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	pop music - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about pop music
		Pop music contains strong rhythms of African origin, simple harmonic structures often repeated to strophic melodies, and the use of electrically amplified instruments.
		Pop music generically includes the areas of rock, country and western, rhythm and blues, soul, and others.
		Pop became distinct from folk music with the development of sound-recording techniques; electronic amplification and other technological innovations have played a large part in the creation of new styles.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pop+music (858 words)

	Why Pop Music Matters! - Section 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first is that studies of pop music have too often been inherently tied up with cultural studies, particularly studies that deal with youth.
		He says that 'notational centricity' has the effect of marginalising pop music, since it is difficult to effectively notate wah-wah, reverb, DJ record scratching, or even the human voice which gives a song its distinctive character.
		In summary, studies into pop music have not been plentiful enough, have too often been considered a part of some wider concern (particularly youth groups), have faced the problem of investigating a subject that seemingly 'needs no explanation', or have given it a cold and callous treatment through the wholly inappropriate musicological approach.
	members.tripod.com /~joedownie/music2.htm (996 words)

	Amusement total…Sans regret?!
		The concept of Pop has been pervasive throughout the 20 th century and into the 21 st – nonetheless all attempts at giving a concise definition of the term have been surprisingly futile.
		That might be because Pop knows no article – there is no such thing as “a” Pop or “the” Pop – and, consequently, we shouldn’t waste our time trying to invent what doesn’t exist.
		Pop is often conceived of as a global phenomenon with a strong gravitational pull towards Anglo-American centers of influence.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/jss93/descript.htm (1031 words)

	Sarah Zupko: Why Pop Matters... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Others who study pop culture are obsessed and wax poetic or academic.
		In this age of hyper media with millions of messages flying at us each day in multiple media, pop culture is a more valid area of analysis than ever before.
		Pop culture is literally how we tell our human stories now.
	www.rockcritics.com /interview/sarahzupko.html (3263 words)

	Why are pop critics so afraid of Justin Timberlake? By Sasha Frere-Jones
		The emphasis of pop songs is on transitory physical pleasures, instead of the eternal truths that rock protects.
		There's a real argument to be had about whether or not it matters who made a song, but let's accept for now that the number of people involved in making a pop record matters because this idea about the Individual Artist won't go away.
		Were he alive, he would see that young pop fans have gone and had their own golden age without asking permission.
	www.slate.com /id/2087321 (2738 words)

	trolleyvox :: reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Too many of the albums released under the aegis of the power pop genre suffer from a lack of either rock power or pop smarts.
		The big knock against jangly guitar pop is that it's lightweight, that the songs don't have much to them beyond a few catchy hooks.
		What this city needs is less mod rock and more power pop. The debut from Philadelphia's the Trolleyvox is pure power pop played on vintage guitars though Vox amplifiers. This is the kind of music conceived by Big Star and Let's Active, but sadly deemed commercially unacceptable.
	www.thetrolleyvox.com /reviews.html (3979 words)

	Pure Pop Records
		The couple's no longer together, but "no matter what they say, don't talk about us" is the request.
		Melbourne pop band Lynchpin have made several good moves with their second album.
		Oh sure, their jangly pop agenda seems familiar enough as many Oz bands trade in the formula.
	www.purepop.com.au /Artists/Reviews/HandPickedWords.html (1482 words)

	News Release 8/2005: University of Texas at Austin professor writes book on hip hop culture
		In “Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement,” Watkins traces the charged history of hip hop through its artists, producers and politicians, as well as the subculture the music unleashed.
		Hip hop’s introduction to the pop charts began during the summer of 1979, when producer Sylvia Robinson and her son, Joey, auditioned local rappers Big Bank Hank, Master Gee and Wonder Mike, who composed the Sugar Hill Gang, in a New Jersey pizzeria.
		Watkins pins down the influence that hip hop has had on numerous levels—the pop music industry, global media, political landscape and academe—and scrutinizes its impact on the young people who are not just fans, yet, through their efforts and ideas, make hip hop matter outside of pop culture.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/news/2005/08/communication02.html (785 words)

