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- The terms "folk music" and "pop music" also have more than one meaning.
- The folk music of a culture is the music that is passed down from one generation to the next, often without writing it down.
- In many cultures, pop music has largely replaced folk music as the music that everyone knows.
- The term pop music can refer to a specific kind of popular music, as in "bubblegum pop".
- Popular music is also a general term for any type of music that is or has been a top seller.
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- Many music traditions do not use scales.
- The most familiar of these to the Western listener are medieval chant and the classical music of India.
- In these and other modal traditions, the rules for constructing a piece of music are quite different than the rules for music that is based on a scale.
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- Much of the music that is popular today cannot really be classified as completely Western or Non-Western.
- Most American popular musics also grew out of this blending of traditions.
- The term World Music is often used as a catch-all category referring to almost any music with widespread popularity that clearly does not sound like North American popular music.
- Folk and traditional music from around the world is also sometimes included, but the most popular genres in this category tend to be those, such as Flamenco, Hungarian folk, and Celtic music, that are easy for Western-trained ears to understand.
- African-American traditions are so basic to popular music that they are generally not included in World music, but other North American traditions, such as Native American and Cajun traditions, sometimes are.
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