British Invasion
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| + | "<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[The Beatles]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> brought home exactly how [[conformist]] America had really become; they woke people up; they crystallized all kinds of vague [[discontent]]s. They didn't sermonize, they didn't have to. Just by existing, they played a major part in turning [[dissent]] from an intellectual [[left-wing]] indulgence into something that involved maybe thirty per cent of all American teens."--''[[Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom]]'' (1969) by Nik Cohn | ||
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| - | The '''British Invasion''' was the term applied by the news media—and subsequently by consumers—to the influx of [[rock and roll]], [[beat music|beat]] and [[pop music|pop]] performers from the United Kingdom who became popular in the United States and Canada. The classic British Invasion period was 1964 to 1967 (roughly bracketed by The Beatles' appearance on Ed Sullivan and the emergence of [[Jimi Hendrix]] as a U.S.-born superstar who had his first success in the UK), but the term has also been applied to later "waves" of UK artists that had significant impact on the North American entertainment market. | + | The '''British Invasion''' was a cultural [[phenomenon]] of the mid-1960s, when [[Rock music|rock]] and [[pop music]] acts from the [[United Kingdom]] and other aspects of [[Culture of the United Kingdom|British culture]] became popular in the United States and significant to the rising "[[counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture]]" on both sides of the Atlantic. Pop and rock groups such as [[the Beatles]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[the Kinks]], [[the Dave Clark Five]], [[Herman's Hermits]], [[the Zombies]], and [[the Animals]] were at the forefront of the "invasion". |
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"[The Beatles] brought home exactly how conformist America had really become; they woke people up; they crystallized all kinds of vague discontents. They didn't sermonize, they didn't have to. Just by existing, they played a major part in turning dissent from an intellectual left-wing indulgence into something that involved maybe thirty per cent of all American teens."--Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (1969) by Nik Cohn |
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The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States and significant to the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic. Pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermits, the Zombies, and the Animals were at the forefront of the "invasion".
Mentioned in
- The Beatles
- The Rolling Stones
- Beat music
- North American counterculture
- Music history of the United States (1960s and 70s)
