American Popular Music Americans love music, it’s an absolute necessity in our everyday lives. At football games, on commercials, movies and television shows, on radios and through our smart phones. Music is everywhere. Work songs, hymns, love songs, dance tunes, humorous songs, and parodies—such songs provide a record of American history. Pop music (as it has become known) is a genre of music that came to popularity in the 1950’s. One could consider it a branch off rock and roll that is a little more mellow and relatable. Pop music is probably the most flexible of all music genre’s, it can mold itself to fit a variety of musical styles such as; dance, country, Latin etc. Some of the earliest of American popular songs were associated with
