Talk:Light music

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message: Um, this "dubious-discuss" tag was added by User:Kintetsubuffalo, but without explaining why. I'm assuming the problem is that there are lots of other countries which have "light music" traditions, but as far as I know they're not referred to as "light music" - i.e. on the continent, they're known as "salonmusic" or in the U.S. they're often called "Pops music". As far as I know, the UK is the only country which has the distinct type of music discussed at length in the rest of the article, i.e. the Coates tradition. So, because it wasn't added with discussion, I'm going to remove it, but I'd be interested to hear other points of view. It would be easy to change. Rob (talk) 23:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It might not be dubious, but it would perhaps be good to add a ref to it. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ (talk) 00:07, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

text: No-no-no, "Pops music" can be confused with "pop" genre. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 09:33, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
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message: I love everything UK—but how can this be considered "mainly British" music [lead paragraph]? It was tremendously popular and influential in the U.S. as well, where American light-music artists were seen and heard everywhere. This music practically created the basis of American culture of the late '40s and early '50s, subsequent to the Big Band era.
Celebrity pianists (e.g. Eddie Duchin, Carmen Cavallaro, Liberace) held particular sway in U.S. light music, yet the word "piano" doesn't appear once in this article. (BTW, I found this page by following the "light music" link in the Carmen Cavallaro page.)
Does this genre have another WP article under a different name, where it's given more than an Anglo focus? – AndyFielding (talk) 09:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right that this article could easily be called "British Light music" or "Light orchestral music", but each country has a particular name for similar genres of music, for example in Germany it's called "salonmusick", which really is mostly piano music. I suppose the catch-all term Easy listening applies to pianists like Liberace, in the same way it does to Richard Clayderman in Europe. At least retrospectively, though, "Light music" as a genre seems to be applied to original compositions rather than arrangements (so similar to arrangers like Mantovani, Percy Faith etc) Rob (talk) 19:16, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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message: The See Also section contains a link to Electric Light Orchestra. This is very odd - ELO were a pop/rock band who used some classical instruments in their recordings. They were nothing whatsoever to do with the Light Music genre. --Ef80 (talk) 22:10, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
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