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POP MUSIC

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When did pop music originate?
A
mid 1950’s
B
1950’s
C
1800’s
D
mid 1800’s
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Classic pop. Popular music, or “classic pop, ‘’ dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s. Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pop Music in the 1950s to 1960s The genre incorporated shouts, chants, work songs and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues genre is easily recognisable by the call-and-response pattern. The twelve-bar blues is the most common blues scale and specific chord progression.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the early 1950’s the American Popular Music Charts are dominated by the remnants of the big band era including vocalists such as Doris Day, Frankie Lane, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Nat King Cole, along with band leaders Mitch Miller, Percy Faith and others.

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