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Definition: Popular Music |
Popular MusicNoun1. Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Popular MusicSynonym: popular music genre (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Popular music, sometimes abbreviated to pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of contemporary musical styles broadly popular (ergo the term). A narrower sense of the term, usually "pop music", covers mainstream music that does not fall into any other convenient style such as jazz or hip hop. In the broader sense, "popular music" means any sort of music intended for mass consumption and propagated over the radio and similar media. For the varieties of popular music in this sense, see the list below.
A defining characteristic of popular music (in the broader sense) is that it is the product of the modern business enterprise, and is disseminated for the purpose of earning a profit. Executives and employees of popular music businesses try to select and cultivate the music that will have the greatest success with the public, and thus maximimize the profits of their firm. In this respect, popular music differs from traditional folk music, which is created by ordinary people for their own enjoyment; and much classical music, which was originally created to serve the purposes of the Church or for the entertainment of the nobility.
Although the controlling forces of popular music are business enterprises, young people who aspire to become popular musicians are certainly not always driven by the profit motive. Rather, they often want to find an outlet for their sense of expression and creativity, or simply to have fun. Historically, the conflicting motives of business people and musicians has been a source of tension in the popular music industry.
Many people play popular music together with their friends, often in garages and basements, on a casual amateur basis. This activity is one of the most widespread forms of participatory music-making in modern societies. As participatory music, "garage bands" are a new development in traditional folk music, which (where it survives) is likewise performed by ordinary people for enjoyment. The difference is that amateur performers of popular music are well acquainted with the expert performances that they hear on recordings, and often try to emulate them. In the past, folk music had few professional experts and was spread by word of mouth and by songsheets, although today folk music is the subject of considerable scholarly study and is widely available on recordings.
A list of current performers of popular music can be found at:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Popular music."
Crosswords: Popular Music |
| English words defined with "popular music": ballad maker, ballroom music, band ♦ dance band, dance music, dance orchestra, danceroom music, disc jockey, disco, discotheque, disk jockey, dj ♦ Elvis Aron Presley, Elvis Presley ♦ Gospel, gospel singing ♦ hop ♦ intro ♦ jazz ♦ kwela ♦ macumba ♦ popular music genre, Presley ♦ record hop, reggae, rock, rock and roll, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, rock-and-roll, rock'n'roll, Rogue's march ♦ skiffle, songster, songwriter ♦ Tin Pan Alley. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "popular music": ARTIST AND REPERTOIRE MANAGER ♦ filk ♦ HOUR ♦ IBM 1620 ♦ Monday Pops ♦ Other Interests ♦ Sinclair Research. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Live from Studio 8H: 100 Years of America's Popular Music (1981) | |
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Economic History | Panama | Lively salsa--a mixture of Latin American popular music, rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock--is a Panamanian specialty, and Ruben Blades its best-known performer. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "popular music": popular music genre. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
popular music | 255 |
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| Language | Translations for "popular music"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail), ポ"ュラー音楽 (American submarine, cross of a tomato and a potato, Polaris, Polaroid Camera, pomato, Pomeranian, poplar, poplin, popularism, popularity, population, pot-pourri), 俗調 (vulgar music), 俗学 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぞくがく (worldly music), ぞくちょう (head of a family, patriarch, vulgar music), ポ"ュラーお"がく, ポ"ュラーミュージック . (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | opularpay usicmay popüler müzik, pop müzik (pop, pop music). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-m-o-p-p-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: miraculous. | |
-3 letters: crapulous, piclorams, piroplasm, proclaims. | |
-4 letters: apiculus, clamours, muscular, oilcamps, opuscula, picloram, populism, primulas, proclaim, puparium, ramulous, solarium, spicular, spiculum. | |
-5 letters: carious, carolus, clamors, clamour, copalms, coppras, copular, copulas, cupolas, cuprous, cuprums, cupular, curiosa, curious, curiums, lipomas, morulas, mucosal, musical, oculars, oilcamp, oilcups, oralism, oscular, osculum, parlous, picaros, plasmic, poplars, popular, priapus, primula. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 70 75 6C 61 72 4D 75 73 69 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110000 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01001101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o p u l a r   M u s i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0070 0075 006C 0061 0072 004D 0075 0073 0069 0063 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081828778678424787857569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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