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The 1950s music scene would challenge these simplistic categories by ... and influence of artists like Little Richard didn’t ...

foreshadowing the crossover success of many old country singers in the 1950s. Foley’s role as a host on the popular radio show Ozark Jubilee also helped bring country music to a wider audience.

But a lot of 1950s mainstream music enjoyed plenty of airplay not because it was particularly good or popular but simply because it was state-backed. In 1949, to promote the socialist-realist trend, ...

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 ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore ... Tracing both the emotional and stylistic developments of the genre from the 1950s to the ...

Second, the rise of rock ’n’ roll in the 1950s, with its energetic simplicity and appeal to youth culture, displaced jazz as the dominant form of popular music, offering a more direct and immediate ...

The 1950s music scene would challenge these simplistic ... like Little Richard didn’t come overnight, and even the most popular Black singers and musicians still had to deal with racism ...