popular music

Noun
  1. Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) (synset 107073295)
    is a type of: genre, music genre, musical genre, musical style - an expressive style of music
    subtypes:
    • disco, disco music - popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
    • macumba - popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
    • pop, pop music - 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 love
    • ethnic music, folk, folk music - the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
    • ballroom music, dance music, danceroom music - a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing
    • jazz - a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
    • hip-hop, rap, rap music - 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 emerged
    • r 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' roll
    • rockabilly - a 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-roll - a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
    • reggae - popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar
    • skiffle - a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
    same as: popular music genre

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