Mainstream vs Antipop - What's the difference?

mainstream | antipop |

As a noun mainstream

is mainstream.

As an adjective antipop is

opposing mainstream pop music.

mainstream

English

(wikipedia mainstream)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Used or accepted broadly rather than by a tiny fraction of a population or market.

They often carry stories you won't find in the mainstream media.

Synonyms

* (used or accepted broadly) common, usual, widespread, conventional

Coordinate terms

* fringe

Noun

(en noun)

That which is common; the norm.

His ideas were well outside the mainstream , but he presented them intelligently, and we were impressed if not convinced.

Derived terms

*mainstreamism

Verb

(en verb)

To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.

Mainstreaming''' has become more common in recent years, as studies have shown that many '''mainstreamed''' students with mild learning disabilities learn better than their non-'''mainstreamed counterparts.

To popularize, to normalize, to render .

antipop

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Opposing mainstream pop music.

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 15, author=The New York Times, title=South by Southwest, Shot by Shot, work=New York Times citation

, passage=It extrapolates those ideas in antipop directions; the beat started amid feedback and reverb, then drove the music toward brick-walled dead ends, while Mr. Barnett repeated thoughts like “Strike me down” or “We’re being watched by experts.” }}

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 17, author=Jon Pareles, title=An Antipop Soundscape of Beats, Riffs, Throbs and Hisses, Full of Ideas, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Autechre’s soundscape is crowded and discordant, determinedly antipop . }}

* 2011 , Thomas Harrison, Music of the 1980s (page 143)

The song, “We've Saved the Best for Last,” became a wide mainstream hit as well, adding even more fuel to an antipop sentiment in jazz.