tags: music genre
Pop music
Pop music, or simply "Pop" is a genre of [popular music] that originated in its modern form during the mid 1950s in the US and UK.
- Wikipedia claims a distinction between the terms popular music and pop music, although they are often used interchangeably
- popular music refers to all music that is popular, and includes many differing styles
- pop music is a specific style of music that happens to be "popular"
- also distinguishable from "chart music"
Pop music often borrows elements from other styles, including rock, urban ([hip-hop]), dance, Latin, and country.
Some scholars and professionals characterize pop music as a product of [capitalism], commercialization, enterprise, and profit.
- professionally produced and packaged - differs from "indie pop"?