Editing Music of the United States (section)

===Pop music===
{{Main|Pop Music}}
[[File:Madonna_à_Nice_26.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Madonna]] has been nicknamed the "Queen of Pop" since the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/oct/28/madonna-pop-art|first=Alan|last=McGee|author-link=Alan McGee|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=August 20, 2008|access-date=April 17, 2013|title=Madonna Pop Art}}</ref> She is noted for her continual reinvention and versatility in music and visual presentation.]]

[[Pop Music]] is a genre of [[popular music]] that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the [[United States]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. 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. [[Bing Crosby]] was one of the first artists to be nicknamed "King of Song" or "King of Popular Music". [[Indie pop]], which developed in the late 1970s, marked another departure from the glamour of contemporary pop music, with guitar bands formed on the then-novel premise that one could record and release their own music without having to procure a [[record contract]] from a major label.<ref>{{Citation|title=Twee as Fuck: The Story of Indie Pop |first=Nitsuh |last=Abebe |work=Pitchfork Media |date=24 October 2005 |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6176-twee-as-fuck/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224073504/http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6176-twee-as-fuck |archive-date=24 February 2011 }}</ref> By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like [[MTV]], which "favoured those artists such as [[Michael Jackson]] and [[Madonna]] who had a strong visual appeal". The 1980s are commonly remembered for an increase in the use of [[digital recording]], associated with the usage of [[synthesizer]]s, with [[synth-pop]] music and other [[electronic music|electronic]] genres featuring non-traditional instruments increasing in popularity.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/29/arts/rap-music-brash-and-swaggering-enters-mainstream.html | work=The New York Times | first=Glenn | last=Collins | title=Rap Music, Brash And Swaggering, Enters Mainstream | date=1988-08-29}}</ref> By 2014, pop music worldwide had been permeated by [[electronic dance music]]. In 2018, researchers at the [[University of California, Irvine]], concluded that pop music has become 'sadder' since the 1980s. The elements of [[happiness]] and brightness have eventually been replaced with the electronic beats making the pop music more 'sad yet danceable'.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thefader.com/2018/05/16/sadness-in-pop-music-study|title=New study finds pop music has gotten extremely depressing but also more fun to dance to|work=The FADER|access-date=2018-05-21|language=en}}</ref>