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by Grant Wood, see <a href="/wiki/Sentimental_Ballad_(painting)" title="Sentimental Ballad (painting)">Sentimental Ballad (painting)</a>. For information on the modified type of blues music in South Korea, see <a href="/wiki/Korean_ballad" title="Korean ballad">Korean ballad</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p>A <b>sentimental ballad</b> is an <a href="/wiki/Emotional" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional">emotional</a> style of music that often deals with <a href="/wiki/Romance_(love)" title="Romance (love)">romantic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Intimate_relationships" class="mw-redirect" title="Intimate relationships">intimate relationships</a>, and to a lesser extent, <a href="/wiki/Loneliness" title="Loneliness">loneliness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>, <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drug_abuse" class="mw-redirect" title="Drug abuse">drug abuse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.<sup id="cite_ref-M._Curtis,_1987_p._236_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M._Curtis,_1987_p._236-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ballads are generally melodic enough to get the listener's attention.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sentimental ballads are found in most <a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">music genres</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_R%26B" title="Contemporary R&B">R&B</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">country</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Usually slow in <a href="/wiki/Tempo" title="Tempo">tempo</a>, ballads tend to have a lush musical <a href="/wiki/Arrangement" title="Arrangement">arrangement</a> which emphasizes the song's <a href="/wiki/Melody" title="Melody">melody</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harmony" title="Harmony">harmonies</a>. Characteristically, ballads use <a href="/wiki/Musical_acoustics" title="Musical acoustics">acoustic</a> instruments such as <a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">pianos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saxophone" title="Saxophone">saxophones</a>, and sometimes an <a href="/wiki/Orchestra" title="Orchestra">orchestral</a> set. Many modern mainstream ballads tend to feature <a href="/wiki/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synthesizers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drum_machine" title="Drum machine">drum machines</a> and even, to some extent, a <a href="/wiki/Four_on_the_floor_(music)" title="Four on the floor (music)">dance rhythm</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sentimental ballads had their origins in the early <a href="/wiki/Tin_Pan_Alley" title="Tin Pan Alley">Tin Pan Alley</a> music industry of the later 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Initially known as "tear-jerkers" or "drawing-room <a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">ballads</a>", they were generally sentimental, narrative, <a href="/wiki/Strophic_form" title="Strophic form">strophic</a> songs published separately or as part of an <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a>, descendants perhaps of <a href="/wiki/Broadside_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadside (music)">broadside ballads</a>. As new genres of music began to emerge in the early 20th century, their popularity faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term <i>ballad</i> being used for a slow <a href="/wiki/Love_song" title="Love song">love song</a> from the 1950s onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">Ballad</a></div> <p>Sentimental ballads have their roots from medieval <a href="/wiki/Music_of_France" title="Music of France">French</a> <i>chanson balladée</i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Ballade_(forme_fixe)" title="Ballade (forme fixe)">ballade</a></i>, which were originally "danced songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> and song of the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a> from the later <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> period until the 19th century. They were widely used across <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, and later in the <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a narrative song, their theme and function may originate from <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic</a> traditions of storytelling.<sup id="cite_ref-Houseman1952_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Houseman1952-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Musically they were influenced by the <a href="/wiki/Minnesinger" class="mw-redirect" title="Minnesinger">Minnesinger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest example of a recognizable ballad in form in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> is "<a href="/wiki/Judas_(ballad)" title="Judas (ballad)">Judas</a>" in a 13th-century <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscript</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-N._Bold,_1979_p._5_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N._Bold,_1979_p._5-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A reference in <a href="/wiki/William_Langland" title="William Langland">William Langland</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Piers_Plowman" title="Piers Plowman">Piers Plowman</a></i> indicates that ballads about <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a> were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material is <a href="/wiki/Wynkyn_de_Worde" title="Wynkyn de Worde">Wynkyn de Worde's</a> collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.