1.   Almost singlehandedly, he helped lead a revival of vocalized swing music that took American pop to a new level of musical sophistication.

2.   Although Torke and Kernis also come from the culture of American pop, they have cast their lots with conventional ensembles.

3.   And what it had is a thoroughly selective backward glance into American pop.

4.   His score took some knocks for its gleeful eclecticism, a rousing melange of operatic lyricism, Broadway sentimentality, post-Minimalist repetition and the rhythmic propulsion of American pop.

5.   Not everyone overseas is philosophical about the power of American pop, however.

6.   Short is a preservationist with exquisite tastes, perhaps the most refined soul man American pop has ever produced.

7.   The artist remains blank and impassive, playing the unknowable Chinese of American fantasy and making his own contribution to American pop.

8.   Tranquillity is one musical quality that has earned scant critical respect in the annals of American pop.

9.   Over the last four decades, he has done American pop, rock, country and even Italian pop.

10.   Singer Liza Minnelli was ready with a tour of the classics of American pop.