1. Popular Music and Contemporary U.S. Culture
Characteristically, popular music is a global cultural phenomenon and an accessible form of commercial music aimed at a worldwide audience. ... For fans and enthusiasts, popular music can be a leisure-time pursuit occurring on evenings or weekends; alternatively, it can constitute a lifestyle, or way of life (e.g., Deadheads-a group of fans of the American band Grateful Dead who saw the band at as many gigs and festivals as possible from the 1970s onward). ... Studies of popular music encompass a range of approaches from musicological, whereby music is commonly analyzed as a text, to sociologi...
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