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Pioneering and developments
Modern British popular
music
…
Britain has influenced popular music
disproportionately to its size, due to its
linguistic and cultural links with many
countries, particularly the United States
and many of its former colonies like
Australia, South Africa, and Canada, and
its capacity for invention, innovation and
fusion, which has led to the development
of, or participation in, many of the major
trends in popular music.
[29]
Forms of
The Beatles
, the most successful musical act in
popular music
history.
popular music, including folk music, jazz,
rapping/hip hop, pop and rock music, have
particularly flourished in Britain since the
twentieth century.
In the early-20th century, influences from
the United States became most dominant
in popular music, with young performers
producing their own versions of American
music, including rock n' roll from the late
1950s and developing a parallel music
scene. During the early 1960s, the British
Invasion, led by The Beatles, helped to
secure British performers a major place in
development of pop and rock music.
According to the website of The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the
term "pop music" "originated in Britain in
the mid-1950s as a description for rock
and roll and the new youth music styles
that it influenced".
[30]
The Oxford Dictionary
of Music states that while pop's "earlier
meaning meant concerts appealing to a
wide audience [...] since the late 1950s,
however, pop has had the special meaning
of non-classical mus[ic], usually in the
form of songs, performed by such artists
as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, ABBA
[a Swedish act], etc."
[31]
Since then, rock
music and popular music contributed to a
British-American collaboration, with trans-
Atlantic genres being exchanged and
exported to one another, where they
tended to be adapted and turned into new
movements.
Britain's most significant contribution to
popular music during the 20th century was
towards the expansion of rock music.
Progressive rock was predicated on the
"progressive" pop groups from the 1960s
David Bowie
was dubbed the "Greatest Rock Star
Ever" in
Rolling Stone
magazine.
[32]
who combined rock and roll with various
other music styles such as Indian ragas,
oriental melodies and Gregorian chants,
like the Beatles and the Yardbirds.
[2]
According to AllMusic, the emergence of
psychedelic rock in the mid-1960s resulted
from British bands who made up the
British Invasion of the US market.
[33]
Many
of the top British bands during the 1960s
experienced art school during their
youth,
[34]
and espoused an approach
based on art and originality—which came
to create art rock.
[4]
As a diverging act to
the popular pop rock of the early 1960s,
the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty,
heavier-driven sound that came to define
hard rock.
[35]
Heavy metal was created by
British musicians, including acts like Black
Sabbath and Deep Purple.
[36]
Glam rock,
which was developed in the United
Kingdom in the early 1970s, was
performed by musicians who wore
outrageous costumes, makeup, and
hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and
glitter—this is widely associated with
David Bowie.
[37]
Rolling Stone argued that
the Sex Pistols, a prominent punk rock
band, came to spark and personify one of
the few truly critical moments in pop
culture—the rise of punk during the
1970s.
[38]
Music historian Vernon Joynson
claimed that new wave emerged in the UK
in late 1976, when many bands began
disassociating themselves from punk.
[39]
Gothic rock emerged from post-punk in the
United Kingdom in the late 1970s by bands
including Siouxsie and the Banshees,
[40]
Joy Division,
[41][40][42]
Bauhaus,
[41]
and the
Cure.
[40]
Other subgenres of rock invented
by or radically changed by British acts
include blues rock, ska, British folk rock,
folk punk, shoegaze, Britpop, and
industrial.
In addition advancing the scope of rock
music, British acts developed neo soul and
created acid jazz and the electronic
subgenres trip hop and dubstep.
[43][44][45]
Whilst disco is an American form of music,
British pop group Bee Gees were the most
prominent performers of the disco music
era in the mid-to-late 1970s, and came be
to known as the "Kings of Disco" by media
outlets.
[46]
Highlighting the influence of
immigrants in the United Kingdom during
the 21st century, British African-Caribbean
people created drum and bass, grime, and
afroswing. In addition, British Asians have
popularised Bhangra within the South
Asian diaspora.
Culture of the United Kingdom
See also
List of music festivals in the United
Kingdom
1. Ira A. Robbins. "Encyclopædia
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