Popular music

The term popular music belongs to a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed orally, or to smaller, local audiences. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music is a generic term for music of all ages that appeals to popular tastes, whereas pop music usually refers to a specific musical genre within popular music. The song structure of popular music commonly involves the verse, chorus or refrain, and bridge as the different sections within a piece. With digital access to music, some popular music forms have become global, while others are have wide appeal within the culture of origin. Through hybridity, or mixture across musical genres, new popular music forms are able to be manufactured to reflect the ideals of a global culture. The examples of the African continent, Indonesia, and the Middle East explain how hybridity can develop into new forms of popular music.

Popular Music (film)

Popular Music (Swedish: Populärmusik från Vittula) is a 2004 Swedish comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Mikael Niemi.

Cast

  • Niklas Ulfvarson - Matti (age 7)
  • Max Endefors - Matti (15)
  • Tommy Vallikari - Niila (age 7 år)
  • Andreas af Enehielm - Niila (age 15)
  • Björn Kjellman - Greger
  • Jarmo Mäkinen - Isak, father of Niila
  • Kati Outinen - Päivi, mother of Niila
  • Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala - Grandmother
  • External links

  • Popular Music at the Internet Movie Database
  • References


    Popular Music from Vittula

    Popular Music from Vittula (Swedish: Populärmusik från Vittula) is a novel by Mikael Niemi. It was published in Sweden in 2000, the English translation by Laurie Thompson followed in 2003. A film based on the book was released in 2004.


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    Popular Music

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    Take a small bite of your meat-loaf and share it with the throne
    Tie the tie, you're a handsome date rapist
    Put some faces, put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
    Lick them with the knowledge that you don't know where they've been
    Just like a quarter
    Fake like you care and you'll get to go home with her tonight
    Tell the friends, you're their biggest hero
    Put some faces, put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
    Lick them with the knowledge that you don't know where they've been
    Just like a quarter on the sidewalk
    Starving smiles, so pretty
    It will always be this way
    No one here is innocent
    No one here is on his knees
    No one here has got some problems
    No one here is a rapist, racist, high-blood pressure, short-tempered
    Your face has filled out a bit but you're respectable
    Keep it sharp, keep on smiling, we're happy
    Put some faces put some smiles, and all that garbage in your mouth
    Share them with your children though you don; t know where they've been




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