Pop music initially drew from folk music traditions in the US and Europe, incorporating genres like ragtime, cakewalk, and foxtrot. In the 1930s, the music publishing industry moved from Tin Pan Alley to be nearer Broadway theaters in New York. Elvis Presley was a pivotal figure in popularizing pop music for integrating styles from different ethnic traditions, with Sun Records producer Sam Phillips seeking a white singer who could perform in a black vocal style, which Elvis mastered.

1. About pop music
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2. About pop music
 Pop music is, in common with jazz, primarily an aural and improvised music.
Pop and jazz represent parallel, yet only indirectly related, developments,
despite their sharing a common folk music ancestry. Pop music initially drew
its repertoire from the folk traditions of the US, and thus indirectly from
previous African and European traditions. From the moment that it became
big business, pop music came largely from Tin Pan Alley's publishing houses.
Tin Pan Alley thrived on the opera, ragtime, cakewalk, foxtrot and show
tunes. As the latter came to represent more and more of the songwriter's
business, in the 1930s Tin Pan Alley moved north, near the Broadway theaters.

3. About pop music
 The reversion to musical segregation on ethnic line recalled the way that the
pop music industry was conceived and marketed during the 1920s so as to
conform to the prevailing social segregationist mores. In the early days, the
distinctions 'race' and 'hillbilly' were necessary guides to the nature of the
music produced. Elvis Presley was such a pivotal figure in the history of
popular music that, in retrospect, he seems to have been almost destined to
emerge when he did. Sun Records honcho Sam Phillips anticipated his coming
anyway. In one of the most oft-repeated stories in American musical history,
Phillips is reported to have said that he could make a fortune if he could find
a white singer who could master the black vocal style, and Elvis was that
singer.
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4. My favorite pop singers
Perrie Edwards
Ariana Grande