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As a white male rapidly approaching his fifties I’m might the last one who should write such an article as this. However, as a father of a couple of young people who do sometimes listen to this genre and a concerned citizen who thinks can be we are all wearing our emotions too close to the end of our sleeves; I wonder Assuming that the re is not one thing we can do better. The strange thing is I find Hip Hop somehow exhilarating and sometimes even find myself enjoying the music playing on my son’s car radio.

The rhythm is catching, the beat will inspire you to move, with words and music it feeds your soul.

These dynamic lyricists, who put out words, performance to exceptional music that denigrate women, vilify authority, and reinforce hopelessness; they make sexual pleasure impure, they are drunk on the misery and hopelessness of their generation.

prefer the men who stole their forgotten ancestors to sell them into slavery, they sell their personal individuals into the psychological slavery of hopelessness and despair. prefer the slave owners of the past, the buyers are there. Wouldn’t it be greatness, excellence and blessing if instead this dynamic, compelling and inspiring musical genre was used to further the dream of the greatness of King?

Wouldn’t it bring blessing Assuming that the buyers were as committed as Lincoln to freedom and liberty? Rise up you writers, gifted in music and words! Grasp the prize of greatness and like the excellent leaders before you, throw your fellow humans a rope of hope!

Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, Rythm & Blues (R&B), jazz, electronic, and occasionally folk music and various other styles. Pop music performers typically make use of state-of-the-art technology and recording studios to achieve the sound they want, and record producers may have a heavy influence. Pop music generally uses a easy, memorable melody and emphasizes the rhythm, frequently with syncopation, and stripped down to a basic riff or loop which repeats throughout much of the song. Pop music is frequently criticized for being overly easy and repetitive.
Popular
Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are distributed by one or more of the mass media. Popular music is music that isn’t something else ( frequently ‘folk’ or ‘art’ music). Popular music is associated with (produced for or by) a specific social group. Popular music is distributed by mass media and/or in a mass market. Popular music is also rarely entirely instrumental. Popular music isn’t really about ‘being heard’, but rather about ‘being heard again’; and ‘being heard again and again and again’ is what really popular music is really about. Pop is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music).
The term popular music does not refer especially to a single genre or sound, and its meaning is diverse depending on the time and place. Within popular music, “pop music” is frequently distinguished from other sub genres by stylistic traits such as a danceable rhythm or beat, easy melodies and a repeating structure. The expansive  appeal of pop music is seen to distinguish it from more specific types of popular music, and pop music performers and recordings are among the perfect -selling and most expansive ly known in a lot of regions of the world. The development of recording methods is seen as a major influence on the sound of pop, distinguishing it from classical music and jazz, as well as from some types of popular music which may seek a more “natural” sound.
Album
In the recorded music era, the single (a single song) and the album (a collection of songs ) are the usual methods of distributing pop music. Notable highlights for pop music in the 1980s are Michael Jackson’s second Epic label release, Thriller, which went on to become the perfect -selling album of all time. Jackson has been the most successful artist of the 80s, spanning nine #1 singles in the America alone during that decade, and selling over 133 million copies with only two albums — Thriller, and its follow-up Bad.
Pop music in the 1980s has been heavily influenced by an electronic sound with synthesizers and drum machines, and dance type music. Pop music, on the other hand, has primarily come into usage to describe music that evolved out of the rock ‘n roll revolution of the mid-1950’s and continues in a definable path to today. Pop music may range from the highly creative, iconoclastic or virtuosic to easy and downright dumb.

