popular music genre
- noun
- /ˈpɑpjələr ˈmjuzɪk ˈʤɛnər/
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género musical popular
- The festival will showcase various popular music genres that are trending this summer.
Examples
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She enjoys listening to different popular music genres, from hip-hop to indie rock.
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The meaning of each popular music genre depends greatly on the social origins of the genre and its constituency.
Academic text (1993) -
Many teenagers today are drawn to popular music genres that reflect their experiences and interests.
Antonyms
How Popular
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining popular (widely liked) + music (organized sound) + genre (a category or style); the phrase simply denotes a music style with broad appeal. This is a straightforward compositional adjective+noun+noun construction common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Popular music genre comes from two simple ideas: popular means 'liked by many people' and genre means a 'type' or 'kind'. So the phrase points to a type of music many people like, often for a certain time.