Austropop

Austropop is pop music from Austria, which came into use in the late 1960s, but had its heyday in the 1970s and early and up until the mid-1980s. Austropop comprises several musical styles, from traditional pop music to rock, and it also sometimes includes traditional folk elements such as yodeling. Austropop artists usually distinguish themselves from German genres by using decidedly Austrian dialects for their lyrics. For example, Neue Deutsche Welle does not count as Austropop, as not only do the artists originate from Germany, but their lyrics are also in Standard German.