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Global culture: music (Britain's role) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Beginning in the 1950s with skiffle groups, young Britons began borrowing from different American styles to create their own version of each.
      - By the mid-1960s, English “beat” groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who had burst onto the world stage; in the United States their sensational popularity was labeled the British Invasion.
      - Thereafter, rock and pop music remained among Britain’s main cultural exports, marked by the international popularity of Led Zeppelin, Elton John, and Queen in the 1970s and punk groups such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash later in the decade.
    - - Explored the consequences of new technology and social change in synthpop.
      - MTV and cable video helped spur what has been seen as a Second British Invasion in the early years of the decade, with British bands enjoying more success in America than they had since Beatlemania in the 1960s.
      - Rock and pop music in the 1980s built on the post-punk and new wave movements.
    - - It is no surprise that people were afraid for what was to come as England had lost an entire generation in the trenches of World War I.
      - Some works for example by Frank Bridge contain an element of anxiety regarding the possibility of yet another massive conflict.
      - Music continued its important cultural position into the early years of the 20th century; in 1934 was what would later be called the “gathering storm” that culminated with World War II.
    - - 1990s - the decade of boy bands as well as girl bands; rise of World Music which helped to once again popularise folk music.
      - Electronic rock bands as well as alternative rock reached the mainstream, which led to the commercial success of the Prodigy and Britpop bands such as Blur and Oasis.
      - Britpop which was a movement of British rock bands in the mid-1990s that drew on the tradition of melodic, guitar-based British pop music established by the Beatles.