Europop

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Camp. Trashy. Lightweight. Throwaway. Exploitative. Fraudulent. Europop has drawn all those insults and more, and remains, after 30 years, most popular among those with a love of kitsch. Nevertheless, the danceable pop of early 1970s mainland Europe has had an enormous influence on manufactured pop, as well as all house and disco-derived dance music. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, America and Britain dominated global pop trends. Although Europe had already delivered ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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