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| | Name | Beat | | Stylistic origins | British rock and roll, Celtic music (merseybeat), doo wop, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, skiffle, soul | | Cultural origins | Late 1950s to early 1960s in the United Kingdom | | Typical instruments | Guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals, keyboards, harmonica | | Mainstream popularity | Mainstream popularity in early 1960s | | Derivative forms | Garage rock, power pop, pop punk, Britpop, yé-yé, psychedelic rock, group sounds, Wong shadow, string (Thai pop) | | Subgenres | Freakbeat | | Regional scenes | Merseybeat (Merseyside)
Brumbeat (Birmingham)
Nederbeat (Netherlands)
Tottenham Sound (London) | | Other topics | British Invasion, Carnaby Street, Swinging London |
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Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat (for bands from Liverpool beside the River Mersey) is a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. Beat music is a fusion of rock and roll, doo wop, skiffle, R&B and soul. The beat movement provided most of the bands responsible for the British invasion of the American pop charts in the period after 1964, and provided the model for many important developments in pop and rock music, including the format of the rock group around lead, rhythm and bass guitars with drums.
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