popular music genre

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popular music genre - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)popular musicdisco, 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