Styles of Popular Music

Outline: Styles of Popular Music

Introduction:
Thesis Statement: Three of the more successful styles are reggae, punk, and rap.
Body:
A. One successful style of popular music is reggae.
1. Born on the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the 1960s.
a. spread throughout the world in the 1970s.
2. Deleloped from mento.
a. Mento was sung and played on guitars and drums.
b. Some musicians changed mento into a music style called ska by adding a hesitation beat.

A few years later, other musicians changed ska, and reggae was born.
3. Special sound comes from reversing the roles of the instruments.
a. Guitar
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Conclusion: To sum up, popular music changes constantly.