In
North America and
Europe the decade was particularly revolutionary in terms of
popular music, as it saw the evolution of
rock. At the beginning of the 1960s,
pop and
rock and roll trends of the 1950s continued; nevertheless, the rock and roll of the decade before started to merge into a more international, eclectic variant known as rock. In the early-1960s, rock and roll in its purest form was gradually overtaken by
pop rock,
beat,
psychedelic rock,
blues rock, and
folk rock, which had grown in popularity. The
country- and
folk-influenced style
[1]associated with the latter half of 1960s rock music spawned a generation of popular
singersongwriters who wrote and performed their own work. Towards the decade's end, genres such as
Baroque pop,
[2] sunshine pop,
[3] bubblegum pop,
[4] and
progressive rock started to grow popular, with the latter two finding greater success in the following decade. Furthermore, the 1960s saw
funk and
soul music rising in popularity;
rhythm and blues in general remained popular, and this style was commonly associated with
Girl groups of the time, whose fusion of R&B and
Gospel with rock and roll enjoyed success until the mid-part of the decade.
[5] Aside from the popularity of rock and R&B music in the 1960s,
Latin American as well as
Jamaican and
Cuban music achieved a degree of popularity throughout the decade, with genres such as
Bossa nova, the
cha-cha-cha,
[6] ska,
[7] and
calypso being popular. From a
classical point of view, the 1960s were also an important decade as they saw the development of
electronic,
experimental,
jazz and
contemporary classical music, notably
minimalism and
free improvisation.
[8]
In
Asia, various trends marked the popular music of the 1960s. In
Japan, the decade saw the rise in popularity of several Western popular music groups such as
The Beatles. The success of rock music and bands in the Japan started a new generation, known as
Group Sounds, which was popular in the latter half of the decade.
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