Later, beginning in 1982 with The Pogues ' invention of Celtic folk-punk and Stockton's Wing blend of Irish traditional and Pop, Rock and Reggie, there has been a movement to incorporate Celtic influences into other genres of music.

* List of singer-songwriters – see also Pop music and Rock music

During the tour Bowie's observation of two seminal American proto-punk artists led him to develop a concept that would eventually find form in the Ziggy Stardust character: a melding of the persona of Iggy Pop with the music of Lou Reed, producing " the ultimate pop idol ".

Working with Brian Eno while sharing an apartment in Schöneberg with Iggy Pop, he began to focus on minimalist, ambient music for the first of three albums, co-produced with Tony Visconti, that would become known as his Berlin Trilogy.

The Edge Festival ( formerly known as T on the Fringe ), a popular music offshoot of the Fringe, began in 2000, replacing the smaller Flux and Planet Pop series of shows.

While at KRLA, Shearer also interviewed Creedence Clearwater Revival for the Pop Chronicles music documentary.

Pop music really started in the South Asian region with the famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song ‘ Ko-Ko-Korina ’ in 1966.

After that, much of Indian Pop music comes from the Indian Film Industry, and until the 1990s, few singers like Usha Uthup, Sharon Prabhakar, and Peenaz Masani outside it were popular.

He is creator of the Anadolu Pop style, a synthesis of Anatolian Music and Western elements that has been influencing Turkish music scene for decades.

The majority of the tracks on Nirvana's albums fell into that broad genre of contemporary popular music, not easily categorized but perhaps best described as the baroque or chamber strand of " progressive rock, soft rock or " orchestral pop " and " Chamber Pop ".

Pop music ( a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of " popular ") is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll.

Pop music is generally thought of as a genre which is commercially recorded and desires to have a mass audience appeal.

Pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged ".

Pop music has been dominated by the American and ( from the mid-1960s ) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics.

Canned Heat's Alan Wilson also helped bring slide guitar to the rock music industry in the late 1960s which he used frequently during concerts to create a buzzing delta blues boogie which can be heard on tracks such as London Blues, I Love My Baby, Sandy Blues, and countless others and can also be seen during their performances at the Monterey Pop Festival on Rollin and Tumblin ' and at Woodstock During Woodstock Boogie and On The Road Again.

In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars ' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet ; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop ; and his third child, Sullivan, was born.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

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According to critic Greil Marcus, the band, led by singer Iggy Pop, created " the sound of Chuck Berry's Airmobile — after thieves stripped it for parts ".

What the final intrusion of Pop into the citadels of High Art provides, therefore, for the critic is the exhilarating new possibility of making judgments about the ' goodness ' and ' badness ' of art quite separated from distinctions between ' high ' and ' low ' with their concealed class bias.

Ithell Colquhoun supported his claim to have been a proto-Surrealist and posthumously the critic Mario Amaya made the case for Spare as a Pop Artist.

More Disumbrationist paintings followed: a composition of zig-zag lines and eyeballs he called " Illumination "; a garish picture of a black woman doing laundry which he called " Aspiration ", and which a critic praised as " a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy, with a lot of Jerdanowitch individuality "; " Gination ", an ugly, lopsided portrait ; and a painting named " Adoration ", of a woman worshipping an immense phallic idol, which was exhibited in 1927.

According to critic Greil Marcus, the band, led by singer Iggy Pop, created " the sound of Chuck Berry's Airmobile — after thieves stripped it for parts ".

For example, in writing about Mariah Carey, critic Sasha Frere-Jones characterised her music as " appeal to people who don't, otherwise, listen to Pop.

In the essay " Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage " critic Lester Bangs calls the album a " documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control.

Also in 1998, O ' Barr and editor Ed Kramer asked an array of fiction writers, poets and artists ( including Gene Wolfe, Alan Dean Foster, Charles de Lint, Jack Dann, Jane Yolen, Henry Rollins and Iggy Pop ) to interpret this Gothic fiction phenomenon.

After the Newport Pop Festival appearance, White began to express dissatisfaction with the band's drummer, Kevin Kelley, and soon persuaded McGuinn and Hillman to replace Kelley with Gene Parsons ( no relation to Gram ), a friend of White's from their days together in the band Nashville West.

