Category
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beat music
popular music genre, influenced by rock and roll, skiffle, traditional pop music; developed in the UK early 1960s
freakbeat
Freakbeat is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music originally coined by English music journalist Phil Smee in 1986 to refer to "hard-edged" British mod groups during the British Invasion and Swinging London period of the mid-to late 1960s. The genre bridges R&B, beat and early psychedelia.