ecclesand
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What does the word 'Pop' mean to me? CRAP!
Originally Posted by DrBenway /img/forum/go_quote.gif This is the essence of the question I posed in starting this thread. It's perfectly legitimate to describe music as "pop" on the basis of how it is consumed, rather than what it sounds like. But if you look at 20 music reviews that use the word pop, 19 of them will clearly use the term as a way of describing the sound of the music under consideration, with the clear implication that "pop" is a style or genre, rather than a condition of its consumption. ... |
Originally Posted by bonehelm /img/forum/go_quote.gif It means someone who married my mom and gave birth to me. |
Originally Posted by Coltrane /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think it depends on the reviewer. Some jazz reviewers clearly have no idea what they are talking about, while some pop reviewers are very erudite and knowledgeable. Besides, knowing about tonal vs atonal or meter doesnt help much when pop music is generally 4/4 and very tonal anyways. Pop music is usually created for much different reasons than classical, so of course the writers are gonna focus on different aspects. |
Originally Posted by kerelybonto /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes, I know, but that's my point. Thinking of pop music as a style or genre of music is generally meaningless because the term then becomes so broad. The styles of music that constitute pop change often, and even if you single out a time and a place, you're probably still not going to be able to define pop as a single style in the way people think of styles of music[...]Why insist that pop is a style of music? Eric |