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Originally Posted by Norma J
Pavement have made some great Pop songs.
I partially read a book once where it studied Theodor Adorno's concept of Pop music. The opposite of Pop music being 'Serious Music', as he put it. Pop, being 'popular' (obviously), but in the sense of 'popular song structure'. There's a set structure that a song can be established upon that can be classified as Pop, or a Pop song. Where as serious music, would be, say, Sonic Youth. A band that follow their subconcious, if you want, who have no set structure, or a structure that doesn't necessarly follow a popular foundation anyway.
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everyone should read adorno, particularly his essays on the culture industries, such as hollywood and the business of selling culture to the masses, i recall adorno also did make refernce to the then music business companies who were intrinsically tied to the film industry due to cross ownership etc....