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Popular music in the 50's were rock&roll, doo-wop, pop, swing, rhythm and blues, blues, Country music, rockabilly, and jazz music -
Popular music in the 60's rock and roll, folk rock, rhythm and blues, and antiwar music -
Popular music in the 70's was disco, funk, soul, R&B, smooth jazz, and jazz fusion -
Popular music in the 80's was Soft rock, Hip Hop, glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitar characterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics, and whammy bar abuse -
grunge, hip-hop, pop, electronic music, pop punk, and R&B. -
Despite the hip hop dominance, such as Southern hip hop which lasted for most of the decade (particularly the middle years), rock music was still popular, notably alternative rock, and especially genres such as post-grunge, post-Britpop, nu metal, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore, metalcore, and in some cases indie rock -
Pop music continued to dominate the charts in the 2010s
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