When did "pop music" become synonymous with "music"?

[jancivil]

washing machine in 5/4? cant have been a zanussi. strictly 4/4 from them.

heh

probably a Whirlpool.

IIRC one of the cycles truncated to 9/8 or maybe 19/16...

jazz washing machines, whoda thunk it?

American ingenuity!

Did you know that at one time, during the 'Cold War' there was a strong thrust by the Powers That Be to use jazz, modern jazz that is, and Abstract Expressionism and other schools of avant-garde art as propaganda against the Reds? I mean the commies, not the Cincinnati ballclub.

[fmr]

With the advent of Sound...

IE: that isn't music!


actually Varese, and iirc this was shortly before the 25-yrs period of 'no music from me' he started calling himself an organizer of sounds rather than a composer of music.

Oh yes, it is music.

I'm the very opposite of the person you'll have to convince.

I was working with the rhetoric:
Q: 'When did "pop music" become synonymous with "music"?'
A: 'With the advent of Sound.'

IE: when that started happening the stick-in-the-mud might say 'That isn't music!'.

I see...

[rp314]

With the advent of Sound...

Great collection of classics from the "old" avant-garde.

You realize that in about 15 years some of us hopefully still around freaks will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Varese?

The music, of course, to these ears still sounds wonderfully young...

[dark water]

I can't say when pop music became synonymous with music.

But I can tell you that pop music finished with Boney M.