Brill Building (genre)

Brill Building
The Brill Building in 2006
Stylistic origins	Pop[1][2] Tin Pan Alley[1][2][3] rock and roll[3] doo-wop[4] rhythm and blues[3] pop rock[2] Latin music[1]
Cultural origins	Late 1950s – early 1960s, New York City
Typical instruments	Guitar[2] strings[1]
Derivative forms	Soft rock[5] sunshine pop[6]
Other topics
Girl group teen idol

Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound)^[1] is a subgenre of pop music^[1] that took its name from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols during the early 1960s.^[2] The term has also become a metonym for the period in which those songwriting teams flourished.^[7] In actuality, most hits of the mid-1950s and early 1960s were written elsewhere.^[7]