, often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of
Japanese rock music
, sometimes abbreviated to , is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American rock, American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands in Japan performed what is called group sounds, with lyrics almost exclusively in English. Folk rock b ...
which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese ''
kayōkyoku
is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop. ''The Japan Times'' described ''kayōkyoku'' as "standard Japanese pop" or "Shōwa period, Shōwa-era pop".
''Kayōkyoku'' represents a blend of Western and Japanese musical s ...
'' music and Western rock music.
Their music production techniques were regarded as playing a pioneering role in modern Japanese popular music.
Group sounds arose following the
Beatles performance at the Budokan in 1966, and was strongly influenced by British
beat music
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music Music genre, genre that developed around Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from British rock and roll, British and Music of the United St ...
of the 1960s.
Group sounds acts included the
Tigers, the
Tempters, the
Spiders, the
Mops
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, and the
Golden Cups.
[ The movement peaked in late 1967 when Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets won the Japan Record Award.]
See also
* Music of Japan
In Japan, music includes a wide array of distinct genres, both traditional and modern.ref> The word for "music" in Japanese is 音楽 (''ongaku''), combining the kanji 音 ''on'' (sound) with the kanji 楽 ''gaku'' (music, comfort). Japan is the ...
* J-pop
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in trad ...
* Visual kei
* Japanese hip hop
* Japanese jazz
* Japanese reggae
Japanese reggae is reggae music originating from Japan. The first reggae band to perform in Japan was The Pioneers who toured in 1975. However it was not until 1979, when Jamaican singer Bob Marley visited Japan on holiday that reggae would gain ...
* Japanese ska
* List of Japanese rock bands
* Enka
is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern ''enka'', however, is a relatively recent musical form which adopts a more traditional musical style in its vocalism than ''ryūkōka'' music, pop ...
* Ryūkōka
is a Japanese music genre, musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the East Asian cultural sphere, sinic reading of ''hayariuta'', used for commercial music of Edo period, Edo Period. Therefore, ...
References
External links
Cutie Morning Moon
- Dedicated to Japanese 1960s garage punk
Showapop
- Group Sounds Record & CD articles in English
- Provides Information Mostly About Garage Bands From Outside the United States
Rock music genres
Japanese styles of music
Pop music genres
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