RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

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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