大学英语专业泛读专业辞汇

Hillbillies: the people who live in the Appalachian Mountains

Hillbilly music: the music which mixed British Isles’ folk music and the blues

Country music: It’s another name of hillbilly music when it becomes popular, and are often sad stories of love and broken hearts

Great Depression: the greatest economic crisis happen first in America during the 1930s

Folk songs: songs are like country songs but they are more traditional and more serious Woodie Guthrie: a folk song writer during the 1930s

We shall overcome: a name of an old folk song which the marchers sang for the purpose of changing the laws in the US

Bob Dylan: King of American folk music

Joan Baez: Queen of American folk music

American teenagers: a new group of people which had a new way of dressing, new hairstyle and new dances

R&B (rhythm and blues): a dance music with a good beat, also called popular black music

Rock and roll music: a music which had a strong dance beat and the musicians played electric guitars and were loud and fast

Sam Philips: the owner of Sun Record Company

Elvis Presley: the king of rock and roll

Popular black music: a music which has a strong beat for dancing

Soul music: it is the popular dance music called in the 1960s and was always dance music Disco: It is a kind of soul music often with Latin rhythms which was popular in the 1970s Michael Jackson: The king of pop

Whitney Houston: an American singer, actress, producer, and model. The most awarded female act and one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all time

Prince: an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor.

Tina Turner: a singer, dancer, actress, and author,

Aretha Franklin: an American singer and musician

Rap: a very skillful kind of fast street talk, with a strong rhythm

Rap music: a music which rap talking combined with music

Rock music: a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s

Punk or New Wave: a new kind of rock music which was loud and simple with a strong beat Walkman: something that people could take music with them in the 1970s and 1980s

MTV: a new TV station started in 1981

Heavy metal groups: a music team with their long hair and loud music

Live Aid: a video made by musicians to help solve world problems

Jazz: the music of the American Negro

Erotica: one symphony which Beethoven originally called the “Bonaparte” but later renamed when he withdrew the dedication to Napoleon

The ‘Fifth’: a symphony which was inspired by man’s struggle against fate

The ’Pastoral’: a symphony which has five rather than four movements

The ’Choral’: a symphony which uses a chorus in the last movement

‘Moonlight’, ‘Pathetique’, ‘Appassionata’: some of his 32 piano sonatas

Spirituals: religious songs which one line of musical development led to the creation of