Popular comes from the latin ‘popularis’, which means ‘belonging to the people’.
In the commercial sense this may be true, as music is accessible to anyone to download, but then again corporations cling to copyright and some artists argue their ownership once it goes into public domain.
Through the years the specific term of popular music changes in people’s perceptions. Some people take it on surface value: Popular music is music that is popular. In this case it can go across the genres of rock, folk, indie and excreta. Others narrow popular music to a single genre of ‘pop’ music, which many people identify as a negative with less artistic value.
Shuker sums the concept up as ‘all popular music consists of a hyprid of musical traditions, styles and influence and is also an economic product which is invested with ideological significance by many of its consumers.’
Well to me music is music, people like what they like. What is deemed is popular is hard to pin down, as no one has the exact same music tastes and in my opinion this makes music more interesting :-D
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