The music of the 1970's in America used symphony instruments and presented a diversion from the Rock and Roll of the '50s and '60s with, instead, the use of Strings and classical music arrangements in Popular music that was more akin to classical symphonic music than to American Jazz, Motown, gospel, Rock and Roll or Big band music. The music of Barry White is a key example.

  The music of the 1970's in America used symphony instruments and presented a diversion from the Rock and Roll of the '50s and '60s with,  instead,  the use of Strings and  classical music arrangements in Popular music that was more akin to classical symphonic music  than to American Jazz, Motown, gospel, Rock and Roll or Big band music.   The music of Barry White is a key example.