What’s Poppin’? A Historical Muscento

When you watch What’s Poppin’, we aim to provoke you, the viewer, to question what pop means to you. What is it? Is it just what’s popular? Or is it a genre all its own? Or does it actually lie somewhere in between?What’s Poppin’ is a Historical Muscento. A Muscento (“mus-” from music, “cento” from the poetry form cento) is a collection of excerpts from different songs and pieces of music that approaches music from a poetic lens. Our piece is a Historical Muscento because it incorporates historical clips and deliberately spans the music of more than one era.