Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

Early in 1986, the musical sitcom Kids Incorporated, about a pre-teen ( and later teen-to-young adult ) gang of friends who formed a pop group, mixing their everyday situations with variety-show and music video style performances.

Early episodes of the pop music-chart show Top of the Pops were wiped or never recorded and only broadcast " live ", the last edition that was wiped from the BBC archives dates from 8 September 1977.

Early hillbilly also borrowed elements of the blues and drew upon more aspects of 19th-century pop songs as hillbilly music evolved into a commercial genre eventually known as country and western and then simply country.

Early in their recording careers, Hall & Oates had trouble clearly defining their sound, alternating among folk, soul, rock and pop.

On April 16, The Early Show scored a coup with the broadcast of British pop music sensation Susan Boyle singing live for an American TV audience.

Early Cantopop was developed from cantonese opera music hybridized with western pop.

Early pioneers in this field of pop rekilaulu included Arthur Kylander, while Erkki Rankaviita and Pinnin Pojat have kept the tradition alive.

Early pop recording examples include The Chambers Brothers ' " Time Has Come Today " and Hugh Masekela's 1968 instrumental " Grazin ' in the Grass ".

Early programmes started out with a general diet of local news, community information, talk and middle-of-the-road pop music, then eventually became more and more formatted, saving its 4 hour ' needle time ' daily music quota for the evening show to play rock and newer pop.

Early works have a focus more on pop sensibilities, with a mixture of hip hop and breakbeat.

Early in the decade, Petra produced a straightforward pop / rock sound reminiscent of Foreigner, while increasingly using synthesizers and techno-style effects as the decade progressed.

** Early 80s: KNHC played a light rock / pop format during the day, with specialty shows in the evenings and on weekends, including jazz and classical.

Early in her solo career she was also noted for her commercial dance pop stylings with a funky edge.

Oliver's last single to enter the pop music charts was his 1971 cover of " Early Morning Rain " by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.

Early USA examples include Stan Freberg, who lampooned artists such as Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte and The Platters, and Sheb Wooley whose " Purple People Eater " reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart in 1958 and stayed there 6 weeks.

Early on, Thayer was raised in a musical family with three brothers and a sister amidst sounds that ranged from classical to The Beatles and other classic 1960s pop music.

In 1999 she set up her own record label, Early Records, upon leaving Talkin ’ Loud to release quirky pop anthems.

According to Nicolette, Early Records ' music policy is: " innovative pop music.

Early on, before the producers decided to cast mostly unknown actors for the movie, the lead role of Violet Sanford was offered to pop singer Jessica Simpson, who turned it down.

Early on, the band's music courted controversy with its attacks on manufactured pop ; for example, the group's single " Louis Walsh " targeted Louis Walsh ( the svengali behind Westlife and Boyzone amongst others ).

* Early Christian art and architecture

For example the term " Flemish Primitives ", now outdated in English but used in French, Flemish and other languages, is a synonym for " Early Netherlandish painting ", and it is not uncommon to see Mosan art categorized as Flemish art.

Early Christianity, emerging from a Graeco-Roman culture where the most usual form of cult image was the three-dimensional statue, for long avoided these in Christian art, associating them with idolatry.

It uses a distinctive form of the general Celtic Early Medieval development of La Tène style with increasing influences from the Insular art of 7th and 8th century Ireland and Northumbria, and then Anglo-Saxon and Irish art as the Early Medieval period continues.

The art technique was known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic painting and was the main medium used for panel painting and illuminated manuscripts in the Byzantine world and Medieval and Early renaissance Europe.

Early museums began as the private collections of wealthy individuals, families or institutions of art and rare or curious natural objects and artifacts.

Dendrochronology has become important to art historians in the dating of panel paintings, and can also provide information as to the source of the panel — many Early Netherlandish paintings have turned out to be painted on panels of " Baltic oak " shipped from the Vistula region via ports of the Hanseatic League.

Early Egyptian art is characterized by absence of linear perspective, which results in a seemingly flat space.

The palace houses many works of art and furnishings from the Royal Collection, mainly dating from the two principal periods of the palace's construction, the early Tudor ( Renaissance ) and late Stuart to Early Georgian period.

Early in his career, he wanted to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art.

Early " stone age art " dates back to 10, 000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures.

