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	Popular music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially.
		In this respect, popular music differs from traditional folk music, which was created by ordinary people for their own enjoyment, and from classical music, which was originally created to serve the purposes of the Church or for the entertainment of the nobility.
		As noted earlier, these have a distinct character from popular music: either they are transmitted by word of mouth rather than in organized fashion (children's songs, authentic folk music) or else they are produced to fill the needs of a particular social institution (church, aristocracy, the military, or the state).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Popular_music (1724 words)

	Song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Art songs are songs created for performance in their own right, or for the purposes of a European upper class, usually with piano accompaniment, although they can also have other types of accompaniment such as an orchestra or string quartet, and are always notated.
		The German word for song, "Lied" (plural: "Lieder"), is used in French and English-speaking communities to refer to the serious art song, whereas in German-speaking communities the word "Kunstlied" (plural: "Kunstlieder") is used to distinguish art song from folk song ("Volkslied").
		Popular songs are often a part of individual and cultural, but seldom national, identity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Song (1065 words)

	AllRefer.com - folk song (Music: Popular And Jazz) - Encyclopedia
		There is scarcely any people whose folk song is wholly indigenous, and among notable cases of transplanting is the English ballad found in various parts of the United States.
		Conversely, folk song often shows the influence of formally composed music; this is particularly true of 17th- and 18th-century European folk song.
		Folksingers such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger performed traditional songs and wrote their own songs in the folk idiom, an approach that was later used and modified by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and others.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/folksong.html (466 words)

	American popular song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The aesthetics of American popular music are based on the "unexpected yet perfectly appropriate note." This, however, means that there has to exists standards against which the songwriters, the musicians, the singers and the audience can measure their expectations.
		The development of this characteristic American song style coincided with the growth of institutions in which that music, now moved out of the parlors of private homes, could be performed for the public: the vaudeville houses, musical theaters, taverns and night clubs that became increasingly common after the turn of the century.
		For these songs to be written and played, to be heard and responded to in the way I have described, a network of organizations, institutions, and customary practices had to grow up to maintain the music and carry it to the world.
	www.icce.rug.nl /~soundscapes/VOLUME05/American_popular_song.html (3747 words)

	§3. Early Popular Song. XXVII. Oral Literature. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An early mention of popular song in America occurs in an entry in the diary of Cotton Mather for 27 September, 1713:
		Doubtless many legendary and romantic ballads were brought from England by the colonists, but probably Mather’s “foolish songs and ballads” did not refer to these but rather to convivial, sentimental, or humorous ditties, the street pieces or broadsides popular in the mother country.
		Most songs, of either type, in the period before the Revolution, were probably imported, either orally or in broadside versions; but there were also historical pieces that were indigenous.
	www.bartleby.com /228/0403.html (853 words)

	Determinants of Didjeridu Style in Traditional and Popular Yolngu Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ancestral songs performed at public portions of ceremonies such as funerals and male circumcisions are referred to (in musicological literature) as 'clan songs' because each clan is associated with its own song repertoire.
		The song leader is often a respected elder or middle-aged clan leader with a large knowledge of song texts and musical patterns and the ability to organise performances involving many people and a voice that can hold up during many hours of daily performance.
		New song verses are enjoyed by dancers and other ceremony attendees both because of their frequent rhythmic vitality and because of their longer duration (generally one minute or more, compared with fifteen to thirty seconds for most other verses).
	www.didjeridu.com /wickedsticks/articles/style.htm (7568 words)

	Encyclopedia: Popular song
		Popular music, sometimes abbreviated pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are broadly popular.
		In the broader sense, "popular music" means any sort of music intended for mass consumption and propagated over the radio and similar media--in other words, music that forms part of popular culture.
		A narrower sense, usually rendered as "pop music", covers mainstream music that does not fall into any more specialized style such as jazz or hip hop.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Popular-song (824 words)

	novelty song -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		popular song that is either written and performed as a novelty or that becomes a novelty when removed from its original context.
		Regardless of which of these two categories applies, the assumption is that the song is popular because of its novelty, because it sounds different from everything else being played on the radio or jukebox.
		April 10, 2003, Kinston, N.C.), achieved timeless popularity in 1962 with her recording of “The Loco-Motion.” Little Eva, who was working as a babysitter for the songwriting duo Carole King and Gerry Goffin, made a demonstration recording of the dance-novelty song which they had written for another singer.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9117589?tocId=9117589 (718 words)