<sup id="cite_ref-Sweers2005_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweers2005-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century_–_early_20th_century"><span id="18th_century_.E2.80.93_early_20th_century"></span>18th century – early 20th century</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AftertheBallSheet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/AftertheBallSheet.jpg/220px-AftertheBallSheet.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/AftertheBallSheet.jpg/330px-AftertheBallSheet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/AftertheBallSheet.jpg/440px-AftertheBallSheet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1967" /></a><figcaption>"<a href="/wiki/After_the_Ball_(song)" title="After the Ball (song)">After the Ball</a>", a ballad by <a href="/wiki/Charles_K._Harris" title="Charles K. Harris">Charles K. Harris</a>, was the most successful song of its era, selling over two million copies of sheet music.<sup id="cite_ref-matters_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-matters-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Smith_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Ballads at this time were originally composed in couplets with <a href="/wiki/Refrain" title="Refrain">refrains</a> in alternate lines. These refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance.<sup id="cite_ref-British_Literature_pg_610_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Literature_pg_610-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 18th century, <a href="/wiki/Ballad_opera" title="Ballad opera">ballad operas</a> developed as a form of <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Stage_play" class="mw-redirect" title="Stage play">stage entertainment</a>, partly in opposition to the <a href="/wiki/Italian_opera" title="Italian opera">Italian</a> domination of the London operatic scene.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">America</a> a distinction is drawn between ballads that are versions of European, particularly British and <a href="/wiki/Irish_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish music">Irish songs</a>, and '<a href="/wiki/Native_American_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American music">Native American ballads</a>', developed without reference to earlier songs. A further development was the evolution of the <a href="/wiki/Blues_ballad" title="Blues ballad">blues ballad</a>, which mixed the genre with <a href="/wiki/Afro-American_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Afro-American music">Afro-American music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-I._Ousby,_2006_p._66_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-I._Ousby,_2006_p._66-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 19th century, Danish folklorist <a href="/wiki/Svend_Grundtvig" title="Svend Grundtvig">Svend Grundtvig</a> and Harvard professor <a href="/wiki/Francis_James_Child" title="Francis James Child">Francis James Child</a> attempted to record and classify all the known ballads and variants in their chosen regions.<sup id="cite_ref-N._Bold,_1979_p._5_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-N._Bold,_1979_p._5-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since Child died before writing a commentary on his work it is uncertain exactly how and why he differentiated the 305 ballads printed that would be published as <i><a href="/wiki/The_English_and_Scottish_Popular_Ballads" class="mw-redirect" title="The English and Scottish Popular Ballads">The English and Scottish Popular Ballads</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are the religious, supernatural, tragic, love ballads, historic, legendary and humorous.<sup id="cite_ref-Houseman1952_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Houseman1952-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian era</a>, <i>ballad</i> had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called "royalty ballads".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Foster" title="Stephen Foster">Stephen Foster</a>'s songs exemplify this genre. By the 1920s, composers of <a href="/wiki/Tin_Pan_Alley" title="Tin Pan Alley">Tin Pan Alley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> used <i>ballad</i> to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form. Jazz musicians sometimes broaden the term still further to embrace all slow-tempo pieces.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notable sentimental ballads of this period include, "Little Rosewood Casket" (1870), "<a href="/wiki/After_the_Ball_(song)" title="After the Ball (song)">After the Ball</a>" (1892), and "<a href="/wiki/Danny_Boy" title="Danny Boy">Danny Boy</a>" (1913).<sup id="cite_ref-Cohen2005p297_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cohen2005p297-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950s–1960s"><span id="1950s.E2.80.931960s"></span>1950s–1960s</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Traditional_pop" title="Traditional pop">Traditional pop</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frank_Sinatra_in_1957.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Frank_Sinatra_in_1957.jpg/170px-Frank_Sinatra_in_1957.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Frank_Sinatra_in_1957.jpg/255px-Frank_Sinatra_in_1957.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Frank_Sinatra_in_1957.jpg/340px-Frank_Sinatra_in_1957.jpg 2x" data-file-width="548" data-file-height="737" /></a><figcaption>In 1962, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> released <i><a href="/wiki/Sinatra_and_Strings" title="Sinatra and Strings">Sinatra and Strings</a></i>, a set of standard ballads, which became one of the most critically acclaimed works of Sinatra's entire Reprise period.