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What is pop?
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Be My Head on 11 Apr 2009, 12:53 ---You said it yourself, because they're all songs
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So, where does instrumental stuff fall? Mogwai, for example. They probably have a few albums that they don't sing at all on (I am really bad at remembering that sort of thing), so they aren't songs. But then again, classical music can have vocal parts, as can jazz. Could you possibly make a bit more solid, well-defined description?
Either way, I disagree with you, using the term pop to cover everything besides jazz, classical, avant-garde, and experimental music is a really terrible idea, it's like deciding to call all non-equilateral triangles an isosceles.
Hat:
--- Quote from: Avec on 11 Apr 2009, 12:30 ---When I think of pop, I think of upbeat songs with clear percussion.
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Lines:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 11 Apr 2009, 03:33 ---The real question is: how many listeners are required to make a music truly "popular"?
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The same amount of licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop.
Pop to me is the family friendly, upbeat stuff on the radio that generally a lot of people like and this includes past decades as well as the current one.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 12 Apr 2009, 02:40 ---Either way, I disagree with you, using the term pop to cover everything besides jazz, classical, avant-garde, and experimental music is a really terrible idea, it's like deciding to call all non-equilateral triangles an isosceles.
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Not really, because originally it meant 'popular,' or mainstream, which classical, avant-garde, jazz and experimental aren't, theoretically.
Cadeonehalf:
The same can't be said for Avant-Garde, but Classical was all the rage from the 17th to 19th century, and Jazz was THE American popular music in the 1930s-40s.
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