Music critic Artemy Troitsky published a new book "Poplex" by "Amphora" published. «Poplex" - an encyclopedia of modern pop music terms, that is, a reference book, full of strong, objective information, and only occasionally supplemented the author position. The first version of the publication, the name of the "Lexicon" was composed of a quarter of a century ago, according to Intermedia. After a few years, "Lexicon" in several issues of the magazine "Musical Life" was published, and in 1989 or 1990 in Novosibirsk, hundreds of thousands of copies of a book was "pop encyclopedia," publish the full text of journal articles. In this issue was absolutely forbidden. The author of more than 20 years, forgotten the existence of the book until I found by chance the original manuscript. It had to be edited and very thorough supplement. Building went in two directions: to bring the dictionary to the trends of today and of the attraction of domestic material. «Poplex" covers areas such as "Basic Concepts", which dealt with the concept of "show business", "music industry", "Pop", "mainstream", "underground" and others ", Styles and Trends" section, the rock, pop music and dance styles to describe. In the "Media and Business Terminology" readers can use the value of words such as "phono records", "booking", "sales", "chart", etc., and the "music slang" contains comprehensive indexes in book terms. The book was published in hardcover 256 pages.
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