<sup id="cite_ref-sinatraasidol_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sinatraasidol-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Popular sentimental ballad vocalists in this era include <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Williams" title="Andy Williams">Andy Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Mathis" title="Johnny Mathis">Johnny Mathis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connie_Francis" title="Connie Francis">Connie Francis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perry_Como" title="Perry Como">Perry Como</a>. Their recordings were usually lush orchestral arrangements of current or recent <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a> hit songs. The most popular and enduring songs from this style of music are known as "pop standards" or (where relevant) "American standards". Many vocalists became involved in 1960s' <a href="/wiki/Vocal_jazz" title="Vocal jazz">vocal jazz</a> and the rebirth of <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing music</a>, which was sometimes referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">easy listening</a>" and was, in essence, a revival of popularity of the "sweet bands" that had been popular during the <a href="/wiki/Swing_era" title="Swing era">swing era</a>, but with more emphasis on the vocalist and the sentimentality.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s">1970s</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Soft_rock" title="Soft rock">Soft rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Easy_listening" title="Easy listening">Easy listening</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Soft_rock" title="Soft rock">Soft rock</a>, a subgenre that mainly consists of ballads, was derived from <a href="/wiki/Folk_rock" title="Folk rock">folk rock</a> in the late 1960s, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies. Major sentimental ballad artists of this decade included <a href="/wiki/Barbra_Streisand" title="Barbra Streisand">Barbra Streisand</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nana_Mouskouri" title="Nana Mouskouri">Nana Mouskouri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John">Elton John</a>, <a href="/wiki/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(singer)" title="Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)">Engelbert Humperdinck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carole_King" title="Carole King">Carole King</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cat_Stevens" title="Cat Stevens">Cat Stevens</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Taylor" title="James Taylor">James Taylor</a>. By the early 1970s, softer ballad songs by <a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters" title="The Carpenters">the Carpenters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anne_Murray" title="Anne Murray">Anne Murray</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Denver" title="John Denver">John Denver</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Manilow" title="Barry Manilow">Barry Manilow</a> began to be played more often on "Top 40" radio.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Some rock-oriented acts such as <a href="/wiki/Queen_(band)" title="Queen (band)">Queen</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Eagles_(band)" title="Eagles (band)">Eagles</a> also produced ballads.<sup id="cite_ref-M._Curtis,_1987_p._236_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M._Curtis,_1987_p._236-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the word <i>ballad</i> appears in the title of a song, as for example in <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a>' "<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_John_and_Yoko" title="The Ballad of John and Yoko">The Ballad of John and Yoko</a>" (1969) or <a href="/wiki/Billy_Joel" title="Billy Joel">Billy Joel</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Billy_the_Kid" title="The Ballad of Billy the Kid">The Ballad of Billy the Kid</a>" (1974), the <a href="/wiki/Folk_music" title="Folk music">folk music</a> sense is generally implied. The term <i>ballad</i> is also sometimes applied to strophic story-songs more generally, such as <a href="/wiki/Don_McLean" title="Don McLean">Don McLean</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/American_Pie_(song)" title="American Pie (song)">American Pie</a>" (1971).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SoftRockClassificationBBC_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoftRockClassificationBBC-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s–1990s"><span id="1980s.E2.80.931990s"></span>1980s–1990s</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music" title="Adult contemporary music">Adult contemporary music</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Celine_Dion_Concert_Singing_%27Taking_Chances%27_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Celine_Dion_Concert_Singing_%27Taking_Chances%27_2008.jpg/220px-Celine_Dion_Concert_Singing_%27Taking_Chances%27_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Celine_Dion_Concert_Singing_%27Taking_Chances%27_2008.jpg/330px-Celine_Dion_Concert_Singing_%27Taking_Chances%27_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Celine_Dion_Concert_Singing_%27Taking_Chances%27_2008.jpg/440px-Celine_Dion_Concert_Singing_%27Taking_Chances%27_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2420" data-file-height="1612" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Celine_Dion" title="Celine Dion">Celine Dion</a>'s albums were generally constructed on the basis of melodramatic <a href="/wiki/Soft_rock" title="Soft rock">soft rock</a> ballads, with sprinklings of <a href="/wiki/Uptempo" class="mw-redirect" title="Uptempo">uptempo</a> pop and rare forays into other genres.