pop music and where it came from

Introduction

By it's very definition Pop (short for popular) is the most POPULAR music genre. The fragmentation of popular music into discrete niches has meant that fewer performers are able to transcend their specific genres to attain a kind of cultural consensus that seemed possible in the past. Yet Shumway's tired lament reveals less about why this change has occurred than it does about the stranglehold that baby boomers continue to have over received knowledge about the history of modern popular music.Pop music is shorter way of writing popular music. Pop music came from the Rock ...