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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 ...

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 narratives more usually ...

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