Towards a Topography of Hybridization in US Urban Popular Music.

The article presents a paper that intends to explore the transition and migration of urban popular or pop music in the U.S. society. It mirrors the movement and conceptualization that interlink in furthering the hybridization of such music. It cites several analyses which are presented by writers or researchers such as Shannon Dudley, George O. Carmey, and Stephen Greenblatt. The author relates that migration of people contributes the dissemination of pop music genre as cultural mobility directly affects societal change. Whereas the author, amidst all assumptions, still wants to clarify the motion of the musical genres for the lucidity of the origin of urban popular music. He projects that ethnic and aesthetic aspects should be foreseen as the investigation continues.