| 单词 | popular music |
| 释义 | popular music (once / 19313 pages) n WORD FAMILY popular music USAGE EXAMPLESStravinsky crossed boundaries — he was embracing folk music from Russia and popular music. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) It’s ugly to think of popular music as a game that separates winners from losers, inductees from snubs, bestsellers from flops. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Their soundtracks were drawn from the best of US popular music: Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. The Guardian(Dec 09, 2016) n any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) Syn|Hypo|Hyper popular music genre disco, disco music popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques macumbapopular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult pop, pop musicmusic of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love ethnic music, folk, folk musicthe traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community ballroom music, dance music, danceroom musica genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing jazza genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles hip-hop, rap, rap musicgenre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged R and B, rhythm and bluesa combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll rockabillya fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat rock, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music, rock'n'roll, rock-and-rolla genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western reggaepopular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar skifflea style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments scat, scat singingsinging jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument folk ballad, folk song, folksonga song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture schottischemusic performed for dancing the schottische C and W, country and western, country musica simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments gospel, gospel singingfolk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) square-dance musicmusic performed for square dancing bebop, bopan early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) boogie, boogie-woogiean instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) cool jazzjazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat funkan earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar hot jazzjazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazzany of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940 heavy metal, heavy metal musicloud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery art rock, progressive rocka style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing acid rock, psychedelic rocka musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience punk, punk rockrock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock tradtraditional jazz as revived in the 1950s jive, swing, swing musica style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz genre, music genre, musical genre, musical style an expressive style of music |
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