	Favorite/least favorite review sources - Topic Powered by eve community
		I was sorry to see Pop Matters include ratings in their reviews.
		I'm just not sure that any one review source, be it Pitchfork, Pop Matters, or any other, should be the source of what you like or what you buy.
		Reviewing is certainly a matter of taste...I know plenty of people who like (and find informative) the Pitchfork-styled self-referential music criticism.
	forums.metacritic.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/376108/m/62310452/p/2 (1496 words)

	SF Gate: Search: Asian Pop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		ASIAN POP Generation O - Meet the otaku -- a global network of anime fans and manga maniacs whose unique tastes and burgeoning consumer clout are reshaping the cultural landscape
		While the rest of the nation prepared to mark the Fourth of July by consuming charred lumps of meat and blowing stuff up, a gleeful mob was descending on unsuspecting Anaheim, Calif., for a very dif...
		At 5 feet 5 inches and 99 pounds, the Alexandria, Va., resident is one of those people about whom you think, "She must eat like a bird." And, in fact, she does, but only becaus...
	www.sfgate.com /columns/asianpop/archive (1624 words)

	The Grip Weeds: PRESS - Summer of a Thousand Years
		Retro jangle rock sounds abound, and The Grip Weeds lay claim to their own fair share of 1960s musical memories, though not necessarily the same obvious ones as other bands.
		Apart from the clean harmonies and Byrds-y guitar riffs, The Grip Weeds specialize in creating their own type of well-crafted pop, sprinkled with extra layers of melodic twists and turns that reveal themselves with extended listening.
		These 13 original songs all are well put-together, feature superb vocal performances (two-, and occasional three-part harmonizing) and any one of them could stand out proudly with transformed retro flavor as a modern pop single (there's also a fine cover of The Who's "Melancholia", featuring lead vocals from standout lead guitarist Kristin Pinnel).
	www.gripweeds.com /press/press-soaty/0102-popmatters.htm (772 words)

	Pop Matters Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Prior to the Manic Street Preachers rise to the British rock elite, there was a band that many believed would eventually become what the Manics are today.
		What the listener will find with roughly a quarter of these numbers is how they seem to be going nowhere fast, but like "Gentleman Caller", a slight alteration will have you cracking a smile and back alongside with them.
		The waltz-like pop rock of "The Best Laugh I Ever Had" is sinfully dreamy and gorgeous.
	www.hellfiresermons.fsnet.co.uk /Press/hymns-popmatters.htm (562 words)

	PopMatters Critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		pop Matters is an e-mag that reviews film, music, books, video, comics, and other issues in today’s culture.
		pop Matters went out to find experts in these subjects, like Dr. Mark Zeltner, a communication professor at Slippery Rock University and academic advisor to The Rocket, their student newspaper.
		pop Matters is well written, easy to use, has useful content and comes very highly recommended.
	www.sru.edu /depts/cisba/comm/zeltner/students/woldoff/pages/popmatters.html (371 words)

	Why Pop Music Matters! - Section 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Yet, as every pop music fan knows, we often believe we are being objective when we defend our favourite band, song, or whatever.
		If we agree that value judgements are useful and valid in the study of pop music, then we must move on to consider who precisely is 'qualified' to make such judgements.
		Thus, while value judgements (which, we should not forget, may criticise as much as they praise) about pop music will provide insights that a cold analysis would miss, there also remains a need for critical, objective inquiry into the economic side of the pop music industry, where such an approach is much more useful.
	members.tripod.com /~joedownie/music3.htm (708 words)

	Pop That Matters quiz -- free game
		If on a bright, sunny afternoon you find yourself humming along to "September Gurls" and "Thirteen," you'd be humming two classics from this '70s Power Pop band.
		An occasional member of Mood Elevator who is known to often collaborate with Jason Falkner, he received critical acclaim for his 1996 debut album.
		They were joined by a former member of The Three O'Clock and their two studio albums are now Power Pop history.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=210087 (436 words)

