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hall sprang up to cater for the entertainment of new urban societies, adapting
existing forms of music to produce popular songs and acts. In the 1930s the
influence of American Jazz led to the creation of British dance bands, who
provided a social and popular music that began to dominate social occasions
and the radio airwaves.
1950s
By 1950 indigenous forms of British popular music were already giving
way
to
the
influence
of
American
forms
of
music
including jazz, swingand traditional pop, mediated through film and records.
The significant change of the mid-1950s was the impact of American rock
and roll, which provided a new model for performance and recording, based
on a youth market. Initially this was dominated by American acts, or re-
creations of American forms of music, but soon distinctly British forms began
to appear, first in the uniquely British take on American folk music in
the Skiffle craze of the 1950s, in the beginnings of a folk revival that came to
place an emphasis on national traditions and then in early attempts to
produce British rock and roll.
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