Chinese Contemporary Pop Songs Of The Male Image Research

In this paper, by using the theory of gender and cultural identity and feministresearch methods, i analysed male image in Chinese contemporary pop music (ie,2000-2011), through three influential of today’s pop music charts-"Global ChineseMusic Channel V","Global Chinese Music," and "Music Billboard". From relatedresearches of the pop music, mostly, based on the critical patriarchal center, theresearchers started from the feminist point of view, in order to reflect the image ofwomen in pop music, paying less attention to the male image, and in the patriarchalculture, the self-inflicted harm to men was even more ignored. Taking into account thewidespread influence of pop music in the public, it has an important academic value anda strong practical relevance to study the male image in the pop music, which can notonly change our fixed imagination of Chinese male image but to deepen the publicappreciation of cultural understanding of the female image, creating a more harmoniousgender relationship.The first part of this paper mainly introduces the current study of the male image inpop songs, as well as reveals and significance of researching the male images in popmusic. The second part showes statistics of the three music charts song text, and picksout the final89songs involved in the male image as the object of this paper. Furtherly,by analysing and researching those lyrics text involved in male images in popularsong to get the idea that with the change of social system,it is much richer than wethought the traditional male image,which are no longer a single hero or successfulpeople images, but showing out a wide range of momentum. the male image in the popmusic shows us three new features:1.Male image With the character of the feminization;2. Frustrated machismo image;3. New good man image. The third part is to analyze thereasons of the male image in pop music from many aspects of society, economics,culture etc. the changes in the economic status of women and men in society, makesmen and women different dominant position in the pursuit of love from the pop music.The communication and collision of Chinese and Western culture and thought,exacerbated the changing roles of the male character in the popular songs. The articlealso pointed out that two other important influencing factors of "gender theory and feminist thinking&development","identity development", pointing out that the changeprocess of male image is, in addition to external factors, a inherent to promote theprocess of male self-identity. Part IV briefly summarizes the full text.