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
Madge Allsop of books written by Barry Humphries since the mid-1970s. Photographs of Madge (as portrayed by Madeleine Orr) appeared in "Dame Edna's Coffee Table Book" (1976) and "The Sound of Edna: Dame Edna's Family Songbook" (1979). Because of Orr's death from cancer that same year, Madge was subsequently portrayed in Humphries' next book, "Dame Edna's Beside Companion" (1982), by an unidentified stand-in, whose entire head was concealed by bandages. For the purposes of the narrative, this was explained away by the claim that "Madge" had recently undergone cosmetic surgery. The character of Madge Allsop figured prominently in the book "My Gorgeous