POPULAR MUSIC

Pronunciation (US):

• POPULAR MUSIC (noun)
  The noun POPULAR MUSIC has 1 sense:

1. any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)

  Familiarity information: POPULAR MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.

• POPULAR MUSIC (noun)

Meaning:

Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

popular music; popular music genre

Hypernyms ("popular music" is a kind of...):

genre; music genre; musical genre; musical style (an expressive style of music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "popular music"):

disco; disco music (popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques)

reggae (popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar)

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)

rockabilly (a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat)

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)

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)

jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)

ballroom music; dance music; danceroom music (a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing)

ethnic music; folk; folk music (the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community)

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)

macumba (popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult)

skiffle (a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments)