Music A-Level
Post-1960 musical context
What Post-1960 musical context means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The time-bound definition of pop music as spanning from 1960 to the present, excluding music from the 1950s.
Topics that use Post-1960 musical context
- Area of study 2: Pop music (AQA A-Level)
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