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(en) Glenn Appell, David Hemphill, American Popular Music: A Multicultural History, Belmont, CA, Thomson Wadsworth, (ISBN0155062298, lire en ligne), The 1980s brought the dawning age of the synthesizer in rock. Synth pop, a spare, synthesizer-based dance pop sound, was its first embodiment..
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