Early forms of art in China are found in the Neolithic Yangshao culture (), which dates back to the 6th millennium BCE.

Early in the days of his official employment he startled his master's courtiers by the realism with which he painted still life, game and antlers on the walls of the country palaces at Coburg and Locha ; his pictures of deer and wild boar were considered striking, and the duke fostered his passion for this form of art by taking him out to the hunting field, where he sketched " his grace " running the stag, or Duke John sticking a boar.

Early box cover art

Pioneer days in Laguna Beach and its growth from a few scattered buildings to one of the most beautiful seaside resorts in the West as well as a famous California art colony was vividly recounted by J. S. Thurston ( born in 1868 ), a son of one of the community's original settlers, in Laguna Beach of Early Days ( The Press of Murray & Gee, Culver City, California, 1947 ).

The post office's most interesting feature is a mural installed in 1938 by the noted artist Jared Blanford French ( 1905 – 1988 ) entitled " Mealtime, The Early Coal Miners ," one of more than 1, 200 works of art commissioned by the U. S. Treasury between the years 1934 and 1943 through a program intended to embellish Federal buildings and encourage the arts during the Great Depression.

Early non-Western installation art includes events staged by the Gutai group in Japan starting in 1954, which influenced American installation pioneers like Allan Kaprow.

After Inness settled in Montclair, New Jersey in 1885, and particularly in the last decade of his life, this mystical component manifested in his art through a more abstracted handling of shapes, softened edges, and saturated color ( October, 1886, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ), a profound and dramatic juxtaposition of sky and earth ( Early Autumn, Montclair, 1888, Montclair Art Museum ), an emphasis on the intimate landscape view ( Sunset in the Woods, 1891, Corcoran Gallery of Art ), and an increasingly personal, spontaneous, and often violent handling of paint.

Already as crown prince Ludwig collected especially Early German and Early Dutch paintings, masterpieces of the Italian renaissance, and contemporary art for his museums and galleries.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

** Early Modern Britain, Britain from the Tudor period, from 1485 to 1707

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Early Christians in Britain and Ireland also used an 84-year cycle.

* Early modern Britain

Early in his term, Major presided over British participation in the Gulf War in March 1991 and negotiated " Game, Set and Match for Britain " at the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991.

Preventing and Punishing Insurrection in Early Hanoverian Britain.

Early examples of kilns found in Britain include those made for the making of roof-tiles during the Roman occupation.

* Jackson, Kenneth ( 1953 ) Language & History in Early Britain, Edinburgh University Press

Early activists in the colonies called themselves " Whigs ", seeing themselves as in alliance with the political opposition in Britain, until they turned to independence and started emphasising the label Patriots.

His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award ( 1984 ) and Boyd McCandless Award ( 1986 ) from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award ( 1993 ) from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize ( 2004 ) from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the George Miller Prize ( 2010 ) from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Early in the century the school of criticism known as Russian Formalism, and slightly later the New Criticism in Britain and America, came to dominate the study and discussion of literature.

Bacup emerged as a settlement following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the Early Middle Ages.

Early post-war designs were based on domestic works as well as captured German jet fighters and information provided by Britain or the US.

Early cars had frames which were intended to flex as part of the suspension system in order to simplify construction The Morgan Motor Company of Great Britain still manufacture sports cars with frames made from Ash.

Broadly speaking, they have tended to produce theories which place their subject at the centre of the history of north Britain in the Early Historic period.

Early formal organizations run by converted Jews include: the Anglican London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews of Joseph Frey ( 1809 ), which published the first Yiddish New Testament in 1821 ; the " Beni Abraham " association, established by Frey in 1813 with a group of 41 Jewish Christians who started meeting at Jews ' Chapel, London for prayers Friday night and Sunday morning ; and the London Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain founded by Dr. Carl Schwartz in 1866.

* Early 1700s: General William Roy sought an area of land suitable for what was to become the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain trigonometrical survey.

There was a unique Early Medieval tradition in Ireland and Britain of raising large sculpted stone crosses, usually outdoors.

* Early Modern Britain

Early Radio Central transmissions were received by many European nations, including Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Poland.

Article included in " A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland, C. 500-c. 1100 " ( 2009 ).

Language and History in Early Britain.