“ songs go far beyond words in their ability to insert emotion into communication.” Robert Sylwester, A Celebration of Neurons
Filmmakers, If the y knew who brain researcher Robert Sylwester has been, would agree with him. They frequently integrate familiar songs into their movies. Pop songs are so successful that movie producers will pay exorbitant sums, in some cases as much as $100,000, to acquire the rights for the song.
Sylwester, in his book A Celebration of Neurons, went on to explain:
“The songs of our adolescent years frequently become the beacons of our adult life because they may help us to recall the important developments of our adolescence.  all of us  frequently listen to this music to relive the memories in the extended reverie of song. The song slows the easy message so that  all of us  can savor all the feelings of the experience.”
In a film composer’s hands, pop songs are chosen and linked to those memories in a way that adds emotional texture to the film. Films with pop music scores function on two distinct levels. The 1st level is the application of the song in the film. Every song lyric tells a story and a well placed song’s story will dovetail with the film’s visual.
The second, and deeper, level is the emotional meaning the use of specific songs brings forth within the listener. The songs become metaphors, placing the subject to be taught in the context of the learners prior experiences. When individuals hear songs they know, and have individual memories of, they immediately are drawn back into those memories, and the experience is enhanced. In essence, pop music helps us relate to the story being told in a deeply individual, highly emotional way.
Three famous films used this technique to achieve success.
American Graffiti (1973), telling the story of a group of early 1960s high schoolers enjoying a last summer before adulthood, has been intentionally designed as a series of pop music vignettes. George Lucas, the film’s director, developed the storyline, and selected the songs to al most at the same time.
Each scene matched the length of the song accompanying it. For instance, Bill Haley’s “ Rock and Roll Around The Clock,” played during the opening  credits, session up the film’s innocence of summer theme. The Crests’ “Sixteen Candles” accompanied a young girls sixteenth birthday. “Teen Angel” by Mark Dinning has been played when a character dies in a drag race. The film ends with the Spaniels’ “Goodnight, Well It’s Time To Go.”
The Big Chill tells the story of a group of former 1960s radicals turned 1980s yuppies who gather to mourn the passing of an old companion. like American Graffiti, The Big Chill uses pop songs, although in this case, to add commentary to the on-screen occurrences.
Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” accompanied the actors as they hear about their friend’s passing. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones is played as an ironic commentary on the friend’s death. As the friends discuss relationships, The Young Rascals “Good Lovin’” is performed. Lastly, “Bad Moon Rising’” by Credence Clearwater Revival is played immediately following a former lover proposes that she and her old flame reunite for an evening.
The perfect subconscious music placement occurs in a supermarket amidst the two former lovers who contemplate rekindling their relationship. Although their desire for each other is palpable, both hold back, only conversing about the shopping task at hand as the store’s Muzak system plays Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers In The Night.”
Forest Gump tells the story of a dimwitted man who experiences a series of life adventures over a few decades. Because the film’s extended time frame, the music serves to create the time and place.
Credence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” sessions up Gump’s Vietnam tour. To state that Forest’s girlfriend has moved to California, California Dreaming” by the Mamas and Papas is used. “San Francisco” by Scott Mackenzie frames Forest’s 1960s visit to San Francisco. When Forest returns home to Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” is played. These music placements help the films listeners comprehend the diverse locations and eras represented in the film.
American Graffiti, The Big Chill, and Forest Gump were all highly successful films, and their pop song application played a very large part in creating that success. All three films appealed to individuals at a deeply individual level.
Pop songs in Learning
In Training With A Beat, I discussed at length the application of pop songs in the learning environment. In part, I said:
“Concert club s, ballrooms, get togethers, and yes, the class room, may be uncomfortable environments. When individuals hear a song they’ve listened to in the privacy of their home, they relax. Comfortable music emotionally warms the training room, placing learners in a receptive frame of mind for learning. songs with lyrics, especially popular hits of the last 50 years, are extremely useful for this reason. They are old, well worn, welcome friends.”
songs with lyrics also engage learner brains in multiple ways. The words and rhythm of a song are largely processed in the brain’s left hemisphere, where the melody is  largely processed by the right hemisphere. By using songs with lyrics, you help your learners engage both hemispheres. In the process, they gain a deeper meaning than is possible with one hemisphere alone.
Song lyrics can, as has been the case in The Big Chill, speak directly to the learning topic.
The a lot of applications are too numerous to state in this one article, but a few examples should prove the point:
Career preparing – “All Star” by Smash Mouth
Change management – “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter
Communication – “Hello, Goodbye” by the Beatles
Conflict management – “Shut Up” by the Black Eye Peas
Customer service – “Lean On Me” by Bill Withers
Diversity – “Short individuals ” by Randy Newman
Finance – “Takin’ Care of Business” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Project Management – “One Little Slip” by the Bare Naked Ladies
Sexual harassment – “Respect” by Aretha Franklin
Time management – “Right Place, Wrong Time” by Dr. John
Once you’ve decided on an appropriate song, placement is easy Considering the Randy Newman song “Short individuals ” for example:
Introduction – performance the song as the learners enter. Once the song is over call attention to the songs lyrics and ask for comments about the meaning conveyed by those lyrics. Use those comments as a transition to your presentation.
Filler – performance the song during breaks to add a subliminal message to your content.
Activity – Divide your learners into groups and instruct them to read and discuss the lyrics. Then guide a general discussion to share each group’s observations.
Conclusion – Conclude your session by stating, “We are all short individuals in an individual ’s eyes.” Then ask the rhetorical question, “If none of us were welcome around here, who would be left to complete our work?” Create the song and thank everyone for attending. Your learners will walk out of the classroom with the song and its lyrics firmly implanted in their brains, and you’ll have closed with a visually authoritative learning point.
Given the large number of pop songs available, the choices are limited only by your imagination and the musical preferences of your learners. You too may have your learners, in the words of the old song by “M”, “talkin’ ‘bout pop music.”

