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popular music – any music which is popular within a specific area. E.g. calypso/soca in Southern Caribbean, Bollywood music in India.
Pop music – an American created genre with defined modes of production and operation.
Pop music’s ubiquity has ultimately led to it influencing all ‘popular’ worldwide expressions.
The key to the production is the product.
The key to the product is differentiation.
Pop music is dictated by market forces.
Media access is essential.
Ragtime and Minstrel songs: 1st mass produced Pop music form.
R.T originally an Afro-American folk form re-interpreted and consumed by wider community.
However, lacked image association.
Pop music is an INDUSTRY and is closely associated with business, product, mass, industry, image and media.
Pop music borrows mode of operation from industry and many of same practices.
An A-American musical expression popular in Southern and Mid-Western states in 30’s and 40’s.
Kansas City, Oklahoma, St. Louis.
Music was dominated by A-Americans and was made for dancing.
Frequently featured vocalists.
R&B’s performance practices and musical content was reconfigured.
Southern record producers sought white talent to perform these R+B numbers.
Bill Haley and the Comets had 1st “R&B” hit with Rock around the clock.
Teenage Pop music of the 50s.
Used new mediums such as television
Used the newly invented electric guitar-Fender Stratocaster.
Elvis was the prototype of the Pop artist.
After his appearance on Ed Sullivan show, became a Pop phenom.
T.V performances drew more than president’s speech.
1958 - Sold more than 20 million dollars worth of Elvis merchandise.
Baraka, Amiri. Blues People: Negro Music in White America. New York: W. Morrow, 1963. Print.
Starr, Larry, and Christopher A. Waterman. American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to Mp3. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.
