1. Popular Music and Contemporary U.S. Culture
... of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended to appeal to the masses (e.g., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno, funk, rap, house). This wide-ranging term encompasses a plethora of musical styles involving various rhythms, vocal styles, instruments, and technologies. Characteristically, popular music is a global ... late-nineteenth century. The Tin Pan Alley era initially specialized in ballads and novelty songs but later began to incorporate popular styles of the period, including ...
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