Beat music

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a popular music genre, influenced by rock and roll, skiffle and traditional pop music that developed in and around Liverpool in the early 1960s, before expanding to the rest of the country and the United States by 1964. The beat style had a significant impact on popular music and youth culture, from 1960s movements such as garage rock, folk rock and psychedelic music to 1970s punk rock and 1990s Britpop.

Not to be confused with Big beat.
This article is about the genre of music developed in the UK. For the Apple Inc. music service, see Beats Music. For other musical beats, see Beat (disambiguation).
"Merseybeat" and "Mersey Sound" redirect here. For other uses of Merseybeat, see Merseybeat (disambiguation). For the poetry anthology, see The Mersey Sound (anthology).

Beat
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsLate 1950s – early 1960s, UK
Derivative forms
Subgenres
Freakbeat
Regional scenes
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