- Guitar
... 0 hertz) hum. The introduction of the double-coil [[humbucker]] in the mid-1950s did away with this problem through the use of two coils, one of which is w ...
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- Bass guitar
Since the 1950s, the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in [[popula ...
... ion, and little further development of the instrument took place until the 1950s.
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- Rock music
... ] that developed during and after the 1960s. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s [[rock and roll]] and [[rockabilly]], which themselves evolved from [[rhyt ...
== 1950s-early 1960s ==
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- Tremolo arm
Since the regular appearance of mechanical tremolo arms in the 1950s, guitarists ranging from the gentle inflections of [[Chet Atkins]] to the ...
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- Gibson Les Paul
... ul''' is a solidbody [[electric guitar]] originally developed in the early 1950s. The Les Paul was originally designed by Ted McCarty and endorsed, named a ...
... only offered after Gibson's patent had expired. Over the years, authentic 1950s Les Pauls have become some of the most desirable and expensive electric gu ...
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- Bass drum
... z artists such as [[Ray McKinley]] and [[Ed Shaughnessy]] in the 1940s and 1950s, and popularized in the 1960s by rock drummers [[Ginger Baker]] of [[Cream ...
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- New York City
... y was a center of [[jazz]] in the 1940s, [[abstract expressionism]] in the 1950s and the birthplace of [[Hip hop culture|hip hop]] in the 1970s. The city's ...
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- Sydney
... ve [[Trams in Sydney|tram network]], which was progressively closed in the 1950s and 1960s. Most parts of the metropolitan area are served by buses, many o ...
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- Rome
... on|reconstruction and modernisation]]. It became a fashionable city in the 1950s and early 1960s, the years of ''[[la dolce vita]]'' ("the sweet life"), an ...
... oom. A construction boom also created a large number of suburbs during the 1950s and 1960s.
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- McDonald's
... ally themed restaurants also exist, such as the "Solid Gold McDonald's," a 1950s rock-and-roll themed restaurant.
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- Steven Van Zandt
... show that celebrates [[garage rock]] and similar rock sub-genres from the 1950s to the present day. As of December 2006, the show is heard on over 200 US ...
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- Rock and roll
|cultural_origins= [[United States]] in the period up to the [[1950s]]
|popularity= One of the best selling music forms since the 1950s
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- Gibson Guitar Corporation
... s, which were used and popularized by [[Charlie Christian]]. In the early 1950s, Gibson introduced its first solid-body electric guitar and its most popul ...
... stin, TX; 2007. p 74-85.</ref> The Les Paul was released in 1952. The late 1950s saw the introduction of the "[[humbucker]]" [[pickup (music)|pickup]], as ...
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- Tapping
Jimmie Webster made recordings in the 1950s using the method of two-handed tapping he described in 'Touch Method for E ...
... two-handed tapping technique was also known and occasionally used by many 1950s and 1960s Jazz guitarists such as [[Barney Kessel]] who was an early suppo ...
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- Phoneme
... nd was prominently challenged by Morris Halle and Noam Chomsky in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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- Atonality
... articularly 12-tone composition, was taken by avant-garde composers in the 1950s to be the foundation of the New Music, and led to [[serialism]] and other ...
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- Reality television
===1940s–1950s===
... practical jokes. <!-- Another early reality tv show was first aired in the 1950s. It featured a band leader and his family. The show actually started on th ...
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- Portland, Oregon
The steel industry's history in Portland predates [[World War II]]. By the 1950s, the steel industry became the city's number one industry for employment.< ...
Since the 1950s, if not earlier, Portland has strongly favored the [[United States Democra ...
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