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disco, disco music
popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques
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macumba
popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
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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
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ethnic music, folk, folk music
the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community
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ballroom music, dance music, danceroom music
a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing
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jazz
a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
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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
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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
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rockabilly
a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
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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
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reggae
popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar
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skiffle
a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
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scat, scat singing
singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
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folk ballad, folk song, folksong
a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
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schottische
music performed for dancing the schottische
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C and W, country and western, country music
a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments
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gospel, gospel singing
folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul)
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square-dance music
music performed for square dancing
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bebop, bop
an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
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boogie, boogie-woogie
an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
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cool jazz
jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat
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funk
an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
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hot jazz
jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation
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modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazz
any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940
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heavy metal, heavy metal music
loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
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art rock, progressive rock
a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing
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acid rock, psychedelic rock
a musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience
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punk, punk rock
rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
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trad
traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s
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jive, swing, swing music
a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz