She paved the way for African Americans in mainstream theatre and popularized syncopated dance and song.
Although salsa as a specific genre is rooted in the Cuban son music, the term has often been applied generically to a wide variety of popularized Latin dance forms, such as those performed by Puente.
Aug. 4: Kassav' is the Paris-based band that popularized zouk, a hybrid of Caribbean dance music, funk, and French pop.
A Norfolk Tides equipment manager was swaying side to side, bouncing on the balls of his feet, and carrying out each step of the Soulja Boy dance as the hip-hop song that popularized it boomed in the background.
Alongside the rather sporadic success of popularized Anglo folk music came a series of Latin dance fads, including mambo, rumba, chachachá and boogaloo.
The trio of producers and DJ's popularized "bro haus," the hard thumping, entirely predictable flavor of dance music that has enveloped previously nuanced artists like Calvin Harris and brought them into the world of "We Found Love" pop.
The objects, mostly produced in the early 1900s, when the art form was first popularized in America, document how Americans have imported and adapted Middle Eastern and North African dance traditions.
Guetta saw the collaborative Grammys performance not as a hat-tip to an isolated sound, but a long-due recognition that younger audiences pay less attention to genre today, a movement reflected in dance music's inherent inclusiveness and sonic possibilities (this is the cuture that popularized the remix, after all).
And it's popularized "binge viewing".
… It's become popularized in recent years.
Though popularized by Duke Ellington, it was written by Billy Strayhorn.