	Features \| MUSIC MATTERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We consider ourselves music fans, and yet can’t ever figure out what this band Pop Pop are doing on the Bull Moose charts.
		We have been tortured by the mystery of Pop Pop and their self-titled, wildly successful, album.
		Pop Pop is not a band with a self-titled album after all!
	www.portlandphoenix.com /features/this_just_in/documents/03851107.asp (310 words)

	CD Baby: BUZZIE: Are You Feeling Anything Yet?
		Instead, with a pop songwriter as talented as McElhenny at the helm, they wisely stick to their strengths and the result is an album of sheer pop bliss.
		There's plenty of roots-jangle exuberance to please the most casual pop fan, but it's a spirit in the songs' performances that really make this one so special for all.
		McElhenney wisely leads with his best known Blue Cartoon track, "She's Gone", one of those classic longing pop tunes with an indelible hook that will be showing up (in both the Blue Cartoon and Buzzie versions) on compilations for years to come.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/buzzie1 (917 words)

	LOW - Press
		Virtually absent on The Great Destroyer are the spare, minimalist daubs of intimate beauty with which they're so closely associated, and yet, nonetheless, it wades through a kind of dark, tumultuous resplendence all its own.
		This shift must surely be due in part to their move to Sub Pop and to David Fridmann's sumptuous production, but I also suspect it's just another sign of the band's perversity, a maverick resistance to being typecast.
		Of course, anyone who has heard 1997's "Venus" single, or "Canada" (from 2002's Trust), will know that Low are perfectly capable of pop confection and rocking out respectively.
	www.chairkickers.com /press/d_popmatters.html (626 words)

	Pop That Matters - Music Mixture Quiz
		Power Pop so sweet that it'll give you a cavity.
		If you crave a good melody and go weak in the knees for a crafty hook, then this quiz is for you.
		I recall I was a member of The Nerves and went on to write "Rock N Roll Girl" and "I Don't Fit In." I also remember some legal problems with an English band with the same band name as mine.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?quiz=210087 (134 words)

	Hip Hop Matters - Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
		Hip Hop Matters delves deeply into the phenomenal world that hip hop has created and comes up with a portrait that is as big, brave, and vibrant as the movement itself.
		Ultimately, we see how the struggle for hip hop reverberates in a world bigger than hip hop: global media, racial and demographic change, the reinvention of the pop music industry, urban politics, the moral and public health of young people, and their relentless desire to be heard and respected.
		Hip Hop Matters is an acute, soulful, and brilliant examination of the broad and complex terrain that hip hop culture now occupies in this country, in cyberspace, and across the globe."
	www.beacon.org /productdetails.cfm?SKU=0982 (740 words)

	champale
		MUSICTODAY.COM Orchestral pop is a quasi-genre of music marked by the inclusion of a multitude of instruments, including brass and strings, which play specialized roles within a pop-structured song.
		This present-day harbinger of the orchestral pop sound is less a band and more a collaborative effort centered on the excellent songwriting of Mark Rozzo and a slew of his New York pals.
		TIMEOUT NEW YORK Champale, one of the city's finest pop combos, pack their songs with the sort of casual hooks and sweet sounds that you just can't fake, you've either got it or you don't.
	www.champalebungalow.com /press.htm (3689 words)

	Hip Hop Matters - Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement.
		At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture.
		Ultimately, we see how hip hop struggles reverberate in the larger world: global media consolidation; racial and demographic flux; generational cleavages; the reinvention of the pop music industry; and the ongoing struggle to enrich the lives of ordinary youth.
	www.beacon.org /productdetails.cfm?PC=1208 (385 words)

