Introduction of Pop Music
July 15th, 2009 | 
Author: There is no set definition available for pop music. A variation of word popular music, pop music has defined the music industry greatly. Pop music has always identified to be aimed at the youth market and have represented itself as a soft alternative to famous rock music of the 1950’s, the golden days of Elvis Presley.
Most of musicologists associate certain attributes with pop music that separates it as a distinct genre. These include orientation towards a single market and songs that are individual. Also, rather than performing live there is an emphases on recorded performance. Technology greatly impacts composition of song rather the musical abilities of the musician. There is a prevailing artificiality or craftsmanship over artistic values. We find unimportant or simple themes in the songs. The songs are thus more appealing to general population. We also find a tendency to follow existing practices and fashionable trends over progressing developments.
Electronic jingles and related sound effects have invaded the life of millions every day via the media of radio and television since the mid-1960. These ephemera, while familiarizing the general public with the nature of synthesized sounds, have generally debased these sources to the level of advertising aid. Such a widely recognized application, however, is only one step removed in the public consciousness from the culture of rock and pop music, which uses electronic music to broaden a mass appeal. Pop music has been greatly influenced from other genres of popular music. This includes sentimental ballad, Jazz, soul music and recently rap. This is further impacted by the cultural and regional musical variations of the country where pop music is sung.
Pop music have also many sub genres which include Avant-pop, Baroque pop, Bastard pop, Bubblegum pop, Dance-pop, Electropop, Indie pop, Noise pop, Operatic pop, Power pop, Sophisti-pop, Space age pop, Sunshine pop, Synthpop and Teen pop . Pop music has also been integrated with other musical forms and known fusion genres are country pop, disco, dream pop, house-pop, jangle pop, pop punk, pop rap, pop rock, psychedelic pop, techno-pop and urban pop.
A very recent pop icon Michael Jackson died leaving millions of pop music fans sad. Michael was idolized as King of Pop as he gave pop music a new vigor through innovative musical fitches and technological beats. He merged disco and pop in something that is still a sensation topping pop charts around the world. And still for the time to come, we find this music beating with common man’s heart.