Western music swept the country and fed into both Japanese folk and high culture styles.
Militias implemented their own laws with abandon, threatening stores for displaying mannequins with bare shoulders or for selling Western music.
They are fascinated by Western music technology, not because it originates in the West, but because they believe they are pioneers of mankind.
The fact that his song is largely in Korean would make it an unlikely pick for any western music company as a potential hit.
The music follows on the success J-pop in the 1990s, which found a strong following in Asia but never crossed the Pacific, unable to break through the Western music market.
The team -- composed of Pablo Rodriguez Zivic, Favio Shifres and Guillermo Cecchi -- has developed an algorithm capable of identifying patterns across distinct periods of Western music based on semi-tones and notes.
"I started collecting just for the personal pleasure of being close to these icons of the greatest musical achievements in Western music, " said Kovner, who is also chairman of Juilliard's board.
Participants listened to four symphonies by composer William Boyce of the late Baroque period, which the researchers chose because they reflect Western music but were likely to be unfamiliar to subjects.
What Rabbi Luft objects to so vehemently is not just contemporary, western music - rock, rap or pop - but the use of modern instruments and beats in the tunes of orthodox singers like Lipa Schmeltzer.
Last month, Billboard annual series of top 21 musicians under the age of 21 listed K-pop star IU at 15th on the list which includes heavyweights in the western music business such as Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber.
Before Mr Khatami's election, the government had frowned on innocent-seeming pleasures like the theatre, western music and novel-reading, fearing that such art forms would subvert the austere Islamic order established in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution 20 years ago.
He and his friends poured over Western books, enjoyed Western classical music and even began to opt for Western-style toilets over Chinese ones.
Creativity in music is obviously still abundant and it's important to point out only Western pop music was included in the analysis, but Gran was never really into the progressive stuff anyway.
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Remarkably, some western classical music has been outlawed, blocked or otherwise interfered with on its own terms.
It is tempting to contrast the formal, intellectual way that much Western classical music expresses emotion with the mystical, organic way that we hear with Mambazo.
Western classical music was introduced into Japan about a century ago, and since then has become one of the West's most successful exports to that country.
After the finale, the audience and remember, Thais are not renowned for their fondness of Western classical music rose and gave the company a standing ovation.
Although Western classical music has boomed in China, Mr Ross reckons that orchestral playing in Beijing is not up to the standards of London, Paris or New York.
Just as Kandinsky turned his back on figuration, so did the atonal composers of the early 20th century, led by Arnold Schoenberg, abandon tonal harmony, the fundamental ordering principle on which all Western classical music had previously been based.
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He said he was happy with his daughter's western tastes in pop music and fashion, and had bought her western-style clothes.
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It is not meant to be representative of (Western) classical music.
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Music teachers there are in great demand and tend to focus only on Western classical or Eastern classical music.
But they were also responding by using modern technology to amplify the mood music of Western belief that Arabs too could create free societies.
While that may not match the hordes who flock to Glastonbury, it is still remarkable in a country where western-style rock music was all but unknown until about 20 years ago.
Its website offers content that runs the gamut of Bollywood and Indian pop music, Western chart toppers that have been remixed with Indian beats, celebrity gossip, and interviews and promotions like the Sugababes photo shoot.
The school specializes in Arabic instruments such as the kanoun, a triangular stringed instrument a little like a horizontal harp, and the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument similar to a lute, and also teaches Western classical instruments and music theory.
The phonemaker's attempt at increasing its exposure to the lucrative mobile music and gaming market is seen a key step for the company that made its mark in regions such as Western Europe with its music-focused sub-brand Walkman phones and camera-focuses Cybershot handsets.
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