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
Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia The Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia is a two volume encyclopedia of Canadian pop music, available in hardcover and online, detailing Canadian music from 1949 onwards. The "Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia" was started by Jaimie Vernon on July 1, 1998, as an online service of the "Toronto Sun" newspaper website CANOE. Vernon had been advised by music journalist John Sakamoto that the "Toronto Sun" had licensed a music encyclopedia, but that the company was not satisfied with it. They hired Vernon to write a new online edition in 1998. The encyclopedia was originally based on Vernon's association