Art Popular music was historically disseminated through the performances of written Popular music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is disseminated through recordings.
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16 Facts About Popular music
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The song structure of popular music commonly involves repetition of sections, with the verse and chorus or refrain repeating throughout the song and the bridge providing a contrasting and transitional section within a piece.
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Some popular music forms have become global, while others have a wide appeal within the culture of their origin.
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Some sort of popular music has existed for as long as there has been an urban middle class to consume it.
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Manuel states that one criticism of popular music is that it is produced by large media conglomerates and passively consumed by the public, who merely buy or reject what music is being produced.
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Society's popular music reflects the ideals that are prevalent at the time it is performed or published.
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Form in popular music is most often sectional, the most common sections being verse, chorus or refrain, and bridge.
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Early popular music performers worked hand-in-hand with the sheet music industry to promote popular sheet music.
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One of the early popular music performers to attain widespread popularity was a Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, who toured the US in the mid-19th century.
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Center of the Popular music publishing industry in the US during the late 19th century was in New York's 'Tin Pan Alley' district.
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The Tin Pan Alley Popular music publishers developed a new method for promoting sheet Popular music: incessant promotion of new songs.
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Radio broadcasting of music, which began in the early 1920s, helped to spread popular songs to a huge audience, enabling a much larger proportion of the population to hear songs performed by professional singers and music ensembles, including individuals from lower income groups who previously would not have been able to afford concert tickets.
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One major change is that popular music has gotten slower; the average BPM of popular songs from the 1960s was 116, while the average of the 2000s was 100BPM.
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The subject matter and lyrics of popular music have undergone major change, becoming sadder as well as more antisocial and self-centered since the 1960s.
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In contrast to Western popular music, a genre of music that is popular outside of a Western nation, is categorized into World music.
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The youths described being able to connect to the emotions and language of the Chinese Popular music, but enjoyed the melodies found within Anglo-American Popular music.
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