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Music in the 50's
Popular music in the 50's were rock&roll, doo-wop, pop, swing, rhythm and blues, blues, Country music, rockabilly, and jazz music -
Music in the 60's
Popular music in the 60's rock and roll, folk rock, rhythm and blues, and antiwar music -
Music in the 70's
Popular music in the 70's was disco, funk, soul, R&B, smooth jazz, and jazz fusion -
Music in the 80's
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 -
Music in the 90's
grunge, hip-hop, pop, electronic music, pop punk, and R&B. -
Music in the 2000's
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 -
Music in the 2010's
Pop music continued to dominate the charts in the 2010s
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