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Foundations of Pop Music

What Is Pop? Definitions, Aesthetics, and Industry Context

Listening Frameworks: Form, Harmony, Rhythm, and Production

Historical Evolution of Pop

From Tin Pan Alley to Rock ’n’ Roll (1900s–1960s)

Studio Revolution and Global Pop (1970s–1990s)

Digital, Streaming, and Algorithmic Pop (2000s–Present)

Subgenres, Scenes, and Global Influences

Pop’s Adaptive Engine: Subgenres and Crossovers

Case Studies in Global Pop Movements

Technology, Business Models, and Culture

Tools and Platforms That Shape Sound and Success

Pop as Culture: Identity, Community, and Fandom

Applied Analysis and Capstone

Analytical Toolkit: How to Deconstruct a Pop Hit

Capstone: Trend Report and Subgenre Mapping

Assessments

Quiz: Foundations and Listening Frameworks

Quiz: Early to Mid Pop History

Quiz: Late 20th Century to Pre-Streaming

Quiz: Streaming, Viral Mechanics, and Globalization

Quiz: Technology, Business Models, and Culture

Course Survey: Feedback and Reflection

Global Pop Music: History, Drivers, Trends, and Subgenres is a comprehensive, ear-training-meets-industry course that explains how hits are made, why they travel worldwide, and where the next wave will come from. You’ll learn to hear pop like a producer and think like a strategist—connecting form, harmony, rhythm, and production choices to business models, platforms, and fan cultures. From Tin Pan Alley to TikTok, we trace the technologies and institutions that shaped the sound: labels and publishers, charts and streaming, DAWs and AI, plus the visual engines of MTV to short-form video. Along the way, you’ll map pop’s adaptive engine—how mainstream pop absorbs and reframes rock, R&B, hip-hop, EDM, country, and global movements including K-pop, reggaeton, Afrobeats, and Amapiano. Through frameworks, case studies, and an applied capstone, you’ll develop the analytical toolkit to deconstruct a hit, identify market signals, and forecast near-term trends. Ideal for creators, marketers, A&R and sync professionals, journalists, and curious listeners, this course balances musical analysis with real-world context so you can speak the language of pop across creative, commercial, and cultural domains.

Global Pop Music: History, Drivers, Trends, and Subgenres

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            <p>Pop is not a fixed genre so much as a moving target shaped by listeners, markets, and technology. This course traces how that target formed and keeps shifting—musically, culturally, and commercially—across a century of sound. You will establish core foundations by defining pop against adjacent styles and by learning its hallmark aesthetics: hook writing, verse–pre-chorus–chorus architectures, vocal centrality, and production polish. Alongside musical form and harmony, we’ll build a practical listening framework that decodes rhythm, groove, topline design, and the producer’s role as co-author. Just as crucial, we map the industry ecosystem—labels, A&R, publishers, charts, streaming platforms, and social media—to understand how metrics from radio spins to viral snippets determine what becomes “pop.”</p>

<p>From Tin Pan Alley and Brill Building craft to Motown precision and the British Invasion, the course follows pop’s historical evolution through studio revolutions, MTV’s visual economy, and the rise of synths, drum machines, and multi-track production. We then examine the digital-to-algorithmic era: DAWs democratize creation, intros shrink for playlist culture, and virality reshapes songwriting cadence. Global currents take center stage as K-pop’s industrial model, Latin pop and reggaeton’s dembow engine, and Afrobeats/Amapiano’s groove-forward signatures reconfigure mainstream taste. You’ll study how pop absorbs and reframes subgenres—from electro- and dance-pop to country-pop, trap-pop, hyperpop—and interrogate cultural exchange, credit, and power in crossovers.</p>

<p>Technology and business models are treated as creative constraints and catalysts. We explore sampling ethics, vocal tuning and stems, AI voice models, recommendation systems, and data-driven A&R, alongside monetization paths from masters and publishing to UGC, touring, and brand partnerships. Culture is equally central: identity and image-making, stan communities and fan labor, and the cycles of moral panic, backlash, and reinvention that define pop eras. Throughout, applied work anchors theory: an analytical toolkit trains you to inventory hooks, map structures, analyze harmony and production choices, and connect musical decisions to platform strategies and audience targets. The capstone synthesizes these skills into a trend report and subgenre map, linking today’s charts and viral tracks to the historical, technological, and global currents that drive pop—now and next.</p>
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