Pop music is a genre of popular music notable from classical or art music and from folk music. The term indicates specific stylistic qualities, but the genre also includes elements of rock, hip-hop, dance, and country, making it a flexible musical form. The definition of pop music is purposefully flexible as the music that’s identified as pop is unendingly changing.
The expression pop music may also be used to refer to specific sub genres (within the pop music genre ) that are referred to as soft rock and pop/rock. The pop music genre also frequently involves mass marketing and consumer-driven endeavors by major record companies and music labels, which makes it an frequently -scorned genre by non-mainstream artists as they feel that the quality of music suffers.
The average consumer of pop music is frequently identified to be in his or her teenage years, making it an important icon of youth culture. Pop music has always been the source of numerous moral panics, especially as a lot of of the styles that influence it trickle up from minority groups (racial, ethnic, sexual or class-based). This is partly because youth culture itself is an object of social trepidation. It’s tempting for everyone to confuse pop music with popular music. According to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, popular music is identified as the music since industrialization in the 1800’s that’s most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class.
This would include an extremely expansive  range of music from vaudeville and minstrel shows to heavy metal. Pop music, on the other hand, has primarily come into usage to describe music that evolved out of the rock n roll revolution of the mid 1950’s and continues in a definable path to today.
One of the steadiest elements of pop music since the 1950’s is the pop song, which isn’t frequently written, performed and recorded as a symphony, suite, or performance o. The basic form for pop music is the song and frequently a song consisting of verse and repeated chorus. They are short in length but there have been notable exceptions though. The Beatles Hey Jude has been an epic 7 minutes in length. Nonetheless, in a lot of cases, If the song is abnormally long, an edited version is released for radio airplay such as in the case of Don McLean’s exceedingly famous American Pie. It has been edited down from its original 8 1/2 minutes length to just over 4 minutes for radio airplay. While on the other extreme, some hit songs clocked in less than 2 minutes in length.
like other art forms that aim to attract a mass listeners (movies, television, Broadway shows), pop music has been and continues to be a melting pot that borrows and absorb elements and ideas from a expansive  range of musical styles. Over the past five decades, pop music has been influenced and in corporate d genres of music like Rock, Rythm & Blues (R&B) in various ways. Most recently, Latin music seems to be impacting pop music more meaningful ly than at any point in the past.
Although pop music continues to be a melting pot of styles, there is a genre of pop music that claims to be pop music in its purest form. This music, frequently called pure pop or power pop, typically consists of relatively brief (not over 3 1/2 minutes) songs played on the standard electric guitar, bass and drums with vocals that have a exceedingly strong catchy chorus, or hook.
In the 2000s, hip-hop blended in with pop music, is paving the way for the multi platinum successes of artists like Nelly, Eminem, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Ciara, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and especially Britney Spears. artists such as Mariah Carey and pop queen, Madonna, presented comeback albums that continued to make them rule the music charts and keep their titles.
For the past 50 years the most successful musical styles on the pop charts have continually vary d and evolved and times will tell as how much more popular they become in future.

