Pop music (pop music, a term that derives from the abbreviation of “popular”) is a genre of popular music that originated during the 1950s in the United States and United Kingdom. It is generally seen as synonymous with “popular music,” although this term is used for all musical styles that arise in the people, as opposed to classical music, made by an intellectual class.
Rock is a broad term that defines a musical genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1950s. Its roots lie in rock and roll and rockabilly that emerged and defined in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which in turn evolved from blues, country music and rhythm and blues. Other musical influences on rock still include folk, jazz and classical music. All these influences were combined into a simple musical structure based on blues that was “fast, danceable and sticky.” [2]
K-pop (short for Korean pop or Korean popular music) [1] hangul: 케이팝; rr: kei-pap [1]) is a musical genre originated in South Korea, characterized by a wide variety audiovisual elements. Although it designates all genres of “popular music” within South Korea, the term is more often used in a more restricted sense, to describe a modern form of South Korean pop music, which encompasses styles and genres incorporated from the West as pop , rock, jazz, hip hop, R & B, reggae, folk, country, in addition to their traditional roots of Korean music. The genre came out with Seo Taiji and Boys, one of the first K-pop groups and formed in 1992. Their experimentation with different styles of music “reshaped the South Korean music scene.” [3] As a result, the integration of foreign musical elements has become a common practice for today’s K-pop artists. [4]
Funk [fânc] is a musical genre that originated in Afro-American communities in the mid-1960s] when African-American musicians created a new form of rhythmic and dance music through the blend of soul, jazz and rhythm and blues .