1 for or involving ordinary people rather than experts or very educated people: --
2 liked, enjoyed, or admired by many people or by most people in a particular group: --
In-line skating is increasingly popular.
3 involving or relating to ordinary people or to all the people who live in a country or area: --
The questions raised by medieval music reception reach to musicological fields outside medieval studies, but especially ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
Although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed only as singers, a traditionally feminine position in popular music.
As an integrated statement of where popular music studies is in relation to wider contexts, the book is perhaps less successful.
My analysis begins with a sketch of how recordings entered local popular life in the early decades of this century.
Undoubtedly they have been aimed at a relatively wide, popular market.
Algorithmic aesthetics are developed based on the aesthetic measure theory, surveys of human preferences, and popular long-lasting symbols.
Emphasis on popular culture may, at first sight, appear to exclude older people especially with its focus on material consumption.
Interestingly, work with ' poor people ' was most popular by the end of the course.
