What is the concept of pop music?

Pop music is translated from English pop music. The accurate concept of pop music should be commercial music, which refers to music created for profit. It is a commercial music entertainment and all the "industrial" phenomena related to it. (See the Encyclopedia Dictionary of Music of the former Soviet Union (version 1990). Its marketability is the first and its artistry is the second.

Pop music originated in America at the end of19th century and the beginning of 20th century. From the musical system, pop music is developed on the basis of American pop music structure, such as Ding Bangxiang's songs, blues, jazz, rock music and Sol's music. Its styles and forms are diverse, which can generally refer to jazz, rock, soul music, blues, reggae, rap, hip-hop, disco, new era and other urbanized pop music.

Pop music, translated from English pop music. According to the superficial understanding of Chinese vocabulary, the so-called pop music refers to instrumental music and songs that are short in structure, popular in content, lively in form and sincere in emotion, loved by the masses, widely sung or appreciated, and even spread to future generations. These music and songs are rooted in the fertile soil of public life. Therefore, it is also called "pop music".

However, such a definition may make music that does not belong to pop music, such as The Internationale, March of the Volunteers, La Marseillaise, Waves in Hong Hushui, Singing the Motherland, Dongfanghong and Nanniwan, be classified as pop music just because they are also widely circulated among the masses. On the other hand, those music that are obviously popular are excluded from pop music because they cannot spread (which is also quite a lot in pop music). Obviously, pop music is not always popular, and pop music is not just pop music.

References:

Pop music (a musical style) _ Baidu Encyclopedia