Complex sentence: Though influences on the genre can be traced as far back as the 1940s, modern dream pop, by and large, originated in the United Kingdom in the mid- 1980s-the term, however, was used almost exclusively in the United States.
Split into simpler sentences: Though influences on the genre can be traced as far back as the 1940s, modern dream pop, by and large, originated in the United Kingdom in the mid- 1980s. The term, however, was used almost exclusively in the United States.