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1 day ago · The formative years: the late 1950s through the ’60s. The roots of nueva canción trace to the late 1950s and early ’60s, a notably restive era in Latin American history. Many countries were saddled with ineffective or authoritarian governments, and the gap between the wealthy and the impoverished was widening.
3 days ago · The popularity of his videos on MTV helped the relatively new channel's viewing figures, and MTV's focus shifted toward pop and R&B. His performance on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever changed the scope of live stage shows, making it acceptable for artists to lip-sync to music video on stage.
1 day ago · The article explores the major pop music shifts and cultural changes that occurred in years ending in 4 (particularly during even-numbered decades). From the 1964 arrival of the Beatles in the U.S. to the explosion of Motown, and from Thriller, Born in the USA, and Purple Rain in 1984 to the rise of digital downloads and the dominance of American acts on the charts in 2004, particularly in the ...
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4 days ago · Apr. 10, 2024, 5:08 AM ET (MSN) Punk rock flea market draws alternative music, culture fans. alternative rock, pop music style, built on distorted guitars and rooted in generational discontent, that dominated and changed rock between 1991 and 1996.
1 day ago · Since the 2010s, rock has lost its position as the pre-eminent popular music genre in world culture, but remains commercially successful. The increased influence of hip-hop and electronic dance music can be seen in rock music, notably in the techno-pop scene of the early 2010s and the pop-punk-hip-hop revival of the 2020s.
- 1950s and 1960s, US and UK
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I’ve always been very much into rock - Ever since I got an interest in music in my pre-teen years. Besides the usual euro-dance and techno hits of the 90’s MTV-era, I first encountered electronic music via. The Knife. I learned about them, because I got more and more interested in quircky indie stuff.
5 days ago · rhythm and blues, term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music, as well as for some white rock music derived from it. The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, when he was editing the charts at the trade journal Billboard and found that the record companies issuing Black popular music considered the chart names then in use (Harlem Hit Parade, Sepia, Race) to be ...
