Music in the UK

The United Kingdom has always been a major exporter as well as importer of music. It has influenced and has been influenced by many different kinds of music like church music, Western music and old traditional folk music, while at the same time continental developments have had an impact on its form too. Musicians from the British Isles developed some different kinds of music, such as Celtic chant, Contenance Angloise, rota (a kind of vocal round where voices enter each at a time), and the carol in the medieval era.

The Baroque music was late arriving to England due to trends in the UK and developments in music. Folk music in the UK also has traces of Jamaican and Indian music and it flourished until the era of the Industrialization when different types of music began to become popular. This led to two folk revivals; one in the 19th century and the other one in the mid 20th century.

Popular music began to spread in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in the 1930s British dance bands were created due to the American Jazz. These British dance bands were played on the radio as well as during social occasions.

In the 20th century influence from the United States altered the form of music in the UK once more, which led to the explosion of the British Invention. This meant that pop and rock bands from the UK, such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, became popular in the USA and had a major impact on the music industry there.

Source: http://www.england.org.za/england-music.php#.ULPO4eQ3s3g