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This article presents information about various key terms and concepts beginning with the letter "g," related to popular music. The "garage" bands of the late 1960s, so called as exponents made the music in the garage or basement, were especially prominent in the United States, where they responded to the British invasion of the American market. A media studies term initially applied to describe how telegraph wire editors selected items for inclusion in local papers, "gatekeepers" became an established approach to analysing the way in which media workers select, reject, and reformulate material for broadcast or publication. "Gender" is the cultural differentiation of females from males, a signifying distinction, compared to sexual differentiation, which is a biological/physical difference. "Genre" can be basically defined as a category or type. A key component of textual analysis, genre is widely used to analyse popular culture texts, most notably in their filmic and popular literary forms.