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Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989)
(Redirected from 1980s in music)
- International trends
- Alternative rock and post punk artists like Joy Division (Closer), The Specials (More Specials) and U2 (Boy) achieve some popularity with influential releases; they are accompanied by popular punk and New Wave releases from Devo (Freedom of Choice), Talking Heads (Remain in Light), The Pretenders (Pretenders), The Clash (London Calling) and The Jam (Sound Affects )
- Van Halen helps to revitalize the heavy metal genre, and brings the rock scene in Los Angeles, California to the world's attention.
- Hank Sapoznik, The Klezmorim , Kapelye , Andy Statman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band emerge at the forefront of a klezmer revival among Jews in Israel, the US and UK.
- Artists like Wilfrido Vargas help popularize merengue, drawing on a large Dominican minority internationally in cities like New York
- Talking Heads' Remain in Light is the beginning of worldbeat music
- Music of Argentina
- Cuarteto undergoes a popular revitalization
- A concert by Serú Girán draws more than 60,000 Argentinean rock fans, who are defying official repression of rock by military authorities
- Music of Australia
- The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) begins broadcasting, leading to a revival in traditional aboriginal music
- Music of Canada
- Artists like Figgy Duff inspire a resurgence in popularity of Newfoundland and other Maritime musical traditions
- Music of China
- Rangzen Shonu helps lead a merger of Tibetan and Western rock and pop music; recordings by Mickey Hart and Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi) help further fuse Tibetan, New Age and Western classical music. One year later, Alain Presencer 's The Singing Bowls of Tibet proved an influential fusion of Western and Tibetan forms
- Music of Finland
- Even while its hipness fades worldwide, opera experiences a massive revival in Finland
- Music of Germany
- Alt-folk group Biermosl Blosn appear on Bavarian TV playing the national anthem with words attacking the Bavarian President Franz Josef Strauss, leading to increasing attention and controversy of the new wave of folk music
- Music of Guinea-Bissau
- Super Mama Djombo 's debut, Cambança , is popular across Guinea-Bissau
- Music of Japan
- Music of Korea
- T'ong guitar music becomes soft and ballad-oriented, fueling the grow, alternative Norae Undong rock movement
- Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe
- Kassav's popularity grows in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti and Paris; the band and its imitators help invent a style of music called zouk, which will soon explode across the Caribbean, Africa and other parts of the world
- Music of Mexico
- Music of Nigeria
- Ebenezer Obey releases Current Affairs , making him briefly an international star and bringing new attention to Nigerian music
- Music of Iceland
- Music of Portugal
- "Chico Fininho" by Rui Veloso marks the beginning of a distinct rock sound in Portugal
- Music of Thailand
- A form of Thai pop called string develops
- Music of Trinidad and Tobago
- The Network Riddum Band 's Breaking Out marks the peak of rapso's popularity in Trinidad and abroad
- Music of the United States
- Casper 's "Groovy Ghost Show" is the beginning of recorded hip hop from Chicago
- Hardcore punk rock begins its golden age, centered in California and Washington DC, while hardcore fusion genres are created by The Cramps' Songs the Lord Taught Us (voodoobilly ) and Bad Brains' Pay to Cum (reggae-punk)
International trends in music
- International trends
- Montserratian soca band Arrow releases "Hot! Hot! Hot!", which is the first major worldwide hit for soca
- Van Halen becomes the highest paid band in music history, receiving $1,000,000 for a 90-minute set at the US Festival in Southern California.
- Music of Armenia
- With the loosening of restrictions, Thessilk becomes the first Armenian rock band to gain in fame
- Music of Barbados
- The Belair Jazz Club , the island's most pre-eminent jazz club, closes
- Music of Burkina Faso
- The Semaine Nationale de la Culture is first held; the music festival helps to popularize native stars
- Music of Côte d'Ivoire
- Alpha Blondy becomes a star after appearing on the TV show First chance and his first recording, "Brigadier Sabari", is a national hit; this is the beginning of reggae's mainstream popularity in the country
- Music of Ireland
- Traditional set dancing undergoes a major revival of interest
- Music of Japan
- Charlie Ahearn 's film Wild Style is shown in Tokyo, sparking a local hip hop scene, soon based around Yoyogi Park
- Music of Mali
- Jali Musa Juawara 's Yasimiki sparks a Malian roots revival and a wave of popular acoustic albums of traditional Mande music
- Music of New Zealand
- Music of Switzerland
- Ex-Trem Normal release "Warum" and "Welcome to Switzerland", which establish a new wave of distinctively Bernese rock
- Music of the United Kingdom
- Music of the United States
- International trends
- Aerosmith begins its return to popular acceptance with Done with Mirrors
- Changes in British immigration laws results in a large number of Ghanaians emigrating to Germany instead; the Ghanaian-German community creates a distinctive kind of highlife called burgher-highlife
- Zouk has become an international success, influencing merengue and compas, along with most other forms of Latin American music
- Chart success helps to jumpstart the careers of Sting (The Dream of the Blue Turtles ), Wham! (Make It Big) and Prince (Around the World in a Day )
- The Rock in Rio festival brings about the dominance of rock and roll in Brazil and other Latin American countries
- Live Aid starts the trend for charity festivals and records, and catapults a number of notable acts to prominence, such as U2, Simple Minds and Phil Collins
- Ali Baba's Northern meroonian nganja gains unprecedented popularity at home and in the United Kingdom
- Soukous, or popular Congolese music, becomes closely associated with Paris, where several new stars of Congolese descent emerge, including Four Stars and some of the first female African stars like M'Pongo Love and Mbilia Bel .
