This style was also influenced by Western music such as rock, reggae and the funk.

A quantification of the rock exposure of Western Europe does indicate that many of the minor events for which a biological explanation has been sought are most readily explained by sampling bias.

The fired rockfall event is mentioned only by Livy ; Polybius is mute on the subject and there is no evidence of carbonized rock at the only two-tier rockfall in the Western Alps, located below the Col de la Traversette ( Mahaney, 2008 ).

International short wave radio stations such as The Voice of America, BBC, and Radio Ceylon played a major part in bringing Western pop, folk, and rock music to the masses.

By the 1990s, punk rock was sufficiently ingrained in Western culture that punk trappings were often used to market highly commercial bands as " rebels ".

The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.

*" Mosaic does not hold any delivery contracts with OCP for the purchase of Western Sahara rock.

*" The last shipment of Western Sahara rock purchased by Mosaic arrived in Tampa on January 29, 2009.

*" No Western Sahara rock has been purchased since this date and the Mosaic Company has no plans to purchase Western Sahara rock in future.

* January 26 – The Australia Day shootings rock Perth, Western Australia ; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by Eric Edgar Cooke.

Modern Western square dancing is danced to a variety of music types, everything from pop to traditional country to Broadway musical to contemporary country music — even rock and techno.

There are nine islands in this archipelago, usually divided into three groups ( Western, Central and Eastern ) and several smaller Formigas ( rock outcroppings ) located between São Miguel and Santa Maria Islands.

It is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the west coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony ( mostly Western Gulls, cormorants, and egrets ).

Their durability and ease of copying helped bring underground rock and punk music behind the Iron Curtain, creating a foothold for Western culture among the younger generations.

A rare foray into early psychedelic rock, it is credited by Jonathan Bellman as the first Western pop song to integrate Indian raga sounds — released six months before the Beatles ' " Norwegian Wood ".

Traditional pop or classic pop or standards music consists of Western ( and particularly American ) popular music that wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, as well as later music in the same styles.

Mountain Quarry, Western Australia is one of several blue stone quarries located within the park, popular with rock climbers and walkers.

In the 1960s, Japanese rock music bands imitated Western rock musicians such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones, along with other Appalachian folk music, psychedelic rock, mod and similar genres ; this was called Group Sounds ( G. S .).

Concepts like the Western town, Pullman City Harz, or the rock operas on the Brocken are intended to be particularly attractive to foreign tourists.

The influence of Western pop music has made the koto less prominent in Japan, although it is still developing as an instrument.

's visit to China, the first-ever visit by Western pop artists, which resulted in Anderson's film Foreign Skies: Wham!

Top-line studios such as Olympic Studios in London, Fine Recording in New York City, United Western Recorders, and Musart in Los Angeles quickly became among the most sought-after recording facilities in the world, and both these studios became veritable " hit factories " that produced many of the most successful pop recordings of the latter 20th century.

In the Upper Midwestern United States and Canada, soft drinks are called " pop ", whilst in other areas, notably the Northeastern and far Western United States, they are referred to as " soda ".

On March 3, 1956, the song entered the Billboard pop chart at number 68, and the Country and Western chart at number nine.

Although the creation of the superhero was the Golden Age's most significant contribution to pop culture, many genres appeared on the newsstands, including humor, Western, romance, and jungle stories.

Still, with the merit of supporting great opening initiatives: the appropriation of Western artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others from the Woodstock generation, the public performance of gospel-like music, the opening to big international issues ( pop culture, accountability of the leadership, tension surging during the Cold War-with surprisingly neutral positions etc.

By the late 1960s, however, the pop scene was dominated by generic guitar bands that imitated Western acts.

The majority of scores are orchestral works rooted in Western classical music, but a great number of scores also draw influence from jazz, rock, pop, blues, New Age ambient music, and a wide range of ethnic and world music styles.

Worldbeat is a music genre that primarily refers to a blending of Western pop music with traditional / folk or world music influences ( examples in Section 2 of this article ).

Worldbeat defines a hybrid of what can be listed under the generalized World music term, even though it features a prominent interbreeding with elements of Western, pop music.

One of the most popular and successful country and Western singers of his era, for most of his nearly four-decade career, Robbins was rarely far from the country music charts, and several of his songs also became pop hits.

Cantopop draws its influence not only from other forms of Chinese music, but from international styles, including jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, electronic music, Western pop music and others.

Ernest Jennings Ford ( February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991 ), better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres.

Dance music in Croatia was an offspring of the local pop music and more Western influences.

, a Russian pop group that broke through to Western charts

Among the most popular forms of modern music in Mongolia are Western pop and rock genres and the mass songs, which are written by modern authors in a form of folk songs.

There is also a long established and distinctive " Mongolian pop " genre that occupies the same place on the musical spectrum as Japanese Enka music or Western soft-pop-oriented folk music or country music.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music ; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation and also frequently makes use of the ever-changing phrase lengths so typical of the Napoli school.

Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

Both worked on Talking Heads ' highly-acclaimed 1980 album Remain In Light which brought polyrhythmic afrobeat influences to Western music.

Ballroom / Smooth dances are normally danced to Western music ( often from the mid-twentieth century ), and couples dance counter-clockwise around a rectangular floor following the line of dance.

He retained elements of the original, but threw some country music aspects in to the song ( specifically, Western Swing ) and cleaned up the lyrics.

Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known as the King of Western Swing.

Wills recalled the early days of what became known as Western swing music in a 1949 interview.

Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.

The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1750 and 1820.

However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.

While some suggest that he was overshadowed by Mozart and Beethoven, it would be difficult to overstate Haydn's centrality to the new style, and therefore to the future of Western art music as a whole.

** Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture

Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of computing technology in music composition ; particularly that stemming from the Western art music tradition.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

Knuth had a difficult time choosing physics over music as his major at Case Institute of Technology ( now part of Case Western Reserve University ).

The double bass is a standard member of the string section of the symphony orchestra and smaller string ensembles in Western classical music.

DanceWriting uses figurative and abstract symbols on a five-line staff ( the Western music notation staff ).