‘Popular music’ is difficult to define because the meaning depends on whom you ask. The word 'popular' derives from the Latin ‘popularis’ which means ‘belonging to the people’ and Raymond Williams in ‘Keywords’ defines 'popular' as something that is ‘widely favoured’. These definitions seem accurate as new technology means that music is available to everybody on demand and therefore popular music is the people's personal favoured choice.
Personally, I consider pop music to be chart music. Although I have realised that it can be from any genre, time period and differs between cultures. I think that Roy Shuker outlines the meaning of pop music well, which is that it ‘consists of hybrid musical traditions, styles and influences’. However Robert Burnett states that popular music is primarily concerned with profit. This is often the case (X Factor) but a lot of musicians make music simply because of their love for it.
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This is pretty good, although Raymond Williams is concerned with the word popular rather than popular music.
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