Music of United Kingdom

I chose this topic because I’m very into music, in fact, I’m interested in all kind of music, but my favorite one is R&B (Rhythm and Blues). To be honest, I know a little bit about UK music, so that’s another reason why I picked up, to search information, know about the styles, and so on.

The UK has been a major exporter and source of musical innovation and its cultural basis has been from the history of UK, from church music, from Western culture, from folk music and instrumentation of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. With United States leading the popular music, UK had a Britain Invasion and with this invasion they created “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” and “Britpop”. And also, with this big invasion we can highlight a big and wonderful group: The Beatles.


Some of the styles of music that UK has had are Baroque music, Classical music, Folk music, English folk music, Northern Irish music, Scottish folk music and Welsh folk music. Now, the most recent style is the Modern British popular music, including Jazz, pop, and rock music.
Today UK has the world’s largest music industry with many British musicians.
This small but interesting paragraph lead us to a big question: In the future, will be still UK one of the world’s largest industry? Will be always The United States and UK the head of music?