Monday, 24 January 2011


Popular music can be classified as any genre of music that has a wide appeal amongst the general public of a society dominated by urban culture and advanced technology. In the 19th century, popular music was accepted by the society as synonym for good. When we speak of popular music, we speak of music that is commercially oriented (Robert Burnet: The Globe Juk box, pg 35). Commercial in terms of having profits rather than artistic or other value as a primary aim. Every popular music output involves a piece of technology for its production. According to Nesun Dorma ‘Luciano Povorotti’ he suggested that popular music is what ‘lots’ of people like. The main definition given by Roy Shuker ‘understanding popular music’ pg 7, states that; essesntially, all popukar music consist of a hybrid of musical traditions styles and influence and is also an economic product which is inverted with ideological significance by many of its consumers

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