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English styles of music

  • Trip hopIn the late 1980s, a group of DJs and MCs gathered on council estates in Bristol to play music for public spaces. They called their collective the Wild Bunch.
  • 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.
  • 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…