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Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Original Pop rock and roll swing country folk jazz Subsequent: Pop Europop country folk rock
- Cultural origins
- 1950s, West Germany, East Germany and Austria
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Country of origin
- Europe
- Image
- Und abends in die Scala.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Schlager
- Commons category
- Schlager
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- inception
- 1874-00-00
- date popularized
- 1920-00-00
- native label
- Schlager
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Encyclopedic overview
Schlager ( German: [ˈʃlaːɡɐ], "hit(s)") is a style of European popular music generally defined by catchy instrumental accompaniments to vocal pieces of pop music with simple, easygoing, and often sentimental lyrics.
Michelle performing in Berlin, 15 March 2017, where she sang schlagers as well as ballads
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “schlager music” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.