	Aesop's Fables - "a77" - 656+ fables
		THE BIRD OF POPULAR SONG IT is winter-time.
		Song doth not carry them forth over the lands, nor into the hearts of men; therefore I have no rest and no peace." And he spoke of his works, and of his warlike deeds, which his contemporaries had known, but which had not been sung, because there was no singer among his companions.
		We hear his song- we hear it now in the room while the white bees are swarming without, and the storm clutches the windows.
	www.pacificnet.net /~johnr/cgi/aesop1.cgi?hca&a77 (1099 words)

	Palestinian Popular Songs
		Barghouthi, A.: Arabic Popular Songs in Palestine and Jordan, Bir Zeit University, Bir Zeit, Palestine (1979).
		Dal'ona is the song of the Palestinian popular dance, dabka, where the dancers sing it along with the sound of shubbabah (flute), yarghool, or mijwiz.
		This is a popular song in weddings where people stand in two lines facing each other and sing.
	www.barghouti.com /folklore/songs (793 words)

	American Popular Song
		Behind the deluge of songs Wilder analyzed, of course, were the composers, the songwriters (to use the less dignified term most of them would have recognized) who created these popular songs.
		So much like hundreds of other songs, so banal in their melodic contrivances and harmonies, so trivial and derivative in their lyrics (the endless rhyming, in English, of "June" and "moon" became the object of many jokes).
		For most laypeople the songs were indissolubly connected to the lyrics that accompanied them (which was the case for musicians as well, most of the time).
	home.earthlink.net /~hsbecker/pops.html (3536 words)

	Rise of the Popular Song
		The origins of the popular song in America were the traditional melodies brought by immigrants from Europe.
		These folk songs included jigs such as Greensleeves from the 16th century, and fiddle tunes for dancing from the 17th century, and soldier songs from the 19th century such as Yankee Doodle.
		Popular Songs in American History website by Leslie Nelson has midi versions and words of songs arranged chronologically.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/snd/a-popular.html (555 words)

	Reform and Tradition in Early Vietnamese Popular Song -- ThingsAsian Article
		In the late 1930s a new popular song form that came to be called nhac cai cach, or reformed music, rapidly developed.
		Both the song and the cheo excerpt are centered on a tetrachord consisting of a pair of D-E and G-A dyads.
		The song itself is about the encounter of a man with a former love, who sings traditional Hue music, or ca Hue in a boat upon the Huong river.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.824.html (3455 words)

	Popular Music and Society: Images of Women in Popular Song Lyrics: A Bibliography
		The bipolar viewpoint of women as either perfect or imperfect is not uncommon in popular songs.
		If popular lyrics are to provide clues to the nature of womanhood, they must be viewed over time, in the very broadest occupational context, across stylistic genres, and against the background of a culture that has historically marginalized even the best and brightest female role models.
		Songs say things simply, directly, and (because they are played and replayed in various venues) repeatedly.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_4_22/ai_56952172 (1261 words)

	NYPL Digital Gallery \| American Popular Song Sheet Covers, 1890-1900
		Thousands of examples of the covers of popular American sheet music from 1890-1900, the first decade of a much larger collection that stretches to the present.
		Before the Music Division acquired the Goodwin collection, it regarded the collecting of popular sheet music as a secondary endeavor, but the Goodwin acquisition immediately made NYPL a major source for popular songs and remains so today.
		Song Dex treasury of humorous and nostalgic songs (c1956) 2 v.
	digitalgallery.nypl.org /nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=arts&collection=AmericanPopularSongS&col_id=148 (431 words)

	Making Sense of American Popular Song
		Tunes, lyrics, recordings, sheet music–all are components of popular songs, and all can serve as evidence of peoples, places, and attitudes of the past.
		Written by Ronald J. Walters and John Spitzer, Making Sense of American Popular Song provides a place for students and teachers to begin working with songs as a way of understanding the past.
		His current project is a study of the mass media and popular culture in twentieth-century America.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /mse/Songs (194 words)

	Coon Songs and racial stereotypes in American popular song.
		American popular music, as a reflection of society, was no exception and as a result, in our travels through the past, we encounter many, many songs that in today's society are offensive, mean spirited and uncomfortable to look at.
		A genre of comic song, popular from around 1880 to the end of World War I, with words in a dialect purporting to be typical of fl American speech.
		Coon songs were written in ignorance, much of today's Rap is written with malice, forethought and pure hatred in mind.) Because of the lyrics in Coon songs, none of these songs are seen or performed today as they were originally written.
	parlorsongs.com /insearch/coonsongs/coonsongs.asp (1910 words)

	BRAVO > Bravo in the Classroom > Popular Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This eight-part series traces the art and commerce of the pop song, from the European-influenced tunes and cotton-field chants of the turn of the 19th century to the dance-club beats of the turn of the 20th century.
		The importance of popular song, according to this series, can?t be overstated.
		Yet this series shows how similar they were in their approach to music (a return to the three-minute song) and to the marketplace (a manufactured look and attitude).
	www.bravotv.com /Bravo_in_the_Classroom/Print/Popular_Song.html (753 words)

