Beat
Related: Afrobeat - breaks - brokenbeats - Beat Generation (literary movement) - dance - drums - groove - new beat - rhythm - riddims
It's the beat, the beat, the beat that makes you want to rock. -- Jazzy Rhythms, Michelle Wallace
Beat (music)
for DJs: The beat can also mean solely the bass and snare drums of the rhythm. The DJs often beatmatch the songs that they play.
in music theory: Beat is any of the periodic transient signals in music that mark the rhythm.
as a musical genre: Beat style played in the 1960s
as a literatary genre: Beat is a genre of literature written by beatniks. See: Beat Generation. --http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat