Calling all bigots (everyone here)
Chris Rossi
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Mon May 15 16:21:54 EDT 2006
I think what I'm getting out of this is a good working definition of pop
music would involve the hype factor. More about the packaging and
marketing and mass appeal than anything else. The more hype and
hysteria, the more something is pop. Screaming teenage mobs is a good
indicator. I dunno. Was Clara Rockmore mobbed by legions of adoring
fans? Did she show up in the tabloid press? These might be indicators
that she was pop. I suspect she was not, but I haven't done my research.
rossi
James Hepler wrote:
> So I was wondering, when was the birth of "pop" music?
> I was always of the perspective that pop music has
> always existed, that which was pop being determined by
> the taste of the time.
>
> For instance, I'm having a conversation with some kids
> and we're trying to figure out the earliest appearance
> of electronic instruments in pop music. My first
> inclination was to bring up Clara Rockmore's use of
> the theremin in the 20's and 30's.
>
> Many would consider that style of music to be
> classical. And there was other stuff being played
> that might be considered more popular at the time, but
> for some reason I stillc ling to the idea that those
> songs that Theremin and Rockmore played in the first
> years of the theremin count as use of electronic
> insturments in pop music.
>
> BTW, here's a site with some mp3's of Rockmore and
> Theremin playing, as well as several other
> thereministas.
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ru_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theremin.ru%2fdata%2findex.html
>
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