Description of mop music.

The music style of pop was based on the foundation of many genres, including country, rock and roll, jazz, folk, disco, and soul. Pop is very often referred to as dance, rhythm, and instrumental and vocal music, which uses sounds, melodies, and beats that are trendy in a certain period. The most commonly used instruments are guitar, drums, and keyboards.

Pop music performers create fairly mellow pieces that can appeal to the largest group of listeners. It often happens that their songs, are distinguished not only by a beautiful soundtrack, but also by a very high level of lyrics.

Subgenres and Musical Styles

Pop music can be divided into many subgenres and musical styles. The main ones are:

• Dance-pop – a combination of pop melodies with fast and lively beats.
  Synth-pop – a sub-genre in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument.
• Pop-punk – is more melodic in comparison with heavy punk music.
• Pop rock – a combination of melodic characteristic of pop music, with a strong sound of guitars and drums. It is one of the most popular subgenres of pop music.
• Pop rap – combines rap reading with sung choruses borrowed from pop music.

Also distinguish styles such as avant-garde, brit-pop, Dream-pop, power-pop, twee-pop and many, many others.

Almost every country has developed its own version of pop music. The most famous are:

• C-pop, Chinese pop with subgenres: cantopop (Korean pop music) and mandopop (mandarin pop). Li Jinhua and Buck Clayton are considered the creators of Chinese pop music.
• J-pop is Japanese pop music. However, this name often means not only pop songs, but also rock or soul.
• Latin Pop – this is the most common name for Portuguese or Spanish pop music. It is characterized by a mixture of traditional elements of regional music (such as flamenco) with pop music. Works are always performed in Spanish or Portuguese.
• K-pop – originated in South Korea and has absorbed the elements of Western electropop, hip-hop, dance music and modern rhythm and blues.

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