Entertainment

Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining, especially that provided by performers.

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ragtime

Culture; Popular culture

Tightly composed piano jazz, which combined syncopation with march forms, dating from the late 19th century.

ratings

Culture; Popular culture

In television or radio, a system of measuring a program's success, which is based on assessing audience size.

realism

Culture; Popular culture

A 19th-century movement in the arts which strove to depict accurately the worlds it represented, and to show things as they actually existed. A1though the feasibility of this goal ...

retro-chic

Culture; Popular culture

The revival of fashions from an earlier era.

rhythm & blues

Culture; Popular culture

An up-tempo musical evolution from the blues, widely popular as dance music by the 1940s; bands usually featured a tenor saxophone;see also rock 'n' roll.

rock 'n' roll

Culture; Popular culture

Popular dance music originating in the 1950s as an offshoot of rhythm & blues; most pieces have a 12-bar blues structure, and a heavily accented rhythm.

romance

Culture; Popular culture

In popular culture, the representation of heterosexual love as the predominant subject matter. White popular music frequently depicts the failure of romantic love, romantic ...