Popular Genres of Music In Captioned Pop music is a genre of popular music Which originated in its modern form in 1950 , deriving from rock & roll . The terms popular music & Pop music are often used interchangeably even though the former is a description of music . Rock music is a genre of popular that originated as rock & roll in U.K. at 1950. It's self heavily influenced by rhythm & blues & country . Sufi music is devotional music of Sufi's inspired by works of Sufi poet's , like Rumi , Hafiz , Bulleh . Sufi love song are often performance as Ghazals & Kafi , a solo genre accommodation by percussion & harmonium using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poet's .