popular music

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popular music - any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) 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 macumba - popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult pop 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 love ethnic music, folk music, folk - 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 rap 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 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 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music, rock'n'roll, rock-and-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 guitar skiffle - a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments music genre, musical genre, musical style, genre - an expressive style of music