Pop music biography
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Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music. The term does not refer specifically to a single genre or sound, and its meaning is different depending on the time and place. Within popular music, "pop music" is often distinguished from other subgenres by stylistic traits such as a danceablerhythm or beat, simple melodies and a repeating structure which are reminiscent of the songs of vocalists such as Karen Carpenter and Roberta Flack. Pop song lyrics are often emotional, relating to love or dancing.
Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R&B, jazz, electronic, and sometimes folk music and various other styles. For example, in the s–s pop music drew influence mainly from jazz, beginning in the s from rock and rhythm and blues (R&B), and since the s, from
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Pop music
Genre of music
This article is about a specific music genre. For popular music in general, see Popular music. For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation).
"Pop song" redirects here. For other uses, see Pop Song.
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mids in the United States and the United Kingdom.[3] During the s and s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. Rock and pop music remained roughly synonymous until the late s, after which pop became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.
Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, urban, dance, Latin, and country.
The terms popul
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(These are excerpts from my book "A History of Popular Music")
Post-war Pop Music in the USA
USA: After Tin Pan Alley
TM, ®, Copyright © Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.From the moment that it became big business, pop music came largely from Tin Pan Alley's publishing houses. Tin Pan Alley thrived on the opera, ragtime, cakewalk, foxtrot and show tunes. As the latter came to represent more and more of the songwriter's business, in the s Tin Pan Alley moved north, near the Broadway theaters, between 42nd and 49th street. Unfortunately for them, before World War II the marknad came to be dominated by the "Big Bands", that accounted for almost 85% of the best-sellers between and Big bands tended to perform the music written by the bandleader, thus the publishing house were the real losers.
Surprisingly, World War II fostered an economic boom and, indirectly, helped the music industry develop in different directions. It was during the war that Bing Crosby's Whi