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Where does pop collide?

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● jingle · one word, two constructs Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
pop2 CONSTRUCTSPop artLIPPARD · MASS IMAGERYPop musicMIDDLETON · MASS MUSIC

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Art history

Art from mass commercial imagery

Pop art is the mid-twentieth-century movement that drew its imagery from mass culture (advertising, comics, packaging, celebrity), reworking commercial visual language as fine art. Lippard's Pop Art surveys the movement and its leading figures. The referent is an art-historical movement and its aesthetic, abbreviating "popular," and it is a different construct from pop music or a skateboard's snap.[1]

Unit
A visual-art movement built on mass-commercial imagery
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified art-historically by period, imagery, technique, and artist

Music studies

Commercial popular music as a field

In music studies, pop (popular music) names the broad field of commercially produced, widely consumed music and the scholarly study of its forms, industry, and meanings. Middleton's Studying Popular Music sets out how the field can be analyzed without importing the assumptions of classical musicology. The referent is a musical-cultural category and its study, distinct from the art movement and from a skate maneuver, though it shares the "popular" root with pop art.[2]

Unit
The field of commercial popular music and its study
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Studied through musical analysis, industry data, and reception; charted commercially by sales and plays

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References

  1. Lippard, L. R. (1985). Pop art. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500200520
  2. Middleton, R. (1990). Studying popular music. Open University Press. ISBN 9780335152766

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