RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

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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