Abstract
Popular music is a category of music that shares a number of aspects. These include musical aesthetics, style, and genre; commercial-industrial context; patterns of production, distribution, and consumption; and of issues of taste and perceived quality. Given this complexity, while broad patterns and tendencies are identifiable, issues as to whether a piece of music can be categorized as popular do not so much derive from a common sense interpretation of the adjective, whereby popular might be understood to represent something that reaches and is appreciated by large audiences, as an assessment based on a particular concatenation of the previously outlined factors.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 2 |
| Editors | William Forde Thompson |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Pages | 883-887 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781452283029 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- popular music
- social aspects