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Word from Paris to acknowledge musical genre (6)

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I believe the answer is:

motown

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'musical genre' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'word from paris to acknowledge' is the wordplay.
'word from paris' becomes 'mot' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to acknowledge' becomes 'own' (I've seen this before).
'mot'+'own'='MOTOWN'

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(Other definitions for motown that I've seen before include "Genre of music originally from Detroit" , "Tamla -, US soul music record label" , "Detroit and American record company" , "form of music" , "Detroit's musical export" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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