música popular

Definitions of música popular
  1. noun
    any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)
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    música pop, 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
    folk, música 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
    rock & roll, rock and roll, rock'n'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
    scat
    singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
    canción tradicional
    a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
    chotis
    music performed for dancing the schottische
    música country
    a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
    bebop, bop
    an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
    bugui, bugui-bugui
    an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
    jazz moderno, neojazz
    any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940
    swing
    a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
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