- Bebop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on harmonic structures and melodies. It developed in the early to mid-1940s.
- Ska is a music genre that was popular in Jamaica starting in 1966 and was a predecessor to reggae, which emerged around 1968.
- The 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The World According to Garp" has chapter titles that are named after musical works by Johann Sebastian Bach or puns related to his works.