- Music of Brazil
- Lambada, having moved its center of innovation from Belém to Salvador, becomes a local favorite dominated by light pop rhythms and synthesizers
- Music of Ireland
- Music of Jamaica
- Wayne Smith 's "Under Me Sleng Teng" is the first ragga recording
- Music of Japan
- Crazy A and DJ Krush emerges as the first stars of hip hop
- Music of Madagascar
- Most of the popular record labels in Madagscar fold due to financial problems; Western pop dominates the Malagasy audiences
- GlobeStyle Records records two compilations of folk music, helping to inspire American and European musicians like Henry Kaiser to take an interest in Malagasy folk
- Music of Nigeria
- King Sunny Ade's band walks out in the middle of a Japanese tour and Island Records drops his contract, thus ending the brief boom for juju music outside of Nigeria; in Nigeria, juju begins to lose ground to Yo-pop music
- Music of Senegal
- Hip hop begins to break into Senegalese audiences
- Music of Spain
- Ketama 's Ketama is an influential nuevo flamenco album which fuses rock and roll and salsa with traditional flamenco
- Music of Tanzania
- Hugo Kisima lures musicians from DDC Mlimani Park Orchestra and disbands the wildly-popular Orchestra Safari Sound , forming the International Orchestra Safari Sound
- Orchestre Maquis Original 's "Karubandika" introduces a popular new dance called the zembwela
- Jah Kimbuteh and his band, Roots and Kulture , bring reggae to mainstream Tanzanian audiences
- Music of Thailand
- Thai-Cambodian musicians in Surin begin electrifying kantrum music
- Music of Turkey
- Belkis Akkale 's mainstream career peaks, setting the stage for the next wave of TRT (popular urban folk music) performers
- Zülfü Livaneli innovates the guitar-based özgün genre
- Music of the United Kingdom
- Music of the United States
- Music of Zambia
- Popular musicians like Paul Ngozi help invent a kind of music called kalindula
- International trends
- Music of Algeria
- Rai's popularity and influence in Algeria and among immigrants in France help to begin breaking into the mainstream there, and elsewhere in Europe, including future-superstar Cheb Khaled (Kutche )
- Mory Kanté releases "Yeke Yeke", a classic Mande song; it becomes a surprise chart-topper throughout Europe
- Music of China
- Chi Zhiqiang 's songs about his time in prison begin a brief period of popularity for prison songs in Chinese rock
- Music of Croatia
- Vjestice is the first band to mix rock and roll with Croatian folk music
- Music of Dominica
- The formation of WCK marks the beginning of bouyon music, and the re-emergence of Dominica in the field of international popular music
- Music of Egypt
- Hamid el-Shaeri 's "Lolaiki" is the first major hit for al-jil music
- Music of Estonia
- Music of Germany
- Music of Iceland
- Led by The Sugarcubes, Icelandic rock music begins to enjoy popularity elsewhere, primarily in Europe
- Music of Mali
- Ami Koita 's Tata Sira is the best-selling album of the year in Mali, and is perhaps the pinnacle of success for the jelimusolu
- Music of New Zealand
- Palestinian music
- Thaer Barghouti 's Doleh and Sabreen ?s Mawt a?nabi are influential recordings among the youths of the Intifada
- Music of Romania
- Music of Senegal
- The band Xalam, who had become internationally renowned since moving to Paris without any success at home, finally scores a Senegalese fusion hit with Xarit
- Music of the United Kingdom
- Steven Morrissey leaves The Smiths for a solo career, going on to release albums that reflect the beginning of a new psychedelic-pop sound in the UK
- The "Summer of Love" in the UK marks a boom in house music
- My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything is released, commonly considered the first shoegazing album
- Aswad's "Don't Turn Around" is the first chart-topper from a British reggae band and marks the peak of popularity for mainstream reggae
- Music of the United States
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