Calling all bigots (everyone here)
James Hepler
jameshepler at yahoo.com
Mon May 15 16:27:07 EDT 2006
I'm pretty sure she was caught grinding with paris
hilton's great grandmother in L.A. cerca 1928
--- Chris Rossi <nospam at spacelabstudio.com> wrote:
> 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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