Title: Popular music
First published: 2004
Description: The term "popular music" indicates all musical forms that are easy to listen to, not committed and do not need particular ability to be enjoyed. Produced by a specific area of the cultural industry to be commercialized and put on the market with appropriate issues, it is the integrating part of the cultural industry scene in all its complex — from the live shows to the films, television and radio formats — representing, in perennial synergy with the same cultural industry, the "sound track" of the industrial and post-industrial era. While music and songs have an ancient cultural history — except singular and exceptional experiments, besides the process of immediate and temporary performances — the technology that supports its reproduction is instead relatively recent.
Subjects: Popular music, History and criticism, Music trade, History, Sound, Recording and reproducing, Mass media and music
LC classification: ML