (North America)

Western music, also known as Cowboy music or simply western, is a form of music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada.

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Western opera in Chinese

Chinese contemporary classical opera () is a Chinese-language musical art form drawing on western opera traditions - distinct from modern developments of traditional Chinese opera. One of the first

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Western swing

Western swing, also known as country jazz, is a subgenre of traditional country music. The movement was an outgrowth of country music and jazz. The music is an amalgamation of rural, cowboy, polka,

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Western swing fiddle

Western swing originated in the 1920s and 1930s; small towns in the US Southwest. Although sometimes subject to the term "Texas swing" it is widely associated with Tulsa, others contend that "Western

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