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Europe, popular music, European music, history of music

European popular music started with anacreontics and wine, women and song. It is closely linked with the history of poetry.

Contents 1 Antiquity 2 Middle Ages 3 18th century 4 19th century 5 20th century 6 Post WWII 7 By region 8 Problems of defintion 9 See also

Antiquity

Music in antiquity

Middle Ages

Medieval music, troubadour

18th century

18th century music, Vaudeville (song)

19th century

19th century music, music hall, cabaret, café-chantant, salon music, bal-musette

20th century

20th century music

Post WWII

Post WWII

Europe has imported many different genres of music, mainly American popular music, ranging from Blues, Jazz, Soul, Pop, Rap, Hip-Hop, R'n'B, Dance, etc. UK has been most successful in re-exporting this type of music and creating many of its own genres with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Sex Pistols, Eric Clapton, The Clash, Van Morrison, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, The Who, Eurythmics, Dusty Springfield, The Cure, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Duran Duran, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Oasis, Coldplay, The Police, Robbie Williams, Bee Gees, Spice Girls, UB40 and Amy Winehouse.

By region

Other European popular musicians are U2 (Ireland), ABBA (Sweden), a-ha (Norway), Andrea Bocelli (Italy), Julio Iglesias (Spain), Nana Mouskouri (Greece/France), Boney M. (Germany), Charles Aznavour (France), Johnny Hallyday (France), Modern Talking (Germany), Scorpions (Germany), Rammstein (Germany) Ace of Base (Sweden), Enya (Ireland), James Last (Germany), Doda (Poland), Jean Michel Jarre (France), Roxette (Sweden)... The Eurovision Song Contest. Main festivals : Glastonbury (UK), Wacken (Germany), Benicassim (Spain), Roskilde (Denmark). EMI is the largest European music company.

Problems of defintion

Please compare

• "European popular music", only 2,510 found at Google, and number one on the list is parlor music
• "American popular music""American popular music", about 227,000 for "American popular music"

If European popular music exists, it is not defined.

See also

• European Hot 100 Singles
• European music
• Euro disco
• European popular film
• European folk music
• French popular music
• Italian popular music