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Traditional pop or Classic pop or Standards music denotes, in general, Western (and particularly American) popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the appearance of rock and roll, and its offshoots, as the dominant commercial music of the United States and Western culture. (For a definition of "Traditional pop" see [1].) The terms pop standards or (where relevant) American standards are used to denote the most popular and enduring songs from this style of music.
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1 Origins
2 The Advent of Rock and Roll
3 Current Adherence to Traditional Pop
4 Singers and groups generally associated with Traditional Pop
5 See also
6 References
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Classic pop embraces the song output of the Broadway and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Harold......
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