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Popular musical recording: brief movement? (7)

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demotic

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'popular' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'musical recording brief movement?' is the wordplay.
'musical recording brief' becomes 'demo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'movement?' becomes 'tic' (I have seen 'Nervous movement' mean 'tic' so perhaps 'movement' could also mean 'tic').
'demo'+'tic'='DEMOTIC'

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(Other definitions for demotic that I've seen before include "Colloquial language" , "vulgar?" , "Of everyday language" , "Vernacular - c.o.d. item (anag)" , "Colloquial; of the people" .)

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