If pop means popular, was classical music once called pop and disliked by the elders of the time for being too hip? Will pop be called classical?

Future generations hundreds of years from now listening to weird Al whilst relaxing in a spa



On a side note, if we all get dropped back into the stone age only musicians will be able to pass down what they can remember, everything is digital an online

Last Edited by Madmurdoch on 03/11/2024 10:48 AM

Popular meaning “of the population”. Classical music was institution of the elites, so no, it was never popular music. The popular music of the time would be considered folk music, shantys etc

In fact, the entire reason the term popular music was created was to form a distinction between institutional classical and church music, and the music of the people.

A better point of contention on the the term would be jazz. At one point it was thoroughly popular music, but over time it became institutionalized by university music programs that have been teaching it like classical form. One could argue that is a a form whose status as popular music has changed over time.

AI Logics says: Classical music is using very old 'popular' componist's compositions with classical instruments playing those.