Walk On By The Story Of Popular Song ( BBC Documentary 2, 23)
Musicologist and specialist in popular music Philip Tagg defined the notion in the light of sociocultural and economical aspects: Popular music, unlike art music, is (1) conceived for mass distribution to large and often socioculturally heterogeneous groups of listeners, (2) stored and distributed in nonwritten form, (3) only possible in an industrial monetary economy where it becomes a commodity and (4) in capitalist societies, subject to the laws of free enterprise, according to which it should ideall
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