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Hmm. That's a whole can of worms, Legba. 'Popism' certainly exists in as much as there are people who describe their own approach to music using that term and there are even more people who use it to describe other people's approach to music. However, like many 'isms', nobody can decide exactly what it is. In addition, some people don't like the term because it seems to position itself as the flipside to 'rockism', which has its own bunch of problems (largely 'cos it's almost exclusively used perjoratively).
I prefer 'pro-pop' which is pretty self-explanatory, or 'poptimism', which is also the name of a London club night (and has a loosely affiliated Livejournal community). To my mind, poptimism suggests a combination of John Peel's belief that this year is always the best year for music (because you have all the good new stuff and the good old stuff is still there for you to enjoy), with a generous outlook which believes that good pop, in the broadest possible sense of the word 'pop', can come from anywhere, however unlikely. But again, there are people who might describe themselves as poptimists who have a different take on it.
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