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According to Grove Music Online, the term " pop music " " originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced ...".

The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's " earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience ... since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, ABBA, etc.

" Grove Music Online also states that "... in the early 1960s term ‘ pop music ’ competed terminologically with Beat music England, while in the USA its coverage overlapped ( as it still does ) with that of ‘ rock and roll ’.

" Chambers ' Dictionary mentions the contemporary usage of the term " pop art "; Grove Music Online states that the " term pop music ... seems to have been a spin-off from the terms pop art and pop culture, coined slightly earlier, and referring to a whole range of new, often American, media-culture products ".