Talk:Music Theory/Pop

While not being a wikibooks member, may I make a casual observation about this page?

It's poor in quality. The author(s) don't know what they are talking about, and the article contains factual errors (Boy bands were not first introduced in the 90s for example) The whole thing really doesnt contribute to the wikibooks project. This short thing isn't of any use to anyone, and someone should really work on this page. But not me. An expert.


 * Agreed. "Motown is one example, which was a group of black singers & songwriters on the Motown record label"?? Motown is a group on the Motown label? The 80s "gave birth" to bubblegum? (Tell that to the 1910 Fruitgum Co.). And so on. This is beyond poorly written: there are typos, nonsense text, factual errors. Editing it would mean deleting all the text and starting again. Oy. Freshacconci 18:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

DID NOT START IN THE 1950's
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Who wrote this? And how did they get their information? Pop music definately didn't start in the 1950's it started YEARS before that. In fact the first person we could give recognition to in terms of starting Popular american music was Stephen Foster in the mid 19th Century around 140-1860.

Pop music was dissiminated in the forms of sheet music and started a LONG time before 1950. In fact, if you think that Pop started in the 50's what of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby? They were certainly considered to be in the pop music mainstream 20 and 10 years earlier.

1970's and onward
I will continue to work on this article later from the 1970's onward, as I did not write those, and they contain factual errors and are poorly written, even though a lot of the previous stuff needs some editing as well. I'll get back to it when I am not so busy.

This is a terrible wikibook. Green Day is not a band from the 2000's, sure, they are still around, but they are a nineties band. Would you say that Bob Dylan is a 2000's performer because he is still around? Pop music has existed since music. Its changed a lot, but its always been around. A powerchord is a chord that only has the 1 and 5 intervals. The exclusion of the 3rd does not constitute a powerchord. A suspended chord has no third, and is not a powerchord. Instead of working on this article, I would recommend deleting it altogether, and maybe doing some serious research on this topic. Berklee College of Music offers a great class called the history of pop music, which goes back to the early 1800's. You might want to consider taking it if you want to write this article.

Lots of history, not much theory
Heading says all.

Also, the article seems to be about mainstream music ('popular music') more than it is about the simple-melody four-chords genre of music which as far as I can tell did in fact start in the 50s or 60s (and I am very willing to be shown to be wrong here). Jazz... isn't pop. Folk... isn't pop. 143.92.1.33 (discuss) 09:08, 7 November 2012 (UTC)