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• Styles & Forms
• Europop
• Pop

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 ...

• Pop

City Rollers in the 1970s, Wham! and New Kids On The Block in the 1980s and Hanson and The Spice Girls in the 1990s, to the catchy Europop sounds of ABBA, the homogenous, production-line-type output of British songwriting/production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman, the slick recordings of new romantics such as Duran Duran, ...

• Styles & Forms
• Eighties Manufactured Pop
• Eighties Pop
• Pop

in the late 1980s, writing and producing a string of bouncy, unashamedly lightweight hits for Brits Rick Astley, Bananarama, Mel & Kim, Sonia, original Europop diva Donna Summer and, most famously, Australian soap opera stars Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan. As important as the impossibly catchy music and clean-cut appeal of the stars ...

• Styles & Forms
• Northern Soul
• Soul & R&B

mix. By the late-1970s, the Casino, Mecca and Twisted Wheel had closed down, and northern DJs such as Levine and Pete Waterman began mixing light soul with Europop, creating the gay disco of Hi-NRG and having a profound influence over all subsequent forms of British manufactured pop. Nevertheless, northern soul refused (and still refuses) to die ...

• Styles & Forms
• Pop
• Seventies Pop
• Seventies Pop Singer-Songwriters

to play several parts at once; they became more sophisticated and less reliant on sheer energy to carry them across to the listener. Introduction | Pop Styles & Forms | Europop ...