Style of Popular Muisc

Style of Popular Music
Introduction
There are many kinds of style in music.
Thesis statement
Three of the more successful styles are reggae, punk, and rap.
Body
A.
Topic
One successhul style of popular music is reggae, which was born on the Caribbean islandof Jamaica in the1960s and spread throughout the world in the 1970s.
Support 1
Some musicains chamged mento into a music style called ska by adding a hesitation beat.
Support 2
Reggae's special sound comes from reversing the roles of the instruments: The guitar palys the rhythm, and the bass palys the melodys.
Support 3
The best-known reggae musician was the late Bob Marley.
Concluding
Reggae has influenced later styles of popular music, including punk and rap.
B.
Topic
A second successful style of popular music is punk.
Support 1
Punk is a style of rock music that began in the mid-1970s as a reaction aganist previous forms of rock.
Support 2
Punk music itself is simple (often just three chords), and its songs are short (rarely more than three minutes long.
Support 3
Its songs are anti-govement, anti-authority, and anti-conformity.
Concluding
Pop punk, made popular by the group Green Day, is another new punk style.
C.
Topic
A thrird successful style of popular music is rap, which is also called hip-hop.
Support 1
Rap is a style of dance music in which the singers--rappers --speak in rhythm and rhyme rather than sing.
Support 2
In the Unites States, rap first appeared in the mid-1970s in the disco of New York City's black neighborhoods.
Support 3
AT frist, the role of the rapper was to keep the beat going with hand claps while the DJ changed records. Soon, rappers added lyrics, slogan, rhymes, and call-and-response exchanges with the audience, and rap was born.
Concluding
Most rappers are young balck males, but there have been female rappers such as Queen Latifah and white rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Eminem.
Cincluding
To sum up, popular music changes constantly.