| slack key guitar | Hawaiian guitar with loosened strings, having a characteristic resonant sound.
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| steel guitar | Guitar with metal strings, held horizontally on the lap, played by sliding a metal bar along the strings with the left hand while plucking the strings with the right hand.
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| ukulele | Small Hawaiian guitar-like instrument with four strings.
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| Cajun music | An accordion-based country music of the Cajun people, vibrant, lighthearted, often with a strong dance beat.
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| zydeco | Rock-flavored black Cajun style of country music.
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| urban folk revival | Socially conscious movement popular in the 1960s, relating country music and mainstream pop.
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| alternative country | Variously defined style, blending punk and rock-and-roll effects with country sounds.
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