Encyclopediapopular music:popular music: see country and western music; folk song; gospel music; jazz; rap music; rock music. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on popular music from Fact Monster:
- gospel music - gospel music gospel music, American religious musical form that owes much of its origin to the ...
- folk song - folk song folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs ...
- rap music - rap music rap music or hip-hop,genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic ...
- jazz - jazz jazz, the most significant form of musical expression of African-American culture and arguably ...
- rock music - rock music rock music, type of music originating in the United States in the mid-1950s and ...
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