Editing Pop music (section)

==Definitions and etymology{{anchor|Etymology}}==
[[David Hatch]] and Stephen Millward describe pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, and folk music".<ref>D. Hatch and S. Millward, ''[[iarchive:frombluestorocka0000hatc|From Blues to Rock: an Analytical History of Pop Music]]'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987), {{ISBN|0-7190-1489-1}}, p. 1.</ref>
David Boyle, a music researcher, states pop music as any type of music that a person has been exposed to by the mass media.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Boyle|first1=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|jstor=3344679|s2cid=145122624|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, ''[[iarchive:tarnishedgoldrec0000deni|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 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|access-date=4 November 2018|archive-date=17 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417032933/https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-pop-music-3246980|url-status=live}}</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, ''[[iarchive:oxfordenglishdic0000unse a3t6|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).]]

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 ''[[iarchive:isbn 9780198662129|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, ''[[iarchive:popmusictechnolo0000warn|Pop Music: Technology and Creativity: Trevor Horn and the Digital Revolution]]'' (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), {{ISBN|0-7546-3132-X}}, pp.&nbsp;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&nbsp;(...) Pop is not a [[do-it-yourself]] music but is professionally produced and packaged".<ref name="Firth2001"/> {{clear}}