Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

The first electronic instruments were also created during this decade, and it led to both the straps easily could
have with a piano-like instrument on tours (which widened soundstage), and partly to a whole new type of
music using only electronic instruments was born (synth music). The wimp known early examples of the
latter type was created by the German group Kraftwerk with extremely monotonous songs like "Autobahn",
"Trans Europe Express" and "The Robots". In the early eighties, more easygoing synth music emerged with
groups like Alphaville (1982 -, "Big in Japan", "Forever Young"), Wham (1981-1986, 'Wake Me Up Before
You Go-Go", "Careless Whisper" ), Soft Cell (1979 -, performed "Tainted Love"), Depeche Mode (1980 -,
“Just can not Get Enough", "Master and Servant") and The Human League (1977 -,"Do not You Want Me").
Later styles like grunge (including Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam), hip-hop (broke through in the mid-
1980s, with groups like Run DMC and Public Enemy) and rap were introduced.
Today, the supply of, and the means to listen to, music are enormously greater than ever before in history.
What allows the common man of today, in contrast to previous generations, to listen to music more often
and also while they are doing other things. But despite this, many still go to live performances
(approximately every seventh person in Sweden sometime during a twelve month period go to a classical
concert or opera, and nearly a third go at least one pop-music concert (Kulturvanor i Sverige 1987-2009,
Statens konstråd, Stockholm, Sweden)).
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