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	From about 1967, the term “pop music” was increasingly used in opposition to the term [[rock music]], a division that gave generic significance to both terms.<ref name=Gloag983>Kenneth Gloag in ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), {{ISBN\|0-19-866212-2}}, p. 983.</ref> While rock aspired to [[authenticity (philosophy)\|authenticity]] and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music,<ref name=Gloag983/> pop was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.<ref name=Warner2003>T. Warner, ''Pop Music: Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), {{ISBN\|0-7546-3132-X}}, pp. 3–4.</ref> According to British musicologist [[Simon Frith]], pop music is produced "as a matter of [[business\|enterprise]] not art", and is "designed to appeal to everyone" but "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". Frith adds that it is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward [...] and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative". It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers, and concert promoters) rather than being made from below ... Pop is not a [[DIY\|do-it-yourself]] music but is professionally produced and packaged".<ref name="Firth2001"/> {{clear}}		From about 1967, the term “pop music” was increasingly used in opposition to the term [[rock music]], a division that gave generic significance to both terms.<ref name=Gloag983>Kenneth Gloag in ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), {{ISBN\|0-19-866212-2}}, p. 983.</ref> While rock aspired to [[authenticity (philosophy)\|authenticity]] and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music,<ref name=Gloag983/> pop was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.<ref name=Warner2003>T. Warner, ''Pop Music: Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), {{ISBN\|0-7546-3132-X}}, pp. 3–4.</ref> According to British musicologist [[Simon Frith]], pop music is produced "as a matter of [[business\|enterprise]] not art", and is "designed to appeal to everyone" but "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". Frith adds that it is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward [...] and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative". It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers, and concert promoters) rather than being made from below ... Pop is not a [[DIY\|do-it-yourself]] music but is professionally produced and packaged".<ref name="Firth2001"/> {{clear}}

			==References==

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	[[File: Rolling stones - 11 luglio 2006 - san siro.jpg\|thumb\|left\|''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'' states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as [[the Rolling Stones]] (pictured here in a 2006 performance).]]		[[File: Rolling stones - 11 luglio 2006 - san siro.jpg\|thumb\|left\|''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'' states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as [[the Rolling Stones]] (pictured here in a 2006 performance).]]

			According to the website of ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', the term "pop music" "originated in [[United Kingdom\|Britain]] in the mid-1950s as a description for [[rock and roll]] and the new youth music styles that it influenced".<ref name=Grove>R. Middleton, et al., [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_gmo "Pop"], ''Grove music online'', retrieved 14 March 2010. {{Subscription required}} {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113160329/http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_gmo \|date=13 January 2011 }}</ref> ''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'' states that while pop's "earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience [...] since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus[ic], usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as [[The Beatles]], [[The Rolling Stones]], [[ABBA]], etc."<ref>"Pop", [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_t237 ''The Oxford Dictionary of Music''], retrieved 9 March 2010.{{Subscription required}} {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112170116/http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_t237 \|date=12 November 2017 }}</ref> ''Grove Music Online'' also states that "[...] in the early 1960s, [the term] 'pop music' competed terminologically with [[beat music]] [in England], while in the US its coverage overlapped (as it still does) with that of 'rock and roll'".<ref name=Grove/>

			From about 1967, the term “pop music” was increasingly used in opposition to the term [[rock music]], a division that gave generic significance to both terms.<ref name=Gloag983>Kenneth Gloag in ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), {{ISBN\|0-19-866212-2}}, p. 983.</ref> While rock aspired to [[authenticity (philosophy)\|authenticity]] and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music,<ref name=Gloag983/> pop was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.<ref name=Warner2003>T. Warner, ''Pop Music: Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), {{ISBN\|0-7546-3132-X}}, pp. 3–4.</ref> According to British musicologist [[Simon Frith]], pop music is produced "as a matter of [[business\|enterprise]] not art", and is "designed to appeal to everyone" but "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". Frith adds that it is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward [...] and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative". It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers, and concert promoters) rather than being made from below ... Pop is not a [[DIY\|do-it-yourself]] music but is professionally produced and packaged".<ref name="Firth2001"/> {{clear}}

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	Although much of the music that appears on [[record chart]]s is seen as pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and [[Hook (music)\|hooks]], short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the [[verse–chorus form\|verse-chorus structure]]), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, [[urban contemporary\|urban]], [[dance music\|dance]], [[Latin music (genre)\|Latin]], and [[country music\|country]].		Although much of the music that appears on [[record chart]]s is seen as pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and [[Hook (music)\|hooks]], short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the [[verse–chorus form\|verse-chorus structure]]), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, [[urban contemporary\|urban]], [[dance music\|dance]], [[Latin music (genre)\|Latin]], and [[country music\|country]].

