jazz
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a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex stylestypes:boogie-woogiean instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)type of:musique populaireany genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
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a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bandstype of:musique de dansemusic to dance to
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