What’s ‘pop music?’ Where did this distinction arise and what’s it is purpose? If it has a purpose, who does it serve?
On close examination, you see that it is the way society absorbs a thing; the way the tiger is defanged. It’s another useful illusion from society’s toolbox of illusions. All through my school years, I had to put up with this prattle about ‘ meaningful music,’ and ‘pop music.’ Oh sure, I bought into it a bit, at 1st. But one only has to question the status quo.
1st of all,  all of us  all know what it means, this business of ‘pop music‘ and ‘ meaningful music.’ It depends a lot on what side of the fence you are sitting on, of course. If you are a ‘ meaningful artist,’ ‘ meaningful music’ is ‘ good,’ and ‘pop’ music is ‘bad.’ Of course  all of us  all know that ‘ meaningful music’ will make you no resources. Why? Because it is ‘ good,’ of course, and the majority of individuals don’t know about ‘ good.’ They only pay for music that’s ‘bad.’
Now to be fair, if you are on the other side of this specific fence, ‘ meaningful music’ is ‘boring,’ ( that’s bad) and pop music is ‘cool.’ ( That is ‘ good ‘). Likewise, this historically speaking, has tended to be ‘radical’ and ‘revolutionary.’
‘Serious music?’ Part of the establishment.
It’s important to reflect on the political demographics implied by these distinctions in music. They are fairly undeniable, when you stop to think about it, but it is exciting that most individuals toss these distinctions about in the absence of a second thought. From these two easy musical types, you may quickly build up profiles of the listener’s politics, religion, average income and so on and so on. individuals do plot these demographics. Not the listeners, but the individuals who are in the business of sales and marketing.
Nonetheless, as you may suspect, all these demographics are bound and held in place by belief systems that are spun on half truths, exaggeration and out right fantasy.
Even ‘ meaningful ‘ artists have allowed themselves to be saddled with ridiculous myths and caricature profiles of past composers, much to their personal detriment and decline of the tradition. Most of these folks, who should know better, have been content with whatever historical spin has been handed down.
This kind of thinking has drained the important ity out of the tradition. Take just the idea that composers like Beethoven and Mozart were not actually popular until following their death. Th isn’t ion has bred a mentality that has said whatever it establishes is too good for present day listenerss and it must unending ly create for some, undefined, superior future listeners. This also conveniently isolates it from any criticism of what’s going on.
In point of fact, Beethoven has been acknowledged as the most important living composer in his own lifetime. The city of Vienna, an historically important center of culture in Europe, paid the man to live there. As far as being ‘radical’ or ‘revolutionary,’ well, let’s see;  all of us  have Beethoven dedicating his third symphony to the leader of the French Revolution.  all of us  have Hector Berlioz composing an enduring masterpiece while stoned on opium.
We’ve premiers of famous classical works like Bolero and the Rite of Spring that were either banned or caused a riot. This list goes on and on.
And what of this hoary chestnut that demonstrates pop music is a lesser discipline? Anyone with a musical ear may tell you that there’s been plenty of wonderful ‘pop music.’ And why not? a lot of of these artist s, like Elton John, went to music school. They’re ‘ meaningful artist s.’ So why this wonderful deceit? The most undeniable suspect is the music business, but it is undeniable by now, that they have no idea what  they are  doing either.
No, the deeper reality is that, as long as there has been a culture in the western hemisphere, there has been a counter culture. All this business of counter culture, that supposedly began in the sixties, did not.
How far back does it go? Well. Richard Wagner, in his early days, has been part of a free love movement in Ger a lot of and his 1st opera has been called ‘Forbidden Love,’ and it has little to do with rings of power or Teutonic nymphs.
It’s an opera that Wagner, later in his life, professed that he would like to forget about, and, well, we’re just not going to let him. I will deal with culture and its twin, counter culture in subsequent articles.

