{
  "name": "Beat",
  "description": "Emerged in the early 1960s in the United Kingdom, drawing on Rock & Roll and the late 1950s Skiffle revival in a simple guitar-band format with strong melodies.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/beat/",
  "parent": "Pop Rock",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 10,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Freakbeat",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/freakbeat/",
      "description": "Outgrowth of the Mod movement which combines elements of British Rhythm & Blues and Beat with studio effects common in Psychedelia such as fuzztones, flanging and chorus; often seen as a British relative of the American Garage Psych scene.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Freakbeat",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/freakbeat/",
      "description": "Outgrowth of the Mod movement which combines elements of British Rhythm & Blues and Beat with studio effects common in Psychedelia such as fuzztones, flanging and chorus; often seen as a British relative of the American Garage Psych scene.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Group Sounds",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/group-sounds/",
      "description": "Japanese bands in the mid-to-late 1960s who began performing a style of Beat primarily in English.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Group Sounds",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/group-sounds/",
      "description": "Japanese bands in the mid-to-late 1960s who began performing a style of Beat primarily in English.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jovem Guarda",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jovem-guarda/",
      "description": "1960s Brazilian youth-oriented Pop Rock, with romantic lyrics and influenced by Merseybeat and Rockabilly.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jovem Guarda",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jovem-guarda/",
      "description": "1960s Brazilian youth-oriented Pop Rock, with romantic lyrics and influenced by Merseybeat and Rockabilly.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Merseybeat",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/merseybeat/",
      "description": "Light, highly melodic style of Beat popular in the UK during the early 1960s, named due to the abundance of bands from Liverpool beside the River Mersey.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Merseybeat",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/merseybeat/",
      "description": "Light, highly melodic style of Beat popular in the UK during the early 1960s, named due to the abundance of bands from Liverpool beside the River Mersey.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nederbeat",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nederbeat/",
      "description": "Dutch answer to the British Beat boom of the 1960s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nederbeat",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nederbeat/",
      "description": "Dutch answer to the British Beat boom of the 1960s.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Beat"
    }
  ]
}