Dunning replaced Stout on guitar for the recording of Pop Smear and remained in the band for their three RCA records.

Sociologist Shayne Lee commented that, " s Janet enters the twilight of her reign as erotic Queen of Pop, Beyoncé Knowles emerges as her likely successor.

" Terry Sawyer of Pop Matters Online commented " While it's been said that Brandy's voice isn't exactly a barn burner, it's not mentioned enough that she does more than enough with what she's got.

Daniel Fidler of Spin called the album " a clean move toward musical excellence " and commented that it " shows the band bursting its Sub Pop chains with catchy, heavy guitar riffs, downright lovable song arrangements, melodies that jerk your emotions back and forth, and yes, endearing, raspy vocals that wail, moan, scream, and shout ".

Both LeMay and Pop Matters's Devon Powers commented on the " clichéd ", " cringe-worthy " lyrics of " Sleeping In ".

Nitsuh Abebe from Pitchfork Media, in a review of their compilation album Pop Art: Pet Shop Boys-The Hits commented that in the song " we meet Tennant not as a singer, but as a speaker ", adding that " he mumbles the verses to us not like a star, but like a stranger in a raincoat, slinking alongside you and pointing out the sights ".

James Griffiths of The Guardian commented, " Here comes the Queen of Pop in a box so shiny you can see your face in it.

Hardly had Grant established herself as the " Queen of Christian Pop " when she changed directions to widen her fan base ( and hence her musical message ).

In 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor, in which she rejected disco for mid-tempo R & B and Pop style songs.

After a three-year break, she released her first full-length Spanish album, Mi Plan, and Furtado received a Latin Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Album.

) Newton-John also continued to reach the Country Top 10 where she tallied seven Top 10 singles through 1976's " Come on Over " ( No. 23 Pop, No. 5 Country, No. 1 AC ) and six consecutive ( of a career nine total ) Top 10 albums through 1976's Don't Stop Believin ' ( No. 30 Pop, No. 7 Country ).

Later that year, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits ( No. 13 Pop, No. 7 Country ) became her first platinum album as she prepared to launch a new phase in her career.

In 1998, she returned to Nashville to record Back with a Heart ( No. 59 Pop ).

) In 2007, she re-teamed with her Grace and Gratitude producer, Amy Sky, for Christmas Wish ( No. 187 Pop ) which was sold exclusively by Target in its first year of release.

" By forging her own unique identity through her artistry and her business ventures, she has been esteemed as the " Queen of Pop ".

By the late 1970s she was one of Australia's top singing stars, winning several Queen of Pop awards and hosting her own national TV variety series.

* Toni Braxton, Pop / R & B Singer, though was never a Glen Burnie resident she attended at Glen Burnie High School and lived close by in Severn, Maryland

In 2000, she won an International Achievement award and in 2004, won Pop Album of the Year for Afterglow and again shared the Songwriter of the Year award with Pierre Marchand for the singles " Fallen ", " World on Fire ", and " Stupid.

The lead single from the album " Before You " became a huge radio hit in Canada and she performed the single on the 2000 Juno Awards, where she won two awards for Best Adult / Pop Album and Best Female Artist.

While she is in hospital, the song " I Fall to Pieces " becomes a big Country / Pop crossover hit for Cline.

Her ninth album, Gran City Pop ( 2009 ) had a fresh and original concept, and focused in vision, to reflect Paulina's life and musical experiences she had while traveling the world.

In 2005, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for " Best Latin Pop Vocal Album.

In 1979 Manchester made # 10 with her version of Peter Allen's " Don't Cry Out Loud ", for which she received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal Performance.

It is unclear how much Archie writers other than Holly Golightly ( the writer of " Friendly Fire ") portrayed Betty and Cheryl as friends, but a story in Archie & Friends in early 2006 involves Betty suggesting that she, Veronica, and Cheryl go to Pop Tate's Chock ' lit Shoppe and hang out.

Its music video, in which she parodies celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Paris Hilton, won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video.

In addition, she also recorded four songs for the film's soundtrack, including the Top 20 Pop hit, " Can't Fight the Moonlight.

Nominated for her success, she faced tough competition for " Best Pop " and " Best Female " at the MTV Romania Music Awards 2005, the latter she went onto win.