| Pop music is a genre of popular music notable | | | | The Beatles Hey Jude was an epic 7 minutes in |
| from classical or art music and from folk | | | | length. However, in many cases, if the song |
| music. The term indicates specific stylistic | | | | is abnormally long, an edited version is |
| qualities, but the genre also includes | | | | released for radio airplay such as in the |
| elements of rock, hip-hop, dance, and | | | | case of Don McLean's very famous American |
| country, making it a flexible musical form. | | | | Pie. It was edited down from its original 8 1 |
| The definition of pop music is purposefully | | | | 2 minutes length to just over 4 minutes for |
| flexible as the music that is identified as | | | | radio airplay. While on the other extreme, |
| pop is constantly changing.The expression pop | | | | some hit songs clocked in less than 2 minutes |
| music may also be used to refer to particular | | | | in length.Like other art forms that aim to |
| subgenres (within the pop music genre) that | | | | attract a mass audience (movies, television, |
| are referred to as soft rock and pop/rock. | | | | Broadway shows), pop music has been and |
| The pop music genre also often involves mass | | | | continues to be a melting pot that borrows |
| marketing and consumer-driven efforts by | | | | and absorb elements and ideas from a wide |
| major record companies and music labels, | | | | range of musical styles. Over the past five |
| which makes it an often-scorned genre by | | | | decades, pop music has been influenced and |
| non-mainstream musicians as they feel that | | | | incorporated genres of music like Rock, R&B |
| the quality of music suffers.The average | | | | in various ways. Most recently, Latin music |
| consumer of pop music is often identified to | | | | seems to be impacting pop music more |
| be in his or her teenage years, making it an | | | | significantly than at any point in the |
| important icon of youth culture. Pop music | | | | past.Although pop music continues to be a |
| has always been the source of numerous moral | | | | melting pot of styles, there is a genre of |
| panics, especially as many of the styles that | | | | pop music that claims to be pop music in its |
| influence it trickle up from minority groups | | | | purest form. This music, usually called pure |
| (racial, ethnic, sexual or class-based). This | | | | pop or power pop, typically consists of |
| is partly because youth culture itself is an | | | | relatively brief (not over 3 1/2 minutes) |
| object of social trepidation. It is tempting | | | | songs played on the standard electric guitar, |
| for anyone to confuse pop music with popular | | | | bass and drums with vocals that have a very |
| music. According to the New Grove Dictionary | | | | strong catchy chorus, or hook.In the 2000s, |
| of Music and Musicians, popular music is | | | | hip-hop blended in with pop music, is paving |
| identified as the music since | | | | the way for the multi platinum successes of |
| industrialization in the 1800's that is most | | | | artists like Nelly, Eminem, 50 Cent, |
| in line with the tastes and interests of the | | | | Ludacris, Ciara, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, |
| urban middle class.This would include an | | | | Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera, Gwen |
| extremely wide range of music from vaudeville | | | | Stefani and especially Britney Spears. |
| and minstrel shows to heavy metal. Pop music, | | | | Artists such as Mariah Carey and pop queen, |
| on the other hand, has primarily come into | | | | Madonna, presented comeback albums that |
| usage to describe music that evolved out of | | | | continued to make them rule the music charts |
| the rock n roll revolution of the mid 1950's | | | | and keep their titles.For the past 50 years |
| and continues in a definable path to | | | | the most successful musical styles on the pop |
| today.One of the steadiest elements of pop | | | | charts have continually changed and evolved |
| music since the 1950's is the pop song, which | | | | and times will tell as how much more popular |
| is not usually written, performed and | | | | they become in future.Author is a web master |
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| The basic form for pop music is the song and | | | | shows, Games, Antivirus, & Videos for |
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| there have been notable exceptions though. | | | | |