The lecture began by filling in a questionnaire about our musical tastes, stretching across the class from Nirvana to Lady Gaga, then discussing what we thought pop music was and then looked at Williams' (1979) progression of the word, which started as “base or vulgar," and progressed to meaning "widely favoured." We looked at Kassabian's description of pop as" art and culture of the people" and why this was a dubious description - art of the people should be accessible, but T-Rex's Strange Orchestra showed that it wasn't, art of the people should be oppositional to "high culture" but sales of Nessun Dorma would argue otherwise.
Roy Shuker's definition of pop as a "hybrid," an "economic product," with "ideological significance." – was possibly the most all-encompassing definition possible.
By the end of the lecture, we had learnt that the idea of popular music was not as clear-cut as we may have thought.
I think you may have slightly got the wrong end of the stick as this is more of a diary than an answer to the question.
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