Music Genre

Pop

Pop music is a popular genre which have developed from the 1950’s. Pop music arise from rock and roll. The pop phrase was established around the mid 1920. There were many things took place in the 20’s which was modern day music industry, which includes rhythms, blue music and others.

The History of Pop

• The songs of music hall were the first real pop songs, written by professionals and widely performed for audiences. In Victorian era, when a performer needed a catchy, identifiable song.

• Things changed with the rise of recording, in the early 20th century. Music had the chance to be much more widely disseminated. Records, played at 78 rpm on wind-up gramophones(the first device for recording and replaying sound.), were relatively cheap.

• In America, that led to a breed of professional songwriters in New York who wrote pieces intended to be recorded to sell . They were largely cut, but did produce some beautiful material. London had its own same music business became centered on Denmark Street in the West End.

Sub Genre

• Country Pop(Country pop, with roots in both the

countrypolitan sound subgenre of Pop emerged in 1970’s)

• Dance Pop(Dance pop is dance oriented Pop music that

originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco)

• Indian Pop(Indian pop music often known as Indian-Pop, Hindi

Pop, Indipop or Indi-pop, refers to pop music in India.)

• Bubblegum Pop(Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music with

an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens

and teenagers.)

Target Audience

The target audience for pop music videos is most likely to be young people at ages of around 16-24. This is because the genre of music relates to partying which involves young adults(16-24). It is aimed mostly at teens and usually a majority of the time at young females.

Development of Pop

While various forms of commercially produced popular music had existed in Britain for several centuries, what is now understood as British pop music rise in the mid-to late 1950s as a softer alternative to rock music. While these basic elements of the genre have remained fairly constant, pop music has consumed influences from most other forms of popular music, particularly borrowing from the development of rock music. From the British Invasion of the 1960s, led by The Beatles, British pop music has alternated between acts and genres with national appeal and those with international success that have had a considerable impact on the development of the wider genre and on popular music in general.

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