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Popular culture
The vernacular or people's culture that prevails in a modern society.
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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 was questioned by ...
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 narratives more usually ...
