ABSTRACT
A popular music is defined as music with a wide appeal and frequently also distributed to large audiences through the channels of the music industry or the new media. Music genres have been chosen that have a strong regional or national identity in the cartography of music history. While they are recognizably vernacular inventions, they have achieved trans-local and some global presence. Quintessentially, the music genres are transcultural musical expressions by birth and development that move beyond the kind of cultural reflexivity that leads to the formation of a patria. Location and a cultural circumstances in other locales in the Americas fostered variations away from the narrow definition of jazz to encompass the “Other” and to absorb “native” rhythms and foster new “norms.” Critics and musicians like Wynton Marsalis have labelled and promoted America(s)’ classical music with the term jazz.
