Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the population, whereas pop music usually refers to a specific musical genre within popular music. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or "folk" music.
These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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