In the 1960s avant garde music was all the rage, and composers began to come in contact with percussion instruments from all over the world. Rock and roll developed in a deliberately anti-orthodox fashion, with a pulsating beat coming from percussion instruments. And, at the same time, jazz was exploring variations influenced by African, Latin, and Caribbean rhythms.
六○年代前衛音樂興起，作曲家開始大量接觸世界各地的打擊樂器；在英國興起的搖滾樂以反叛正統音樂出發，所使用的撼人節奏正是來自打擊樂，爵士樂多變的風格也受到非洲民族音樂的影響。