Lounge music

Lounge music
Lounge music
Stylistic origins	Exotica; space age pop; jazz; bossa nova; cha-cha-cha; mambo; Polynesian music; swing; big band; easy listening;
Cultural origins	1950s, United States
Derivative forms	Ambient; chamber pop; chill-out music; downtempo; muzak; Shibuya-kei; vaporwave;

Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space. The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music-influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, and downtempo influences), while remaining thematically focused on its retro-space age cultural elements. The earliest type of lounge music appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, and was known as light music.

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