1. Thisresearchintopopularmusichas
suggestedtome that performance
type musicvideosare goodfor pop
musicas ‘popbandsusuallyhave
singers,guitarists,keyboardplayers
and percussists’.Thishasinspired
me to include these musical
instrumentsinmymusicvideo.
Popmusictakesovera wide spread
of the musiccharts. The charts
measuresthe popularityof asong.
HeadFull Of Dreamsreached
number2 in the charts.
Wikipedia-
Pop musichas beendominatedbythe Americanand(fromthe mid-1960s)
Britishmusicindustries,whose influence hasmade popmusicsomethingof an
international monoculture,butmostregionsandcountrieshave theirownform
of popmusic, sometimesproducinglocal versionsof widertrends,andlending
themlocal characteristics.Some of these trends(forexample Europop)have
had a significantimpactof the developmentof the genre
Accordingto Grove Music Online,"Western-derivedpopstyles,whether
coexistingwithormarginalizingdistinctivelylocal genres,have spread
throughoutthe worldandhave come to constitute stylisticcommon
denominatorsinglobal commercial musiccultures".Some non-Western
countries,suchas Japan,have developedathrivingpopmusicindustry,mostof
whichisdevotedtoWestern-style pop,hasforseveral yearsproduceda
greaterquantityof musicof everywhere exceptthe USA. The spreadof
Western-style popmusichasbeeninterpretedvariouslyasrepresenting
processesof Americanization,homogenization,modernization,creative
appropriation,cultural imperialism, and/oramore general processof
globalization.
Here Wikipediaissaying,throughthe processof globalisation,popmusichas
become increasinglymore of aworldwide concept.Forexample,aswell as
Americahavingtheirtopmusiccharts,there isa worldwidemusiccharts.
