Walk On By - The Story Of Popular Song (BBC Documentary 2/23)

Musicologist and specialist in popular music Philip Tagg defined the notion in the light of sociocultural and economical aspects: “Popular music, unlike art music, is (1) conceived for mass distribution to large and often socioculturally heterogeneous groups of listeners, (2) stored and distributed in non-written form, (3) only possible in an industrial monetary economy where it becomes a commodity and (4) in capitalist societies,subject to the laws of ’free’ enterprise, according to which it should ideall