English > popular music: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time). |
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| Synonym | popular music genre |
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| Narrower | dance music, danceroom music, ballroom music | A genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing |
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| disco, disco music | Popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s) |
| folk music, ethnic music, folk | The traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community |
| jazz | A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles |
| macumba | popular dance music of Brazil |
| pop music, pop | music of general appeal to teenagers |
| rap, rap music, hip-hop | genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment |
| reggae | popular music originating in the West Indies |
| rhythm and blues, R and B | A combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians |
| rock 'n' roll, rock'n'roll, rock-and-roll, rock and roll, rock, rock music | A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s |
| rockabilly | A fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s |
| skiffle | A style of popular music in the 1950s |
| Broader | music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style | An expressive style of music |
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| Spanish | música popular |
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| Catalan | música popular |
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