Glenn Appell, David Hemphill. American popular music: a multicultural history. Belmont, CA: The Thomson Corporation, 2006, p. 423. ISBN 0155062298 [Consulta: 12 maig 2012]. «The 1980s brought the dawning age of the synthesizer in rock. Synth pop, a spare, synthesizer-based dance pop sound, was its first embodiment.»