	LexisNexis® Time Matters® Software \| Time Matters Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Alarms in Time Matters and Billing Matters can pop up anywhere in Windows, even if Time Matters or Billing Matters is minimized.
		Quick Alarms can be used for those times you want to be reminded about something that is not associated with a record in Time Matters.
		The sound used for the alarms can be customized using a variety of.wav files, or alarms can pop up silently.
	www.timematters.com /products/timematters/feature/alarms (170 words)

	Family Matters - Pop star’s whirlwind marriage points to value of preparation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Love and marriage may go together “like a horse and carriage,” but too often these days it seems that celebrities and marriage do not; at least not celebrities and lasting marriage.
		When it was all said and done, the couple had lasted only 55 hours.
		Alexander, the now infamous ex-husband of the international pop icon, offered the following explanation to Access Hollywood for the couple’s spur-of-the-moment nuptials: “It was just crazy, man… we were just looking at each other and said, ‘Let’s do something wild, crazy.
	www.familiesnorthwest.org /fnw.aspx?pid=299 (818 words)

	Monkee Mania and Other Pop Music Matters : Joel Wicklund : Film - Centerstage Chicago
		As long as there have been movies with sound, popular music stars have tried their hand at movie stardom, some aiming to become legitimate actors and others content to play themselves in carefully tailored star vehicles.
		The irony is that, unlike some of the prefabricated pop stars of today, the Monkees actually turned out a fair amount of decent music, both before and after it actually started playing its own instruments on record.
		Suburban moms, pops and kiddies still dance to "YMCA" in sports stadiums, aware of the song's blatant sexual subtext or not.
	www.centerstagechicago.com /film/articles/dvdetours_20050120.html (1023 words)

	pop matters
		After the first spin, I thought that the disc was spotty, and better when it stuck to its less "transformed" songs.
		This is neither a party trick nor a matter of jazz guys slumming among some world music.
		Nash and Odeon see and perform this music as part of a continuum, even if it is one you have to get used to.
	www.tednash.com /pop_matters.html (895 words)

	Reviews of The Unknown
		Their style embraces the definition of pop punk, but their lyrics and hooks mark a band that is more mature than the average current practitioner of the genre.
		Very radio friendly pop punk that should appeal to many fans who like their punk on the softer side and happy-go-lucky.
		Reading the credits on Rocket Pop, its easy to see why the Unknown give a grateful nod to local hipsters the Beatnik Termites, since both bands appear to have taken the same stylistic courses at the school of snap-happy pop.
	www.poppunk.com /theunknown/subpages/reviews.html (7779 words)

	Family Matters: Pop Goes the Question - TV.com
		Armed with flowers and diamond rings, Urkel and Stephan each pop "the big question" to an unsuspecting Laura.
		Aware that Stephan is Carl's personal favorite and seems to be the logical choice, Laura is torn between the two men.
		Steve wears the exact same clothes from Marriage 101 where Steve & Laura had to be married for two weeks for a class project.
	www.tv.com /family-matters/pop-goes-the-question/episode/51367/summary.html (415 words)

	Wax Banks: Pop matters? Less every day I should think. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thing is, some of the columnists can write, and probably could muster up something substantive to say, if they weren't so busy trying to elevate mere pop culture with a little post-post-post-structuralism.
		Whether you're trying to elevate your subject matter or keep it in the possession of your tribe, treating the subject of your criticism as your property is dumb.
		Aaaaaaw, I'm just upset because I woke up this morning and wrote a few hundred words about a lame pop culture website and only remembered after the fact to think about why I was annoyed.
	waxbanks.typepad.com /blog/2006/02/pop_matters_les.html (719 words)

	Noise Pop: Community: Newsletter: 12.18.02
		We're happy to announce the first batch of confirmed artists for Noise Pop SF 2003, which runs from February 25th through March 2nd.
		Banner ads on the Noise Pop site are a great way for your band/label/whatever to reach an attentive audience that likes what you got and wants to know what's up.
		Saving the best for last, Noise Pop is super happy to welcome archivists of all things cool and musical, Experience Music Project, to the Noise Pop family.
	www.noisepop.com /community/newsletter121802.html (653 words)

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