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Pop music has permeated all the mass media— radio, television, cinema and the press. Yet, what is it? It obviously means more than just popular. Mozart is popular but he is certainly not pop. The Oxford English Dictionary cannot help those who are trying to find more or less exact definition to the word "pop".

Music is the "art of combining sounds with a view to beauty of form and expression of emotion." Good music, like any good art, is characterized by its lasting qualities. From this point of view, pop music may be seen as the antithesis of music.

Pop music appeared in the mid-50s with the arrival of rock'n'roll. In the course of time rock came out of fashion, and moreover, every comedian added to his repertoire jokes about guitarists and singers in hippy-like wigs. Yet, rock and its hybrids still form the mainstream of pop.

A long-standing criticism of pop songs is that "You can't hear the words. About 99 per cent of songs are about "love", and mostare not worth listening to. On the other hand, those songs which have a lot to say are all too frequently pieces of literatureaccompanied by guitars. Folk-singer Bob Dylan provided many examples of this. He can sing poetically about death, war, class attitude and justice.

A fairly simple message with a good melody has been found by the Beatles and occasionally by the other groups. Some of the Beatles' old songs still enjoy popularity today.

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