Brill Building Pop refers to a style of Pop music that began in the late 1950s. The name Brill Building comes from a block of music publishing houses in New York City, where teams of professional writers worked to create the music, however, music in this style emanated from other places as well. It had a variety of influences including Rock & Roll, Rhythm & Blues and Tin Pan Alley pop, however, it was far more sophisticated and polished, as it often featured orchestras and large accompanying bands. Many of the most successful acts in this genre were teams of a singer and a producer. Brill Building fell out of favor when the British Invasion began, but it continues to influence popular music to this day.
Bubblegum is a subgenre of Pop known for its upbeat, catchy simplicity in both lyrical and musical content. So named for the target audience of children and young teens, Bubblegum featured a concoction of sing-along choruses with simple verses and a repetitive melodic structure. Bubblegum songs were generally carefully crafted for the express purpose of high commercial viablity, and performed by studio musicians. The tracks were often credited to an actual band, who may or may not have had much to do with the song itself. Good examples of Bubblegum bands would be The Monkees, The Partridge Family, and The Archies.
华语流行音乐，指现代标准汉语的流行音乐，为中文流行音乐的子类别之一，也是以中文为载体的流行音乐中第一个成形的子类别。其起源于二十世纪的上海。目前主要流行于中国大陆、台湾、香港、澳门、马来西亚、新加坡等华人地区。
A Scandinavian/Nordic form of entertainment music, growing out of the pop/rock explosion of the 1960s, and incorporating swing, schlagers, bland rock music, and sometimes light country music into the repertoire. In its early days, dansbandsmusik (tr. Dance Band Music) also made use of dance-friendly rock and roll standards. Its primary function is musical accompaniment to dancing, primarily for an audience not that much familiar with the more challenging aspects of rock, jazz, classical, etc. Still, the genre also works as listening music in its own right. Arrangement-wise, dance bands have to a certain degree given priority to vocals, keyboards, and saxophone. Guitar, although usually being played by vocalists, has had a rhythmic and harmonic, rather than melodic function, guitar soloing as such never opting for the spotlight. The genre had its heyday in the 1970s, and almost without exception, part and parcel of the dance band style was being dressed in identical, colorful, and glitzy suits. As for venues, dance bands have mostly performed in parks, hotels, at nightclubs, on ferries, and the like, performance patterns having changed only slightly since the early 1960s.
Middle Eastern flavoured Israeli popular music, usually performed by Mizrahi Jews, and hence combining aspects of the music of the North African, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian countries they descended from.
Starting the early 1980s, the Nederpop term was introduced as successor of the Nederbeat to name the growth of Dutch language pop music from the Netherlands. The revived meaning came about because of the huge success of bands like Doe Maar. After Doe Maar this special genre with Ska and reggae rhythms was up till now followed by many other Dutch artists (latest: Ed Citroen, Kaas)
Nordic Old Time Dances is a meta-genre strongly related to Nordic Folk Music. However, its less complex structures, easy rhythms and melody lines make it as much a form of Pop Music. As the name reveals, the music is utilitarian, catering to a dancing crowd. Old Time Dances counts a variety of dances -- and accordingly a variety of musical styles, although the arrangements are similar. Prominent among instruments are the accordion and the fiddle. As for various dances and subgenres, Sweden and Denmark have: Schottis, Snoa, Vals, Mazurka, Hambo. Norway has Reinlender, Hoppvals, Vals, Mazurka, and Pols. Finland has Jenkka, Humppa, Valssi, Masurkka, and Polska.
Palingpop originates from Volendam (The Netherlands). It is a genre with its own characteristic sound, recognizable for its typical (close) harmony vocals and easy listening tunes, wrapped up in a mix of Country music and Southern European Folk music, often with bombastic orchestration.
Most well-known artists of this genre are The Cats, George Baker Selection, Left Side, BZN.
Russian pop music inspired by crime and prison.
A style of Pop that originated in the 1980s and is mainly defined by the influence of Jazz and Soul and its slick, smooth production.
Space Age Pop, aka bachelor pad music, was inspired by the optimism of the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s and its excitement about mankind's space exploration. Space Age Pop is especially related to Lounge music, and could be seen as a precursor to the musical genre of space music.
The music varies in style, rhythm and arrangement, but shares enough similarities. Space Age Pop often uses a string orchestra (or simulated strings) to apply warmth and color to the sound, combined with a Latin percussion section. Keyboard instruments (both traditional ones, and later also electronic) are frequently used, as well as the theremin for its eerie out-of-this-world sound. The arrangements often convey a sense of humor, placing it in close relation to later futurist or space-themed novelty music - a closeness furthered by the album cover artwork often displaying space or modernist themes.
During the early 1990s, Space Age Pop, largely forgotten after 1965, regained some of its popularity.
Pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant instrument.
