popular music

• Pop Rock is a combined popular & rock music intended for marketing & commercial purposes, emphasizing on songwriting & recording craft rather than rock style.
• Funk is a mixture of soul, jazz & RnB dance music genre with a signature groove that emphasizes downbeat.
• Country is a popular music based on the folk style of the southern rural United States or the music of cowboys in the American West.
• Rock & Roll is a type of popular dance music originated in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat & simple melodies.
• Rock & roll was an amalgam of black rhythm & blues & white country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure & an instrumentation of guitar & drums.
• Motown is a type of soul music referred to the trademark “The Motown Sound”, crafted with an ear towards pop appeal, typically used tambourines to accent the back beat, prominent & often melodic electric bass-guitar lines, distinctive melodic & chord structures, and a call-and-response singing style that is originated in gospel music.
• Techno pop (synth pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that uses the synthesizer as the main musical instrument.
• House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat & a tempo of 120 to 130 BPM with deeper bassline.
• Alternative Music is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s & become widely popular in 1990s.
• Disco is a pop music intended mainly for dancing in discos, typically soul-influenced & melodic with a regular bass beat & became popular in the late 1970s.
• Hip-Hop / Rap is a combination of Black & Latin American pop music with rapping, turntables, breakdancing & DJ scratching, it has a synthesized bass lines & beatboxing.
• R&B (Rhythm & blues) is a genre of popular music of Afro-American record companies.
• Punk is an indie music genre of mid-1970s.
• K-pop is a genre of music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture, exhibiting a wide spectrum of musical & visual elements, influenced by styles & genres from around the world, such as pop, experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, & classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots.
• Hard Rock (Heavy Rock) & Heavy Metal is a rock genre developed a thick, massive sound, distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, & loudness, the lyrics & performances are sometimes associated with aggression & machismo.