Pop

By Farhannah Sumar

What is Pop music?

❋Pop is a subgenre of popular music whose rhythm is the one which people can usually dance along with. Its song lyrics usually deal with emotions and talk about love, loss, emotion or dancing. Unlike other popular music genres pop songs are usually written by professional writers and popularized by singers.

History

❋By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of Music Television channels like MTV, which favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince who had a strong appeal.

❋Pop music has been dominated by the American and British music industries

More…❋ The Beatles helped to reshape

Western pop music and were the most successful band ever. Every album was a huge hit - Please Please Me (1963).

❋ They helped to create a distinctly British sound.

❋http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tV11acSRk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2q3FJTFgtk

❋Since the mid-1950's pop music has been identified as the music and the musical styles that are accessible to the widest audience. This means the music that sells the most copies, draws the largest concert audiences, and is played most often on the radio.

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