4. POP MUSIC

High school

50s style addressed to young people, very sweet, on the first love.

Surf

50s style born in California associated with this sport and its unworried way of life.

Doo wop

50s style featured by nonsense syllables sung in accompaniment.

Rock and roll

50s style that mixed black and white music such as rhythm & blues and country. It was a sociological phenomenon for young people that wanted to rebel.

Mod

60s British style born among unemployed young people with energetic rhythm, vocal ugliness, amplified sound and a violent and critical tone.

Nova cançó

60s Spanish style that dealt with committed issues.

Melodic song

60s Spanish style that emerged after the success of "La la la" by Massiel in Eurovision.

Folk rock

60s style born in 1965, when Bob Dylan electrified his music. It defended the happiness of living and new hopes.

Beat

60s style born in Liverpool with accents in the first part of each bar, happy tempo and catchy chorus.

Underground

60s style featured by a very simple music with dirty guitars, constant repetitions and recited lyrics.

Hard rock

60s style featured by thundering drums, saturated guitars with baroque picking and rough voices.

Psychedelic rock

60s style that included experimentation and Indian classical influence to replicate the experiences of hallucinogenic drugs.

Progressive rock

60s style that mixed jazz, folk and classical music in long songs with virtuoso improvisations, unusual effects and ambitious staging.

British rhythm and blues

60s style that retook blues in its pure state.

Folk and protest song

60s style that searched for the roots of the real American music to denounce the imperfections of the "American Way of Life" and political scandals.

Soul

60s style which was a means of expression of black population with social critical topics, whose songs became hymns of its struggle and identity.

New flamenco

70s Spanish style that mixed flamenco with other styles and was criticized by purists.

Andalusian rock

70s Spanish style that mixed progressive rock with native rhythms originating a genuine Spanish style.

Punk

70s style against the system with violent and simple performances, critical, insolent and radical attitudes.

Reggae

70s style born in Jamaica, along with Rastafari movement, featured by skank rhythm and lyrics about political issues and cannabis.

Electronic music

70s style featured by experimentation with technology, noise and classic avant-garde music.

Funk

70s style mixed soul and rhythm & blues influences with syncopated rhythm, lack of melody and energetic riffs.

Disco

70s style that was a social phenomenon that mixed different people on the dance floor. It was featured by the intensification of basses and drums.

Glam

70s style with brief simple songs, androgyny, theatricality, flamboyant clothes and makeup.

Heavy metal

70s style with powerful drums, repetitive guitar riffs, virtuoso solos, shouted voices and sinister satanic staging.

Movida

80s Spanish movement that comprised music, literature, film... and many other art forms. Music was influenced by punk and new wave.

Mainstream

80s commercial style enjoyed by parents and their children.

Electrofunk

80s style mixed funk and electronic music influences with synths, drum machines and elements of disco.

New wave

80s style with clean guitars, synths, new percussion instruments and lyrics about love and ecology.

Brit pop

90s British style featured by simple songs with catchy melodies and clean guitars.

Hardcore

90s style derived from punk with a very fast tempo and aggressive lyrics.

Grunge

90s style that mixed hard rock with punk expressing the anguish and existential depression of the X Generation.

New American rock

90s style that rediscovered the richness of traditional folk, psychedelic rock and country.

Noise

90s style that used the distortion as rule until creating a climax chaos and noise.

Hip hop

Style born in the late 70's in the suburbs of Bronx, expresed by graffiti, breakdance, DJ and MC.