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </figcaption></figure> <p>Prominent artists who made sentimental ballads in the 1980s include <a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Richie" title="Lionel Richie">Lionel Richie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peabo_Bryson" title="Peabo Bryson">Peabo Bryson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barry_White" title="Barry White">Barry White</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luther_Vandross" title="Luther Vandross">Luther Vandross</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Michael" title="George Michael">George Michael</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1990s mainstream pop/R&B singers such as <a href="/wiki/Boyz_II_Men" title="Boyz II Men">Boyz II Men</a>, <a href="/wiki/Celine_Dion" title="Celine Dion">Celine Dion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shania_Twain" title="Shania Twain">Shania Twain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whitney_Houston" title="Whitney Houston">Whitney Houston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mariah_Carey" title="Mariah Carey">Mariah Carey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Newer female singer-songwriters such as <a href="/wiki/Sarah_McLachlan" title="Sarah McLachlan">Sarah McLachlan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Merchant" title="Natalie Merchant">Natalie Merchant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jewel_(singer)" title="Jewel (singer)">Jewel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melissa_Etheridge" title="Melissa Etheridge">Melissa Etheridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Crow" title="Sheryl Crow">Sheryl Crow</a> also broke through on the AC chart during this time owing to their ballad-sound.<sup id="cite_ref-Hyatt_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hyatt-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000s">2000s</h3></div> <p>A popular trend in the early 2000s was remixing or re-recording <a href="/wiki/Dance_music" title="Dance music">dance music</a> hits into <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_pop" class="mw-redirect" title="Acoustic pop">acoustic</a> ballads (for example, the "Candlelight Mix" versions of "<a href="/wiki/Heaven_(Bryan_Adams_song)#DJ_Sammy_and_Yanou_version" title="Heaven (Bryan Adams song)">Heaven</a>" by <a href="/wiki/DJ_Sammy" title="DJ Sammy">DJ Sammy</a>, "<a href="/wiki/Listen_to_Your_Heart_(Roxette_song)#DHT_version" title="Listen to Your Heart (Roxette song)">Listen to Your Heart</a>" by <a href="/wiki/DHT_(band)" title="DHT (band)">DHT</a>, and "<a href="/wiki/Everytime_We_Touch_(Cascada_song)" title="Everytime We Touch (Cascada song)">Everytime We Touch</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Cascada" title="Cascada">Cascada</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010s">2010s</h3></div> <p>In the 2010s, indie musicians like <a href="/wiki/Imagine_Dragons" title="Imagine Dragons">Imagine Dragons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mumford_%26_Sons" title="Mumford & Sons">Mumford & Sons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Of_Monsters_and_Men" title="Of Monsters and Men">Of Monsters and Men</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Lumineers" title="The Lumineers">the Lumineers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ed_Sheeran" title="Ed Sheeran">Ed Sheeran</a> had indie songs that crossed over to the adult contemporary charts, due to their ballad-heavy sound.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genres">Genres</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jazz_and_traditional_pop">Jazz and traditional pop</h3></div> <p>Most <a href="/wiki/Traditional_pop" title="Traditional pop">pop standard</a> and jazz ballads are built from a single, introductory <i>verse</i>, usually around 16 <a href="/wiki/Bar_(music)" title="Bar (music)">bars</a> in length, and they end on the <a href="/wiki/Dominant_(music)" title="Dominant (music)">dominant</a> – the <i>chorus</i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Refrain" title="Refrain">refrain</a></i>, usually 16 or 32 bars long and in <a href="/wiki/AABA_form" class="mw-redirect" title="AABA form">AABA form</a> (though other forms, such as ABAC, are not uncommon). In AABA forms, the B section is usually referred to as the <i><a href="/wiki/Bridge_(music)" title="Bridge (music)">bridge</a></i>; often a brief <i><a href="/wiki/Coda_(music)" title="Coda (music)">coda</a></i>, sometimes based on material from the bridge, is added, as in "<a href="/wiki/Over_the_Rainbow" title="Over the Rainbow">Over the Rainbow</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pop_and_R&B_ballads"><span id="Pop_and_R.26B_ballads"></span>Pop and R&B ballads</h3></div> <p>The most common use of the term "ballad" in modern <a href="/wiki/Pop_music" title="Pop music">pop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Contemporary_R%26B" title="Contemporary R&B">R&B music</a> is for an emotional song about romance, breakup and/or <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">longing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cohen2005p297_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cohen2005p297-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The singer would usually <a href="/wiki/Lament" title="Lament">lament</a> an <a href="/wiki/Unrequited_love" title="Unrequited love">unrequited</a> or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a <a href="/wiki/Romance_(love)" title="Romance (love)">romantic</a> <a href="/wiki/Affair" title="Affair">affair</a> has affected the relationship.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-forte_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forte-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Power_ballads">Power ballads</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Power ballads" redirects here. 