Pop music is a genre of popular music distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music . The term indicates specific stylistic traits, but the genre also includes artists working in a lot of styles such as rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues ( Rythm & Blues (R&B) ), and country, making it a flexible category. The expression “pop music” may also be used to refer to specific sub genres (within the pop music genre ) that are in some cases referred to as soft rock and pop/rock.
Characteristics as a sub genre
Pop “is designed to appeal to everyone” and ” does not come from any specific place or mark off any specific taste.” In musical terms, it is essentially “conservative” in that it attempts to resonate with a large segment of its target demographic rather than pushing artistic boundaries. It’s ” offer d from on high (by record companies, radio programmers and performance  promoters) rather than being made from below…” (Frith 2001, p.95-96). But over time, pop has gone from “popular in general” to “a genre ” described as sounding musically similar to rap, but with singing. This is due to radio stations labeling themselves as “pop stations” taking heavy like ence over certain sounds, tossing other popular performers who don’t fit into the sound or other types like rock into the “alternative” label.
frequently used to describe the current popular genres of music of any given time, the term “pop” can’t be used describe any one specific style.
History of pop music
1930s and 1940s
Styles influencing the later development of pop include the Blues (Chicago), and Country (Tennessee)
1950s
Early Pop music artists include Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and Peggy Lee, but other artists like Bill Haley and his Comets, Fats Domino and Elvis Presley become popular with the young generation.
1960s
The decade begins out with such Teen Idols such as, Johnny Tillotson, Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, Tommy Roe, Gene Pitney, and Frankie Avalon. It explodes midway with Carole King, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Aretha Franklin, Isley Brothers, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel. It may be said that The Beatles led the British Invasion in this decade.
1970s
A proliferation of new sounds from the disco of the BeeGees, the piano sounds of Billy Joel and Elton John, the country of the Eagles, the rock-influenced pop of artists like Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, and Fleetwood Mac. ABBA has been a swedish band who grew to fame following winning Eurovision Song Contest and starting a whole new revolution of pop music.
1980s
Notable highlights for pop music in the 1980s are Michael Jackson’s second Epic label release, Thriller, which went on to become the perfect -selling album of all time, and Madonna albums ” like a Virgin”, “True Blue”, ” like a Prayer” . Michael Jackson has been occasionally referred to as “The King of Pop” and Madonna has been named “The Queen of Pop“. Other artists included Michael Bolton, Prince, Janet Jackson, Duran Duran, The Police, ABBA, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Kylie Minogue and Culture Club.
1990s and 21st century
The 1990s and 21st century were marked by a resurgence of boy band and girl group trends. From the UK came the likes of Take That, Blue, the Spice Girls, a highly successful formula. Irish boy performers of the time include Boyzone and Westlife. The America had New Edition, New children On The Block followed by the Backstreet Boys, Hanson, girl trio Destiny’s Child and then ‘N Sync and Pop Princesses Willa Ford, Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera. Canadian Avril Lavigne became popular with her album Let Go. Australia had Boys from Oz. 1999 saw the rise of the Latin explosion with Ricky Martin at the forefront with his world expansive  smash hit “Livin’ La Vida Loca”. Other latin artists to follow were Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, and Marc Anthony. In 2002, Justin Timberlake had critical and commercial acclaim with his “Justified” album, emerging as the new “Prince of Pop“, Jesse McCartney has emerged from Dream Street as a high-rating singer with songs like She’s No You, Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff has become popular in the 2000s. artists like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Madonna have also been highly successful. Reality television shows, such as American Idol, begin producing multi-platinum artists like Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken. British pop rock groups such as McFly emerge.
Sound and themes
Pop music, in whatever musical influence form it derives from, may be produced by a more basic songwriting approach and arrangement. The emphasis is frequently on a easy r melody, which makes the songs more memorable, and may use stripped-down rhythms. The mixture of the melody and the rhythm allows for harmony to be a driving force of the song. Themes range from individual songs to vivacious party jams. Nonetheless, the most common theme deals with the expansive  range of feelings which stem from physical or emotional love.
Music videos and live performances are frequently used for exposure in the media, and artists may have extravagant stage shows and use choreographed dancing. a lot of pop tunes are used in both Dance venues and Sport venue s.