But something else happened on the day Bowie died: the communal experience of pop took a new, 21st-century form, with an old-fashioned medium, radio, at the heart of it.
Still, Mathis says the experience of pop stardom today is virtually unrecognizable to someone who came up in his generation.
In Riley's opinion, the album "drew people together through the common experience of pop on a larger scale than ever before".
Denny has some experience of pop-ups: five years ago, he started his own small music festival, LeeFest, in his back garden, and he still runs it each summer, albeit from a larger venue.
Colors consists of narrow bands of colour sliding across a screen while (at least in the bit I experienced) fragments of pop pulse on the soundtrack.
Now he hopes youngsters with their eyes on the music industry will benefit from his own experience of fickle pop fame.
I do have experience of the pop world and the academic world but not to the extent of knowing a great deal of what it feels like to be honoured within their respective rituals (though I have been conferred as a visiting professor a couple of times and I have appeared on Top of the Pops [performing TV by The Flying Lizards in 1979]).
Pascu voiced his opposition to the singing competitions phenomenon, stating that as a one-time member of the Mamaia Festival jury, he had a "bittersweet" experience of Romanian pop politics.
In the past 15 years female country stars like Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Lee Ann Womack and the Dixie Chicks have all experienced some degree of pop success.
Although several quantitative studies have investigated these issues, qualitative research may be a complementary tool for capturing the perceptions and experiences of women with POP [ 6].
