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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> | |||
[[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).]] | |||