Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the … 查看更多內容

Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have … 查看更多內容

Synth-pop has received considerable criticism and even prompted hostility among musicians and in the press. It has been described as "anaemic" and "soulless". … 查看更多內容

• Dance-pop
• Electropop
• Schaffel beat, triplet feel popularised in electronic music
• Synthwave
• Wonky pop 查看更多內容

Precursors
Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became … 查看更多內容

By the mid-1980s, synth-pop had helped establish the synthesizer as a primary instrument in mainstream pop music. It also influenced … 查看更多內容

• S. Borthwick and R. Moy (2004), Popular Music Genres: an Introduction, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
• P. Bussy (2004), Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music (3rd ed.), London: SAF
• T. Cateforis (2011), Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn … 查看更多內容