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
Geoffrey Douglas Madge Geoffrey Douglas Madge Geoffrey Douglas Madge (born 3 October 1941) is an Australian classical pianist and composer. Madge won the 1963 ABC Concerto and Vocal Competition. Madge is known for performing long and arduous works. He was the first to record Leopold Godowsky's "Studies on Chopin's Études", once described as "the most impossibly difficult things ever written for the piano". He has twice recorded Sorabji's "Opus clavicembalisticum", one of the longest and most difficult works ever written for the piano. In 1982, 52 years after the first public performance (by the composer), Madge gave the work its second public performance.