			==Definitions and etymology{{anchor\|Etymology}}==

			David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, and folk musics".<ref>D. Hatch and S. Millward, ''From Blues to Rock: an Analytical History of Pop Music'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987), {{ISBN\|0-7190-1489-1}}, p. 1.</ref>
			According to [[Pete Seeger]], pop music is "professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music".<ref name=pc1>{{Gilliland \|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19745/m1/ \|title=Show 1 – Play A Simple Melody: Pete Seeger on the origins of pop music}}</ref>
			David Boyle, a music researcher, states pop music as any type a music that a person has been exposed to by the mass media. <ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Boyle\|first=J. David\|last2=Hosterman\|first2=Glenn L.\|last3=Ramsey\|first3=Darhyl S.\|date=1981-04-01\|title=Factors Influencing Pop Music Preferences of Young People\|url=https://doi.org/10.2307/3344679\|journal=Journal of Research in Music Education\|language=en\|volume=29\|issue=1\|pages=47–55\|doi=10.2307/3344679\|issn=0022-4294}}</ref> Most individuals think that pop music is just the [[record chart\|singles charts]] and not the sum of all chart music. The music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including [[classical music\|classical]], [[jazz]], [[rock music\|rock]], and [[novelty song]]s. As a genre, pop music is seen to exist and develop separately.<ref>R. Serge Denisoff and William L. Schurk, ''Tarnished Gold: the Record Industry Revisited'' (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 3rd edn., 1986), {{ISBN\|0-88738-618-0}}, pp. 2–3.</ref> Therefore, the term "pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, designed to appeal to all, often characterized as "instant singles-based music aimed at teenagers" in contrast to rock music as "album-based music for adults".<ref name=Firth2001/>{{refn\|Musicologist Allan Moore surmises that the term "pop music" itself may have been popularized by [[Pop art]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Moore\|first=Allan F.\|title=Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6DeCwAAQBAJ\|year=2016\|publisher=[[Routledge]]\|isbn=978-1-317-05265-4}}</ref>}}

			Pop music continuously evolves along with the term's definition. According to music writer Bill Lamb, popular music is defined as "the music since industrialization in the 1800s that is most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class."<ref name="What Is Pop Music">{{Cite web \|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-pop-music-3246980\|title=What Is Pop Music?\|last = Lamb \|first =Bill\|website = ThoughtCo.\|date = 29 September 2018 }}</ref> The term "pop song" was first used in 1926, in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal".<ref name=OED>J. Simpson and E. Weiner, ''Oxford English Dictionary''(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989). {{ISBN\|0-19-861186-2}}, cf. pop.</ref> Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in [[country music\|country]], [[blues]], and [[hillbilly music]].<ref>D. Hatch and S. Millward, ''From Blues to Rock: an Analytical History of Pop Music'', {{ISBN\|0-7190-1489-1}}, p. 49.</ref>

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{{Infobox music genre
| name = Pop
| bgcolor = skyblue
| stylistic_origins = * [[Traditional pop]]<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/traditional-pop-ma0000002961/artists Traditional Pop, ''Allmusic.com'']. Retrieved 25 August 2016</ref>
* [[rock and roll]]<ref name=Grove/>
* [[Contemporary folk music|folk]]<ref name=pc1/>
| cultural_origins = Mid-1950s,<ref name=Firth2001/> United States and United Kingdom
| image =
| caption =
| derivatives = * [[Disco]]
* [[contemporary R&B]]
| subgenrelist =
| subgenres = * [[Art pop]]
* [[Brill Building (genre)|Brill Building]]
* [[bubblegum music|bubblegum]]
* [[dance-pop]]
* [[experimental pop]]
* [[hypnagogic pop]]
* [[New wave music|new wave]]
* [[operatic pop]]
* [[orchestral pop]]
* [[progressive pop]]
* [[sophisti-pop]]
* [[space age pop]]
* [[sunshine pop]]
* [[synth-pop]]
* [[teen pop]]
| fusiongenres = * [[Baroque pop]]
* [[country pop]]
* [[electropop]]
* [[folk-pop]]
* [[indie pop]]
* [[Latin pop]]
* [[noise pop]]
* [[pop punk]]
* [[pop-rap]]
* [[K-Pop]]
* [[C-Pop]]
* [[pop rock]]
* [[psychedelic pop]]
* [[reggae fusion]]
* [[smooth jazz]]
* [[smooth soul]]
| regional_scenes =
* [[Indian pop|India]]
* [[Indo pop|Indonesia]]
* [[Cantopop|Hong Kong]]
* [[Italian popular music#Contemporary Music|Italy]]
* [[J-pop|Japan]]
* [[Malaysian pop|Malaysia]]
* [[Mexican pop music|Mexico]]
* [[Moroccan pop|Morocco]]
* [[Pakistani pop music|Pakistan]]
* [[Pinoy pop|Philippines]]
* [[Russian pop|Russia]]
* [[Nordic popular music|Scandinavia]]
* [[Swedish pop music|Sweden]]
* [[Taiwanese pop|Taiwan]]
* [[Thai pop music|Thailand]]
* [[Turkish pop music|Turkey]]
* [[British pop music|United Kingdom]]
* [[American pop|United States]]
* [[V-pop|Vietnam]]
* [[Europop|Western Europe]]
| local_scenes =
| other_topics = * [[Avant-pop]]
* [[New Pop]]
* [[pop music automation]]
* [[poptimism]]
* [[rock music]]
}}
'''Pop''' is a genre of [[popular music]] that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name=Firth2001/> The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed [[rock and roll]] and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.

Although much of the music that appears on [[record chart]]s is seen as pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and [[Hook (music)|hooks]], short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the [[verse–chorus form|verse-chorus structure]]), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, [[urban contemporary|urban]], [[dance music|dance]], [[Latin music (genre)|Latin]], and [[country music|country]].