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• Popular music:

  • Widely appealing and enjoyed by a large audience
  • Composed and published to make a profit
  • Encompasses various genres and styles that gain widespread popularity and commercial success
• Rock and roll:

  • Extension of rhythm and blues
  • Characterized by the use of guitars, a strong syncopated rhythm, and youth-oriented text
• Soul:

  • Popular music style among American black performers
  • Musical influence from Motown and intense, spontaneous passion of singing from black gospel music tradition
• Country Music:

  • Also called hillbilly music and country and western
  • Practiced and enjoyed by white Americans generally of the working classes of the south
• Heavy Metal:

  • Kind of rock music since 1972
  • Features very loud amplification, electric guitars in long virtuosic acts, electronic distortion of sounds, and attention-grabbing stage acts
• Punk Rock:

  • Loud, fast style of rock music
  • Characterized by nihilistic lyrics that reject values, religion, and morality
• Disco:

  • Popular dance music with elements of soul music
  • Simple and repetitive lyrics with a strong Latin American rhythm
• Rap:

  • Black popular music with improvised and rhythmic rhymed verses
  • Chanted to a highly rhythmic, dance-based accompaniment
• Rhythm and blues (R&B):

  • Form of American popular music influenced by African blues
  • Characterized by a strong beat
• Hip-hop:

  • Dance derived from popular music combined with street dance
  • Energetic movements that jive with the beat
• Benefits of Hip-hop:

  • Helps tone and strengthen muscles
  • Alternative weight loss program
  • Improves cardiovascular strength, balance, coordination, agility, and other fitness components
  • Reduces stress and anxiety
  • Increases confidence
  • Improves cognitive abilities
  • Enhances social skills
  • Promotes teamwork
  • Aids in weight management
  • Enhances overall physical fitness
• Different Types of Hip-hop Dance Moves:

  • Tutting: Emphasizes creating geometric shapes and movements with the body's extremities like arms, hands, and fingers
  • B-Boying (Breakdancing): Athletic, energetic, and improvisational street dance style with elements like toprock, drops, downrock, power moves, and freeze
  • Waacking: Focuses on arm movements creating shapes and poses above and around the head in a fast-moving style
  • Shuffling: Improvised dancing with repeated shuffling of feet inwards and outwards while moving arms in sync with the beat
• • Popping: Funk dance style based on quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to create jerks in the body
  • Locking: Freezing from a fast movement and holding a certain position for a short while
  • Krumping: Energetic and expressive street dance style with sharp and fast movements