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1970s in music
- 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…
- DiscoIn the late 1960s, a new sound emerged from the urban nightlife of New York City and Philadelphia. This music grew from African-American, Latino…
- Punk rockThe Kingsmen released "Louie, Louie" in 1963, a song that later became known as punk rock's defining ur-text. This garage band from Portland, Oregon, played…
- New wave musicSeymour Stein launched a campaign in October 1977 to replace the word punk with new wave. He was the founder of Sire Records and believed that calling bands…
- 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…
- Heavy metal musicIn 1968, three British bands named Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple formed to create a sound that would define a new genre.
- 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…
- 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…
- J-popIn 1958, forty-five thousand people crammed into the Nichigeki Western Carnival to see Japanese singers perform rockabilly music.