I just read an intriguing article dealing with the history of popular music, including the differences and historical relevance of pop and rock.
Some quotes from the reading are below…
“…musicians could rarely read music but learned their craft through imitating the blues guitarists of the past, and by solitary practice…Rock culture was a way of making ’serious’ that was free from the institutional and stylistic demands of art music”
“…rock was at pains to distinguish itself from ‘low culture’; in this case, the mass-produced, commercial popular music…”
“Music was to have meaning…It was to be about ‘ultimate things’.”
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