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The Pop Core is a primer in all things popular culture. We live in a post modern, pastiche, self-referential culture. It is hard to listen to music, watch television or watch films without experiencing direct or indirect cultural references. Whether…
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50′s Early Rock
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It is hard to exaggerate the impact rock and roll has had on our culture. A combination of blues, jazz, gospel and country music, rock and roll was the perfect evolution of American modernism. Rock and roll wasn’t just about -
The Beatles
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The Beatles are the Mozart of popular music. It would be hard to argue for a more influential group or person in modern culture. Their music spans three decades evolving from tight rock and roll harmonic love songs to experimental -
60′s The British Invasion
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British youth who grew up in the 1950s listening to American rock and roll invaded the American music scene from the early to mid 1960s. Many of the key figures of the British invasion pointed to early American rock and -
60′s Surf Music
Surf music came out of Orange County California during the early 60s. What began as mostly instrumental dance music celebrating the surf culture that was popular in America at the time, surf music evolved into two distinct styles; the mostly…
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Late 70′s New Wave
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New wave is often confused with punk rock, even though they are two separate genres of music. After the punk rock explosion in the mid-70s, artists that held a similar anti-corporate ethos as punk rockers wanted to distinguish themselves with -
80′s Rap, Gold Chains and Sneakers
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By the mid-80s rap had entered what is often referred to as its “Golden Age”. With it came mainstream success for artists like LL. Cool J, Beastie Boys, and Run DMC, all of which were featured on -
80′s Metal Hair Bands
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The most popular rock music in the 1980s was called hard rock or heavy metal, sometimes referred to as glam rock or hair bands. This was the kind of music that you could bang your head to.
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90′s Grunge
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Grunge emerged in Seattle during the mid-1980s, and was noted for its stripped down sound and angst-driven lyrics. Although grunge was inspired by punk rock and heavy metal, it soon adopted its own look and style. Grunge musicians were known -
90′s Alt Country
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Although considered a sub-genre of traditional country music, alternative country began in the early 1990s as a melting pot of several styles of music, including punk, bluegrass, folk, even rock and roll. On first listen, however, alt-country has an
