Timeline of Music in the United States (1970-Present)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This is a timeline of music in the United States from 1970 to the present. Armadillo World Headquarters opens in Austin, Texas. It will become a major venue for the music of Austin, especially the local country scene. Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath and Paranoid codify the genre later known as heavy metal music; though Black Sabbath is British, heavy metal will become an important American phenomenon in the next decade. Charlie Gillett's The Sound of the City is the first comprehensive history of R&B and rock.