diverse and creative sub-genres that characterised the form throughout the rest
of the twentieth century.
1970s
In the 1970s British musicians played a major part in developing the
new forms of music that had emerged from blues rock towards the end of the
1960s, including folk rock and psychedelic rock.
Several important and
influential sub-genres were created in Britain in this period, by pursuing the
possibilities of rock music, including electric folk and glam rock,
a process
that reached its apogee in the development of progressive rock and one of the
most enduring sub-genres in heavy metal music.
While jazz began to suffer a
decline in popularity in this period, Britain began to be increasingly
influenced by aspects of World music, including Jamaican music, resulting in
new music scenes and sub-genres.
In the middle years of the decade the
influence of the pub rock and American punk
rock movements led to the
British intensification of punk, which swept away much of the existing
landscape of popular music, replacing it with much more diverse new
wave and post punk bands who mixed different forms of music and influences
to dominate rock and pop music into the 1980s.
1980s
Rock and pop music in the 1980s built
on the post-punk and new
wave movements, incorporating different sources of inspiration from sub-
genres and what is now classed as World music in the shape
of Jamaican and Indian music, as did British Jazz, as a series of black British
musicians came to prominence, creating new fusions like Acid Jazz.
It also
explored the consequences of new technology
and social change in
the electronic music of synthpop. In the early years of the decade, while sub-
genres like heavy metal music continued to develop separately, there was a
considerable crossover between rock and more commercial popular music,
with a large number of more "serious" bands, like The Police and UB40,
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enjoying considerable single chart success.
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The advent of MTV and cable
video helped spur what has been seen as a Second
British Invasion in the
early years of the decade, with British bands enjoying more success in
America than they had since the height of The Beatles' popularity in the
1960s. However, by the end of the decade there was a fragmentation, with
many new forms
of music and sub-cultures, including Hip Hop and House
music, while the single charts were once again dominated by pop artists, now
often associated with the Hi-NRG hit factory of Stock Aitken Waterman. The
rise of the Indie rock scene was partly a response to this, and marked a shift
away from the major music labels and towards the importance of local scenes
like Madchester and sub-genres, like gothic rock.
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