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Music genre
Power pop is a subgenre of rock music and a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Who. It typically incorporates melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, an energetic performance, and cheerful-sounding music underpinned by a sense of yearning, longing, despair, or self-empowerment. The sound is primarily rooted in pop and rock traditions of the early-to-mid 1960s, although later examples sometimes draw from punk, new wave, glam rock, pub rock, college rock, and neo-psychedelia. Wikipedia →
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Noun A genre of popular music inspired by 1960s British and American pop and rock music, with strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs.
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Description and Power Analysis of Two Tests for Detecting Recent Population Bottlenecks From Allele Frequency Data
Celebrity Public Relations in China: Power, Politics and Pop Propaganda
Pop-management: tales of passion, power and profit
Everybody's free (to wear sunscreen): the power of pop
K-pop Idols as Diplomats: South Korean Celebrities and Soft Power
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Comics and nation: power, pop culture, and political transformation in Poland
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Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation
K-POP AS A MAIN TOOL OF KOREAN ‘SOFT POWER’ TOWARDS CENTRAL ASIA
Soft power: jeans and US pop better than bombs and ‘development aid’?
The Easybeats: From power pop to Oz rock
Sound, dispositif and power: sound formations in pop music
📚 Books worth reading
Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategiesCorey Sandler, Tom Badgett · 1991
Powers scriptbookBrian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming · 2001
Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear Strategies, '94 EditionCorey Sandler, Tom Badgett
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