Re: [microsound] FOR DISCUSSION...

[Craque <craque@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It drives me crazy that popular music has actually become consumerist 
music.

I think we should change the name.

Pop music used to carry an entirely different connotation... I prefer 
to think of it as useful music for the community and 'popular' activity 
that brings society together over class boundaries. It was never the 
Popular Music that garnered a need for money, it used to be the other 
way around; 'Art Music' is where the big bucks were, especially in 
opera and theatre.

Maybe if Capitialism is considered a popular activity that is 
pragmatically useful, the actualization of today's Pop Music makes 
sense (not to me, but probably to the 'Popular Majority'). Everything 
about Popular Music has become appropriated by the manipulation machine 
of the Music Industry. The elements of Pop Music are much more 
interesting to me than the categorization of it being Pop.

On Mar 16, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Peter Price wrote:
> If the word "pop" is problematic it is perhaps because you are using 
> it problematically. Why can't we just agree that "pop" is short for 
> "popular"  ;)


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