1950s In Music
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This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1950s.
In the First World, Rock 'n' Roll, Pop music, Swing music, R&B, Blues, Country music and Rockabilly dominated and defined the decade's music.
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“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
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