Day 40 Flashcards

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rock

a form of popular music that evolved from rock and roll and pop music during the mid and late 1960s.

A

I love Rock and Roll

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pop
a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

A

Taylor Swift makes Pop music

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rap
also known as rap music, is a genre of popular music developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans and Latino Americans in the Bronx borough of New York City in the 1970s.

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Rap music was the gateway for other genres of music to flourish

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jazz
a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century.

A

Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz

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blues

melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence

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Blues developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s, as black American people migrated to the cities

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heavy metal
a type of highly amplified harsh-sounding rock music with a strong beat, characteristically using violent or fantastic imagery.

A

heavy metal is arguably the most commercially successful genre of rock music.

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dance

move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps.

A

“their cheeks were pressed together as they danced”

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video game
a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen.

A

Tell your kids to put down the video games and go play outside

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trailer

advertise (a movie or program) in advance by broadcasting excerpts or details.

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“the series has already been heavily trailered”

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previews

an inspection or viewing of something before it is bought or becomes generally known and available.

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“you can get a sneak preview of the pictures on sale”

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ratings
a classification or ranking of someone or something based on a comparative assessment of their quality, standard, or performance.

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“the hotel regained its five-star rating”

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video streaming
multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements

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We can video stream on YouTube.

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