Styles of Popular Music

I.Introduction
Thesis statement:Three of the more successful styles are reggae,punk,and rap.

II.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. Developed from mento.
a. Sung and played on guitars and drums.
b. Other musicians changed ska, and raggae was born.
3. Raggae's special sound comes from reversing the roles of the instruments.
a. Guitar plays rhythm and bass plays melody.
4. An important influence on raggae music was the Rastafarian cult.
Concluding sentence:Reggae has influenced later style of popular music,including punk and rap.
B.Topic sentence:A second successful style of popular music is punk.
Support:*Punk is a style of rock music that began in the mid-1970s as a reaction against previous forms of rock.
*With their clothing and hairstyles,punks intended to shock society.
Concluding sentence:As with all music styles,punk has evolved into other styles.
C.Topic sentence:A third successful style of popular music is rap,which is also called hip-hop.
Support:Rap is a type of dance music in which the singers-rappers-speak in rhythm and rhyme rather than sing.
Concluding sentence:Most rappers are young black males,but there have been female rappers such as Queen Latifah and white rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Eminem.

III.Conclusion
Popular music changes constantly;however,all contribute to the power and excitement of popular music in our time.