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## What Is Popular Music? Popular music, quoting Serge Denidoff, is like a unicorn: "everyone knows what is supposed to look like, but no one has ever seen it" [1]. Generally speaking, popular music consists of a hybrid of musical influences, styles, and traditions. Admittedly, it is also an economic product, which is invested with ethical, moral, and ideological significance by the majority of its consumers. In Englishspeaking countries, we find two interpretations of the word popular music: music "of the people" or music that "appeals to many," with reference to its popularity. In English, music of oral tradition is referred to as folk music or traditional music. Thus, popular music can be defined as music with a wide circulation, to be listened to through the media, such as the radio, the television, and social channels. According to the Italian musicologist L. Pestalozza, popular music can be defined as "extra-cultured," thus indicating a music genre outside academic boundaries and in a context not classifiable as "classic" or "cultured" [2]. Actually, popular music must be seen as a proper cultural unit, something that culture has defined as an element, distinct and different

Author

Bruno Colombo; Luca Bosco

Publisher

Springer International Publishing Springer

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031081323

Subjects

Music, Medical, Psychology