evolution of pop

Loving any kind of music is great, but the cultural implications about said music always change dynamically. A couple of years ago, I read

Ted Gioia’s “Music: A Subversive History,” in which he promotes an idea of an institutionalization cycle that music experiences – an idea that has stuck with me ever since.

Essentially, it implies that all

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I feel squeamish about trying to define the genre of pop music but I will say one thing: For something to be widely popular, it must be accessible. The “I” of the pop song, the “you” or “tú”, the speaker or audience, is meant to be nebulous and interchangeable. A singer could be talking about their dog, their recently deceased mother, an old lover,

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