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beat music

beat music

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A style of pop rock from 1960s Britain with strong rhythms and simple melodies
  • noun
  • /biːt ˈmjuːzɪk/
  • Archaic
translation icon : música beat

Examples

  • (tense beat music)

    Sledgehammer (1983)

  • [up-beat music plays]

    Paddington (2014)

  • As if a disco's door had busted open, loud beat music exploded, blowing Oman's idle mind away.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Last night, the party was full of energy with the catchy beat music playing all night long.

  • The concert featured a lively mix of beat music that had everyone dancing.

  • Many young people enjoy listening to beat music because of its strong rhythms and simple melodies.

Surface Forms

beat music singular
beat musics plural

Morphology

beat + music

The phrase is compositionally built from 'beat' (a regular rhythm) + 'music', so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it means music characterized by a strong rhythm; the label is a straightforward genre description rather than an opaque idiom. While learners may not know the historical UK origin or specific subgenre details, the core meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

The noun beat music comes from the strong beat, the steady 'rhythm', in songs by early 1960s British bands like those from Liverpool. So the name means music with a clear rhythm and simple melodies.