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Popular Music

Popular music, or ‘pop music', means ‘music of the populace'. The term embraces all kinds of folk music which, originally made by illiterate people, were not written down.

The creation of a popular music that aims simply at entertaining large numbers of people is a product of industrialisation, in which music became a commodity to be bought and sold. It is in the rapid industrialised nations, notably Britain and USA, that we first encounter composers who have devoted themselves to fulfilling a demand for popular, entertainment music.

· Foster
Stephen Foster (Born Lawrenceville in 1826; died in New York in 1864)

Foster was an American composer, mainly self-taught in music. He wrote over 200 songs, several of which have come to be regarded almost as American folk-songs. Though a Northerner, several of his songs capture the Southern plantation spirit in an authentic and eloquent manner. His songs are considered as ‘escapist', through nostalgia. All......

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