Re: [microsound] microsound as pop music

["Stasisfield.com" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> > I'm not so interested in the
> >  pop/academic distinction-
> >  microsound is strictly neither, it is what it is.
>
> But pop(ular) music sells millions of records,
> generating huge revenues for corporations.  Academic
> music is usually supported by grants, and is listened
> to by a small group of listeners.  They are very, very
> different. There is a distinction.


If the definition of "pop music" includes "sell(ing) millions of 
records", how does one categorize work by someone like Marshall 
Crenshaw (to stray WILDLY from the realm of artists normally 
discussed here!) who has spent his lifetime crafting what I can only 
see fit to call "pop music" yet sells very few records?

Can "pop" be as much an aesthetic as it is a label for music that 
gains a certain level of acceptance by the masses?


john

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