Electronics in pop music

Electronic instruments, like the theremin (1920), Moog synthesizer (1964), MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) (1981), or 2000s computer technology, found their way to and were used in popular music. Early electronic instruments (like synthesizers) were large, difficult to operate, and monophonic (only able to play one note at a time), but polyphonic versions, like the Prophet-5 (1978)[1] or the portable and practical Mini-moog (1970), had a greater impact on popular music, spawning numerous pop and rock genres.[2]

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The use of electronic instruments in pop music include the following instances:

1970s
  • New wave – electronic pop sub-genre
  • Synth-pop – electronic pop sub-genre developed in the UK
  • Techno pop – electronic pop sub-genre developed in Germany and Japan
1980s
  • Sophisti-pop – jazz-pop music style developed in the UK that uses electronic instruments
  • City pop – jazz-pop music style developed in Japan that uses electronic instruments
  • Dance-pop – electronic pop sub-genre developed in the United States and Europe
  • Electropop - electronic pop sub-genre developed in the UK, Germany, and Japan
1990s
  • K-pop – electronic pop sub-genre developed in South Korea
2000s
  • Wonky pop – electronic pop sub-genre developed in the UK
2010s
  • Hyperpop – electronic pop sub-genre developed on the Internet

Referneces
  1. Barry R. Parker, Good Vibrations: the Physics of Music (Boston MD: JHU Press, 2009), ISBN 0-8018-9264-3, p. 213.
  2. T. Pinch and F. Trocco, Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-674-01617-3, pp. 214-36.
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