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.infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Power ballad</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Ec-hasslau.de_010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Ec-hasslau.de_010.jpg/220px-Ec-hasslau.de_010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Ec-hasslau.de_010.jpg/330px-Ec-hasslau.de_010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Ec-hasslau.de_010.jpg/440px-Ec-hasslau.de_010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">To emphasize the emotional aspect of a power ballad, crowds customarily hold up <a href="/wiki/Lighter" title="Lighter">lighters</a> adjusted to produce a large flame (or, as a more recent alternative, a turned-on <a href="/wiki/Smartphone" title="Smartphone">smartphone</a> screen or flashlight function).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Stylistic origins</th><td class="infobox-data hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arena_rock" title="Arena rock">Arena rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop_rock" title="Pop rock">pop rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cultural origins</th><td class="infobox-data hlist">Early 1970s</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Other topics</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soft_rock" title="Soft rock">Soft rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glam_metal" title="Glam metal">glam metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Power_pop" title="Power pop">power pop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-grunge" title="Post-grunge">post-grunge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adult_contemporary_music" title="Adult contemporary music">adult contemporary</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Simon_Frith" title="Simon Frith">Simon Frith</a>, the British sociomusicologist and former rock critic, identifies the origins of the power ballad in the emotional singing of <a href="/wiki/Soul_music" title="Soul music">soul</a> artists, particularly <a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>, and the adaptation of this style by performers such as <a href="/wiki/Eric_Burdon" title="Eric Burdon">Eric Burdon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Jones_(singer)" title="Tom Jones (singer)">Tom Jones</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Joe_Cocker" title="Joe Cocker">Joe Cocker</a> to produce slow-tempo songs often building to a loud and emotive chorus backed by drums, electric guitars, and sometimes choirs.<sup id="cite_ref-Frithpop_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frithpop-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Aaron" title="Charles Aaron">Charles Aaron</a>, power ballads came into existence in the early 1970s, when rock stars attempted to convey profound messages to audiences while retaining their "macho rocker" mystique.<sup id="cite_ref-aaron_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aaron-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a> power ballad typically expresses love or heartache through its lyrics, shifting into wordless intensity and emotional transcendence with heavy drumming and a distorted <a href="/wiki/Electric_guitar" title="Electric guitar">electric guitar</a> solo representing the "power" in the power ballad.<sup id="cite_ref-Metzer2017_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metzer2017-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brown2016_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown2016-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aaron argues that the hard rock power ballad broke into the mainstream of American consciousness in 1976 as FM radio gave a new lease of life to earlier impassioned songs such as <a href="/wiki/Badfinger" title="Badfinger">Badfinger</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Without_You_(Badfinger_song)" title="Without You (Badfinger song)">Without You</a>", <a href="/wiki/Led_Zeppelin" title="Led Zeppelin">Led Zeppelin</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven" title="Stairway to Heaven">Stairway to Heaven</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Aerosmith" title="Aerosmith">Aerosmith</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Dream_On_(Aerosmith_song)" title="Dream On (Aerosmith song)">Dream On</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-aaron_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aaron-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters" title="The Carpenters">The Carpenters</a>' 1972 single "<a href="/wiki/Goodbye_to_Love" title="Goodbye to Love">Goodbye to Love</a>" has also been identified as a prototype of the power ballad, driven by the hard rock guitar sound of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Peluso" title="Tony Peluso">Tony Peluso</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> British <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Judas_Priest" title="Judas Priest">Judas Priest</a> wrote many power ballads, starting with "<a href="/wiki/Dreamer_Deceiver" title="Dreamer Deceiver">Dreamer Deceiver</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Beyond_the_Realms_of_Death" title="Beyond the Realms of Death">Beyond the Realms of Death</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Brown2016_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown2016-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>American rock band <a href="/wiki/Styx_(band)" title="Styx (band)">Styx</a> has been credited with releasing the first true power ballad, the song "<a href="/wiki/Lady_(Styx_song)" title="Lady (Styx song)">Lady</a>", in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its writer, <a href="/wiki/Dennis_DeYoung" title="Dennis DeYoung">Dennis DeYoung</a> is called the "father of the power ballad".