popstream
nounEtymology Blend of pop + mainstream.
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No plural The musical mainstream, as typified by pop music.
- Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 420:
- Genuine remixers of sound and traditions, and typically estranged from the cultural popstream, each of these cultural brokers maintained vast collections of fresh material enabled by networks of exchange […]2013, Simone Krüger, Ruxandra Trandafoiu, The Globalization of Musics in Transit: