Meaning
歌謡曲 (かようきょく, kayoukyoku) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “popular song”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 11
父は歌謡曲のレコードをたくさん持っている
My father has a lot of pop records.
歌謡曲は世相を反映する.
Popular songs reflect the social conditions (of the day).
私はカラオケで歌謡曲を歌います。
I will sing that popular song at karaoke.
作詞家と作曲家によって作られた歌謡曲は、結合著作物です。
A popular song created by a songwriter and a composer is a combined work.
童謡・唱歌には3/4今様、歌謡曲には5/4今様の形式も多い。
Not a few children's songs and songs for school music classes are imayo of three-four time, and not a few popular songs are imayo of five-four time.
岡本一平作詞（作詞著作権消滅）、飯田信夫作曲で、徳山璉が歌った歌謡曲の名前である。
It is a name of a pop song with lyrics written by Ippei OKAMOTO (out of copyright for the lyrics) and music by Nobuo IIDA, and sung by Tamaki TOKUYAMA.
（ワタナベエンターテインメント所属の歌手に代表される）洋楽指向の歌謡曲と人気を二分した。
It shared popularity with Western-oriented kayokyoku (as represented by singers belonging to Watanabe Entertainment).
.日本の歌謡曲（流行歌）の起源については、川上音二郎などの演説歌＝演歌とする説が有力である。
As for the origin of Japanese kayokyoku (popular songs), the leading theory is that it originated from enzetsu-ka (speech songs), i.e., enka, by Otojiro Kawakami and others.
とはいえ上記の特徴をもってしても、演歌とそれ以外のジャンル（歌謡曲など）を明確に分類することは難しい。
Even with the characteristics described above, however, it is difficult to clearly distinguish the enka from other genres (such as kayo kyoku - Japanese popular songs with ballads).
その後、カラオケボックスとなり、学生までその対象が広がると、歌謡曲やヒット曲、そして洋楽へと音源は広がった。
After that, when the karaoke box emerged and students were targeted, the music source range included popular songs, hit songs, and Western music.
収録曲は懐メロや歌謡曲、演歌など高年層好みが中心のものも多く、若年層が中心のJ-POPが少なめであったが、最近は増加傾向にある。
Many of them mainly contained 'natsumero' (nostalgic popular songs), popular songs, and enka favored by old generations and few of J-pops favored by young people, and J-pop songs are increasing recently.