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Many new styles of popular music have emerged since rock 'n' roll burst onto the scene in the 1950s. Rock 'n' roll had a huge cultural impact that united teenagers in the 1950s. In today's world ...

Americans are divided on whether U.S. culture and way of life was better in the 1950s, with white Christians more likely to ...

There were three main musical styles that influenced reggae. This style of Jamaican folk music was popular in the 1950s. Like calypso it is strophic in form and has light-hearted lyrics ...

While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal ... Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre from ...

“I think listening to [music] on your own is amazing,” says Free Oribhabor ... At some jazz kissas, which have been popular in Japan since the 1950s, talking is prohibited at certain times. In recent ...

There was little Jones did not do in a music career of more than 65 years. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, composer ...

Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

George Harris, one of the brains behind the exhibition, said the idea was inspired by the jukebox revolution A quirky arts project featuring music and memories from the 1950s and 60s has launched ...

I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. China is finally coming to the end of the 1950s, meaning the end of what America saw in the 1950s: An unprecedented economic boom ...