	BeesWeb - Catch of the Day
		Popular with folk revivalists, a song from the Durham coalfields, of indeterminate age - Deleva and Segal Mines both saw industrial action on many occasions.
		One of those "pretending to be a toff" or 'toff fallen on hard times' songs, like "Burlington Bertie" or "We're a Couple Of Swells." Subtitled "The Optimistic Outcast'," a parody of the false values of aristocratic society.
		Strategically sung about an octave lower than Prince, one of the best pop songs of the 80s, by one of the best artists.
	www.richardthompson-music.com /catch_of_the_day.asp?id=118 (516 words)

	Most Popular: Most Popular Song in UK - a Blog about Most Popular Stuff in the World
		The song beat Eric Clapton's Layla, Imagine by John Lennon and Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones in a poll of 4,000 fans by Capital Gold.
		The song's composer, Freddie Mercury, never revealed his inspiration for his lyrics except to say that they were personal, about relationships.
		According to Brian May, the song was "really Freddie's baby from the beginning", but the task of realizing his ideas fell to Queen's producer at the time, Roy Thomas Baker.
	mostpopular.blogspot.com /2004/10/most-popular-song-in-uk.html (339 words)

	Nhac Tien Chien: The Origins of Vietnamese Popular Song -- ThingsAsian Article
		These songs were first heard by Vietnamese during the cai luong, or reformed, theatre of southern Vietnam in the late 1910s and 1920s.
		However, the strongest forces leading to the popularization of French songs were the introduction of ballroom dancing and sound motion pictures in the early 1930s.
		While this movement of new Western-influenced songs took off like wildfire among urban, educated youth, it was disliked and resisted by older feudalistic intellectuals, and largely ignored by the poor and rural citizenry.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.801.html (3529 words)

	Patchogue-Medford Library: Song Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is an index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library.
		In general, the index does not include collections of songs such as piano-vocal scores of musicals and films which can be easily located by other means.
		I want to thank the former director of the Patchogue-Medford Library, Sara Courant, for her advice and support on this project; the members of the Young Adult/Audio-Visual Department for their invaluable assistance; and the Reference Department staff who began this indexing effort when it was in manual form.
	pml.suffolk.lib.ny.us /songindex.php (129 words)

	Yesterday's Tomorrows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Songs of unions, churches, and political movements and parties tend to be songs of minorities to convince themselves and others of their rightness.
		However engineered their popularity may be, popular songs become the background to the lives of the greater number of people, creating an illusion of oneness around a theme.
		Country Joe's song based on his idea for a science fiction novel in which the world is so polluted that everyone moves into a geodesic dome.
	www.yesterdaystomorrows.org /ytdisc.html (2233 words)

	American Popular Song - Bound for Broadway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Before, musicals had either been operettas or plays with popular songs added in for their entertainment value.
		The most popular show of the time was Franz Lehar's operetta, The Merry Widow, which debuted in Vienna in 1905 and was later done in an English version in New York.
		"Popular songs from this period captured the imagination of a tremendously wide cross section of the American public, cutting across economic, social, and racial lines," says Pick.
	www.neh.fed.us /news/humanities/1999-09/popular_song.html (1910 words)

	Nebraska in Popular Song - Song List
		The song must be a bona-fide national pop, country, blues or jazz composition.
		All the songs have a food theme, and the cover features Love grinning as he prepares some good ol' Omaha steaks.
		The song's protagonist ponders whether "freaky" phenomena (finding a coin in her laundry, hearing a radio station play a song -- real Twilight Zone stuff) are signs that she should call her old love in Omaha.
	www.goletapublishing.com /nebraska/songs.htm (1297 words)

	In Search of American Popular Song
		That is not to say that there weren't songs that were popular, it is just that they weren't American in origin or style.
		One of the few hymns of the era that was both popular at the time and has survived today both as a popular song and in the repertoire of many church groups.
		This is a most significant development in the history of American popular music and will be one of the subjects of the next installment of "In Search of American Popular Song".
	parlorsongs.com /insearch/deadzone/insearch.asp (1117 words)

	Song Sheet: Remember Pearl Harbor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The song, "Remember Pearl Harbor"; described as a "March with spirit", was based on the popular saying of the day and became an instant hit with the public.
		It was played by every radio station and enthusiasticaly sung at every social, family and religious gatherings across the country.
		Another tremendously popular song at the times was; "Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition".
	my.execpc.com /~dschaaf/songnew.html (159 words)

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