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Bangladeshi band music
Bangladeshi band music, also known as Bangla band, is the tradition of self-written, guitar-driven songs by bands in Bangladesh, begun after the 1971 liberation war by Azam Khan's band Uccharon.
Bangladeshi rock
Bangladeshi rock is the rock and heavy metal scene of Bangladesh, growing from 1970s post-independence bands into a Bengali-metal movement led by Rockstrata and Warfaze.
Lok dohori
Lok dohori, also called Dohori (Nepali: लोक दोहोरी), is a Nepali folk tradition of improvised male–female duet singing in witty rhymed couplets, usually about love.
Nepali folk
Nepali folk, or lok geet, is Nepal's popular folk-music genre, standardized at Radio Nepal around 1950, with the improvised duet dohori its most popular form.
Nepali hip hop
Nepali hip hop, known as Nephop or Nep-hop, is the Nepali-language rap scene of Nepal, from Girish's 1994 first single through the battle league Raw Barz to protest rap in the 2020s.
Pakistani hip hop
Pakistani hip hop, also called Desi hip hop, is the Urdu- and Punjabi-language rap scene of Pakistan, anchored in Karachi and led by Young Stunners and Bohemia.
Sri Lankan pop
Sri Lankan pop is the popular music of Sri Lanka, sung mainly in Sinhala and English, from baila roots through the 1960s band era to today.
Sufi kalam (music genre)
Sufi kalam is the devotional song repertoire of South Asian Sufism, sung above all as the Punjabi kafi, with core poets Shah Hussain, Bulleh Shah, and Khwaja Ghulam Farid.