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popular music
popular music n (Music, other) music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies. See also pop2 Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  popular music - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)popular music genredisco, disco music - popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discothequesmacumba - popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cultpop music, pop - music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic loveethnic music, folk music, folk - the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a communityballroom music, dance music, danceroom music - a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancingjazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex stylesrap music, hip-hop, rap - genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emergedR and B, rhythm and blues - a combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' rollrockabilly - a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beatrock and roll, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rock-and-roll, rock'n'roll, rock - a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."reggae - popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitarskiffle - a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instrumentsmusic genre, musical genre, musical style, genre - an expressive style of music |
popular music
popular music: see country and western musiccountry and western music,
American popular music form originating in the Southeast (country music) and the Southwest and West (western music). The two regional styles coalesced in the 1920s when recorded material became available in rural areas, and they were further
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music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in recent studies. These assume that the germ of a folk melody is produced by an individual and altered in transmission into a
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American religious musical form that owes much of its origin to the Christian conversion of West Africans enslaved in the American South. Gospel music partly evolved from the songs slaves sang on plantations, notably work songs, and from the Protestant hymns they
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the most significant form of musical expression of African-American culture and arguably the most outstanding contribution the United States has made to the art of music. Origins of Jazz
Jazz developed in the latter part of the 19th cent.
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or hip-hop,
genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City, at first associated with an athletic style of dancing, known as breakdancing.
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type of music originating in the United States in the mid-1950s and increasingly popular throughout much of the world. Origins of Rock
Essentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black
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Related to popular music: pop musicSynonyms for popular musicnoun any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)SynonymsRelated Words- disco
- disco music
- macumba
- pop music
- pop
- ethnic music
- folk music
- folk
- ballroom music
- dance music
- danceroom music
- jazz
- rap music
- hip-hop
- rap
- R and B
- rhythm and blues
- rockabilly
- rock and roll
- rock music
- rock 'n' roll
- rock-and-roll
- rock'n'roll
- rock
- reggae
- skiffle
- music genre
- musical genre
- musical style
- genre
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