Throughout centuries the meaning behind popular has changed. In early 16th Century, what was referred to as popular meant that it was ‘low or base, vulgar, of the common people’ as Raymond Williams (1976) proclaimed, though the term became widely favoured as a synonym for good by the 18th Century. Anahid Kassabian believed ‘popular’ to arise from and of the ‘folk’. Meaning that such people create music for their own enjoyment, creativity or expression which is usually home-made. Although in todays understanding of popular, ‘folk’ appears to be in opposition. With the control of business enterprises surrounding popular music, profit becomes a large motive for musicians. Additionaly the commercial orientation of popular music takes music away from its grassroots ‘folk’ level, and thus its consumption is what makes music popular, as Robert Burnett informs ‘when we speak of popular music we speak of music that is commerically orientated.’ Therefore when music is commercialised, sells, and becomes favoured (whatever the genre) it becomes pop music.
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