To what extent can Pop Music genres be considered as hybridised involving the combinations of musical styles?

... Heading: To what extent can Pop Music genres be considered as hybridised involving the combinations of musical styles? Author: Henry Benjamin Wharton Module title: Definitions of Popular Music Module code: 4MS004 Assignment number: 2 Date: 13th May 2003 The dictionary defines hybridity as something of mixed origin or composition. This is exactly the definition we can apply to the above question. Within Pop Music there are always changes happening. Genres mould into each other until it is impossible to put a song or record into one definite genre or sub-genre. This is called hybridisation. Answering the question is actually quite simple. It would be easy to just say that genres within pop music are straightforward to define. If something has a flat four drum pattern and a loud bass we can categorise it as dance. Where it gets difficult is when we try to sub-categorise it. There are so many different genres within dance that we need to break

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