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  • From: Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Calling all bigots (everyone here)
  • Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:21:54 -0400

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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