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1960s in music
- ReggaeIn 1968, a single by Toots and the Maytals titled Do the Reggay became the first popular song to use the word reggae. This track effectively named the genre…
- HippieThe word hippie emerged from the jazz slang of 1940s Harlem, where musicians used terms like hip and hep to describe someone who was sophisticated or…
- Hard rockHard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music. The electric guitar is often emphasised and used with distortion and other effects.
- FunkThe word funk initially referred to a strong odor. It is originally derived from Latin via Old French, and in this sense it was first documented in English…
- Cultural impact of the BeatlesIn late 1963, the British press coined the term Beatlemania to describe a phenomenon that had never been seen before. The word first appeared widely after…
- BeatlemaniaThe word Beatlemania first appeared in print on the 21st of October 1963, when the Daily Mail published a feature story by Vincent Mulchrone.
- Beat musicThe term beat music emerged from the fading waves of late 1950s rock and roll. Ernest Borneman, a German anthropologist living in England between 1933 and…
- Country musicIn the early 1920s, a young fiddler named Henry Gilliland stood in a small studio in Bristol, Tennessee. He held his instrument tight as he prepared to…
- British InvasionIn the late 1950s, American rock and blues musicians became popular with British youth. This rebellious tone and image sparked a cultural shift across the…
- The Beatles AnthologyThe Beatles Anthology arrived as a massive multimedia retrospective project in 1995. It combined a television documentary, four volumes of double albums, and…
- J-popIn 1958, forty-five thousand people crammed into the Nichigeki Western Carnival to see Japanese singers perform rockabilly music.
- Pop musicThe term pop music first appeared in print during 1926 to describe a piece of music having popular appeal. This usage emerged alongside the industrialization…