Pop Genre

Pop music was first established in the 1926, but later became official in the 1950's deriving from rock 'n' roll. As a genre, pop music is put together with different elemnts from different styles of music; for example: latin, rock, country and dance. The term pop music was first short for "popular music" but soon became a genre of its own.

Characteristics of a pop genre are:

an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology

an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities

an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance

a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments

much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms

These are some examples of pop songs:

Love146- Little Bird was a song played through loud speakers in trafalguar square in 2011 and put to a dance routine performed by a "Flash mob" with West End Stars.

The Beatles- Help! was recorded in 1965 on to a cassette tape, calling their album HELP! As times went on, Help! became a number 1 selling single.

Bibliography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music