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Pop music genres

  • Psychedelic musicIn 1964, the New York folk group The Holy Modal Rounders used the word psychedelic on a recording of Lead Belly's Hesitation Blues.
  • HyperpopIn 2013, A. G. Cook launched the record label and art collective known as PC Music in London. This small group of artists laid the groundwork for what would…
  • Russian popThe song Lavender by Sofia Rotaru emerged in the mid-1970s as a defining track of Soviet variety music. This era established pop idols like Alla Pugacheva…
  • 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…