2) Popular Music is music produced for and sold to a broad audience. Indian popular music, which is most strongly influenced by Indian folk music is shaped by social, economic, and technological forces. Popular music is closely linked to the social identity of its performers and audiences.

3) Indian Popular Music has one of the world's most extensive popular music industries. Most Indian popular music is associated with the commercial film industry, centred on Mumbai, in which song-and-dance scenes are inserted into plots.

4) Film songs are heard all over India, in city streets and even in remote villages, and have also become one of the country's major cultural exports. It is a remarkably eclectic genre, borrowing freely from other Indian musics and popular music's from around the world, including some Western harmonic procedures.

10) I made a survey in which I found out that 90 % of the people whether they are of the new generation or the old say that music has lost its sentimental values. It is no longer made the way it used to be. These days the focus is not in giving a message but just to give some typical masala or dance sequence in the film. Where as the remaining 10 % say that the trends and traditional values are changing and in this ever changing world one must keep up to date.

11) I am in favour of both the groups because I think that Song like "jab tak rahe ga samse main aloo" or "dil ke gate ki name plate per likha hai tera nam" are degrading the Indian music industry. But these are the exceptions people like Javed Akhter,A.R. Rehman Yash Chopra and so many others are still there who respect the values of Indian music and cenima and make movies like dil se kuch kuch hota hai dil to pagal hai hum apke hai kaun. These are only a few of the indian movies which depict

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