Pop music sampling (from the 1980s) have also been utilized as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like MTV, which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal". The latter half of the 20th-century included a large-scale trend in American culture in which the boundaries between art and pop music were increasingly blurred. Between 1950 and 1970, there was a debate of pop versus art. Since then, certain music publications have embraced
John Madge John Madge John Madge was an English sociologist and brother of Charles Madge. His book "The Tools of Social Science" (1953) is a clearly presented and quite readable handbook on research methodology in Sociology and related social sciences. He also wrote "The Origins of Scientific Sociology" (1959), and a number of books on Urban Sociology. Born in 1914, Madge was the son of Lieut Col. C. A. Madge and Barbara, née Hylton Foster, and like his father was educated at Winchester College and the University of Cambridge. The two Madges were active in the Cambridge University Socialist Society. Cyril Bibby