| rhythm and blues (R&B) | Broadly, black popular music of the 1950s. More specifically, a black popular style in quadruple meter, with strong backbeats and a danceable tempo.
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| doo-wop | The name given to background vocal ensembles accompanying Motown singers, often by singing neutral or nonsense syllables.
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| rock and roll | A popular music of the mid-1950s to mid-1960s combining characteristics of rhythm and blues and country-western music.
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| rockabilly | A close amalgamation of country music and rock and roll.
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| payola | The acceptance by disc jockeys of money and gifts in return for plugging recordings.
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| surfing songs | Songs by the Beach Boys and other groups reflecting the easy California lifestyle.
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| Motown | Ahighly successful black company that recorded, published, and sponsored black popular music.
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| soul | A fervent, emotional black style rooted in gospel and the blues.
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| funk | Rock music rooted in soul but with lyrics expressing interracial concerns.
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| rock | A collective term encompassing many styles of popular music that evolved from and succeeded rock and roll.
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| folk rock | The addition of light rock effects to urban folk music.
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| acid rock | Sometimes called psychedelic rock. Music that attempts to evoke the sensations experienced by a person under the influence of LSD.
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| heavy metal | A rock style, extremely loud and often electronically distorted, introduced by Jimi Hendrix.
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