British popular music and popular music in general, can be defined in a number of ways, but is used here to describe music which is not part of the art/classical...

Early British popular music, in the sense of commercial music enjoyed by the people, can be seen to originate in the 16th and 17th centuries with the...

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed...

British Invasion, which derived from the British Invasion of the US in the 1960s, consisted of music acts from the United Kingdom that became popular...

British pop music is popular music, produced commercially in the United Kingdom. It emerged in the mid-to late 1950s as a softer alternative to American...

Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World...

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British form of American music, but it was the emergence of British rock and roll by the early 1960s that established a viable British popular music industry...

philosophy which defined British punk. When So It Goes concluded on Granada TV, Tony Wilson wanted to remain involved in the local music scene, so he started...

"gangs" in mid-1960s Britain, also had an impact in British Invasion music. Bands with a Mod aesthetic became the most popular, but bands able to balance...

Italian popular music refers to the musical output which is not usually considered academic or Classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions...

British rock describes a wide variety of forms of music made in the United Kingdom. Since around 1964, with the "British Invasion" of the United States...

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early...

Nordic popular music, also referred to as Scandinavian popular music, includes pop and rock music of the Nordic countries. The musical scene is known for...

American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive...

Pakistani popular music or shortly Pakistani pop music refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical...

Malaysian popular music, sometimes called shortly Malaysian pop (Malay: Pop Malaysia) or abbreviated as M-pop, refers to popular music forms in Malaysia...

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identities as British Indians. The British press sporadically became aware of trends in Punjabi music, especially with the rise of popular artists such...

is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements...

Popular music in Yugoslavia includes the pop and rock music of the former SFR Yugoslavia, including all their genres and subgenres. The scene included...

Birmingham's culture of popular music first developed in the mid-1950s. By the early 1960s the city's music scene had emerged as one of the largest and...

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War...

rise of British Popular Music from its roots in jazz to the present day. Highlights of some of the artefacts that can be found at the British Music Experience...

When describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and...

British soul, Brit soul, or (in a US context) the British soul invasion, is soul music performed by British artists. Soul has been a major influence on...

Music of the United Kingdom developed in the 1960s into one of the leading forms of popular music in the modern world. By the early 1960s the British...

The Second British Invasion was a sharp increase in the popularity of British synth-pop and new wave artists in the United States. It began in the summer...

While the sitar had earlier been used in jazz and Indian film music, it was from the 1960s onwards that various pop artists in the Western world began...

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It...