popular music
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Classical training came early - he learnt tabla alongside vocal training - but so did exposure to popular music.
From BBC
Founded in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honours those "whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook".
From BBC
The King also noted the "success of Irish pop and rock bands in the field of popular music".
From BBC
The centerpiece of 20th-century life was, he writes, an “abundance of cultural invention,” especially in popular music.
“Rock ’N’ Roll,” which he dedicated to Vaclav Havel, explores the rebellious, Dionysian force of popular music, an eternal source of inspiration for him, in a play set partly in Prague during the Communist era.
From Los Angeles Times
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