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American popular music has helped to define us as a culture, to bind us together and is a constant reminder of our national identity. Traditional pop music has been used as a common interest to unite disparate groups. Now for the first time you can listen to your favorite popular American songs and discover traditional pop standards that will soon become your favorites.
Traditional pop or Classic pop or Standards music denotes, in general, Western (and particularly American) popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the appearance of rock and roll, and its offshoots, as the dominant commercial music of the United States and Western culture. The terms pop standards or (where relevant) American standards are used to denote the most popular and enduring songs from this style of music. More generally, the term ’standard’ can be used to describe any popular song that has become very widely known within mainstream culture.