<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1980s, bands such as <a href="/wiki/Journey_(band)" title="Journey (band)">Journey</a> and <a href="/wiki/REO_Speedwagon" title="REO Speedwagon">REO Speedwagon</a> contributed to the power ballad becoming a staple of hard rock performers who wanted to gain more radio airplay and satisfy their female audience members with a slower, more emotional love song.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6tley_Cr%C3%BCe" title="Mötley Crüe">Mötley Crüe</a> was one of the bands showcasing this style, with songs such as "<a href="/wiki/Home_Sweet_Home_(M%C3%B6tley_Cr%C3%BCe_song)" title="Home Sweet Home (Mötley Crüe song)">Home Sweet Home</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/You%27re_All_I_Need_(song)" title="You're All I Need (song)">You're All I Need</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Harrison2011_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harrison2011-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nearly every hard rock and <a href="/wiki/Glam_metal" title="Glam metal">glam metal</a> band wrote at least one power ballad for each album, and record labels often released these as the album's second single.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/Grunge" title="Grunge">grunge</a> appeared as a counterpoint to the excesses of 1980s hard rock and glam metal, one of the distinctions of the grunge style was the absence of power ballads;<sup id="cite_ref-Harrison2011_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harrison2011-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, some songs from this era such as "Rooster" by Alice in Chains (1992), which Ned Raggett described as the band's "own particular approach" to the style,<sup id="cite_ref-amrooster_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-amrooster-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "<a href="/wiki/Black_Hole_Sun" title="Black Hole Sun">Black Hole Sun</a>" by Soundgarden (1994)<sup id="cite_ref-kerranglaw_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kerranglaw-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have been described using this term, and songs in its subgenre <a href="/wiki/Post-grunge" title="Post-grunge">post-grunge</a> included ballads.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latin_ballad">Latin ballad</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Latin_ballad" title="Latin ballad">Latin ballad</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Luismiguelcomplices2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Luismiguelcomplices2.jpg/200px-Luismiguelcomplices2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Luismiguelcomplices2.jpg/300px-Luismiguelcomplices2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Luismiguelcomplices2.jpg/400px-Luismiguelcomplices2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="553" data-file-height="362" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Luis_Miguel" title="Luis Miguel">Luis Miguel</a> in Mexico City</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Latin_ballad" title="Latin ballad">Latin ballad</a> refers to the ballad derived from <a href="/wiki/Bolero" title="Bolero">bolero</a> that originated in the early-1960s in Latin America and Spain. </p><p>One of the most well-known Latin ballad singers of the 1970s and 1980s was <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Jos%C3%A9" title="José José">José José</a>. Known as "El Principe de La Cancion" (The Prince of the Song), he sold over 40 million albums in his career and became a huge influence to later ballad singers such as <a href="/wiki/Cristian_Castro" title="Cristian Castro">Cristian Castro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alejandro_Fern%C3%A1ndez" title="Alejandro Fernández">Alejandro Fernández</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Ned" title="Nelson Ned">Nelson Ned</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Mijares" title="Manuel Mijares">Manuel Mijares</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lupita_D%27Alessio" title="Lupita D'Alessio">Lupita D'Alessio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Threnody" title="Threnody">Threnody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torch_song" title="Torch song">Torch song</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Irish_ballads" title="List of Irish ballads">List of Irish ballads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rock_ballads" class="mw-redirect" title="List of rock ballads">List of rock ballads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slow_dance" title="Slow dance">Slow dance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-M._Curtis,_1987_p._236-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-M._Curtis,_1987_p._236_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-M._Curtis,_1987_p._236_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCurtis1987" class="citation book cs1">Curtis, James M. 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music">Africa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afrobeats" title="Afrobeats">Afrobeats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moroccan_pop" title="Moroccan pop">Moroccan</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_popular_music" title="American popular music">American</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Argentina#Popular_music" title="Music of Argentina">Argentine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%BAsica_popular_brasileira" title="Música popular brasileira">Brazilian (MPB)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brega_pop" title="Brega pop">Brega pop</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_pop" title="Latin pop">Latin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tropipop" title="Tropipop">Tropipop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_pop_music" title="Mexican pop music">Mexican</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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