popular music

noun

1. music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies See also pop 2

Example Sentences

“Most people never write any hits, let alone songs that change popular music, which certainly defines him as a player and a writer,” says Sowders.

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Now, when women dominate popular music, a Lilith Fair might not seem as culturally necessary; but those were different times,

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Adroit in the green arts of film and popular music, L.A. is only now beginning to cultivate opera.

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During the past decade, Stanley published three music journalism books: one on the birth of popular music, another on its 20th century apex and a more recent one on the Bee Gees.

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But that 1951 performance had a huge effect on how to transform folk music, popular music, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and what-not, twisted, transformed and tacked together.

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