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Talk About The Reason And The Rationality For The Mundane Change Of Pop Music

Posted on:2006-05-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J DongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360155454722Subject:Journalism
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The creation and development of the pop music brought the diversification of the art standard and social idea, such as personal values. During the transformation of the ages and culture and our living, the pop music participates deeply among them which have the vanguard's cultural. This kind of advanced character first embodies in music. It builds up the new art standard specially based on the acceptance of the audience and the influence. It promotes and carries out the change that how people to accept music. It absorbs various elements to make music become the synthetic dissemination phenomenon etc. On the other hand, as the cultural information the pop music also affects the people's social idea. It eliminates the authority witch controlled by the elite of knowledge and culture. It queries the existing predominant social idea and traditional social norms. it affects the formation and varieties people's value——especially for youth……But after being communicated by the mass media and percolated by the markets, the pop music ineluctability heads for the vanguard's reverse side--customs. The unique character of the pop music is used to be the commercial factor. Depend on inertia of appreciation the same kind song are produced in great quantities to obtain the business profits and break original character of music. Moreover, the pop music brought the vice-cultural product that lead to fashionable consumption, such as idol cultural and so on. People become consistent when they pursue the character. The mass media promulgates the music information as a kind of amusement and people will not only concentrate on music. It weakens the character of disorganization that contained in music. The long-lost sight makes the disorganization power to be eliminated immediately. Why does pop music turn to be mundane? To consider this problem from the economic, the pop music has the characters of merchandise because it has been commercialized. It is produced to satisfy the demand of the consumer. It is not the consumer's purpose to understand the comprehension of music work .The public's cultural need to music has long-lost of the biggest degree. The advanced character in music work will be broken up by all means. The next in order, looked from sociology, the characteristic that some pop music have and some kind of cultural such as idol cultural that brought by pop music have been used by youth to establish their social bodies and self-identities. This kind of community behavior bodies now the young person's tendency that they look forward to the adult social and also try to establish of their own social status. Because the pop music is looked as a kind of sign and conduct and ratification to adult social, the pop music becomes a kind of community tool that towards to the frame of mundane society and will have the avant –garde character no longer.At last, looked from the cultural, the pop music is a kind of public's own amusement in which mass media participates. The information of the mass media has the maximum popular characteristic. Audience can affect the production of pop music through the feedback and they even have the power to decide witch kind of music to be created directly. The public accepts the pop music as to be the leisure, so their attitudes decide the pop music is a kind of recreational culture and it have to make for common customs. The mundane result of the pop music is reasonable. The commerce is the material foundation of the pop music. The pop music will be just as water without source or the wood without origin if it leaves the market. The business honesty owns the huge power, but this kind of power is not a root that decides everything. Its manipulative force to people is limited. The development of the pop music is the result that market and consumers affect mutually. The audience in modern society has self-conscious initiative in cultural consume. They can choose the information by themselves and create the meaningful cultural content witch is relative to their lives. The public use the means of culture choice which provided by commerce to definite the ego value and demands with personal standard. Therefore, it is commerce to provide some method to help people contact with society and its collectivity actively, though it bring some possible disadvantageous factor at the same time. It is still people'soneself to make the deceived choice. The media culture and pop music have already built up a kind of impartible relationship and they can't leave each other. The pop music is the culture that the medium culture and the medium techniques get involved highly. It and its related information take the mass media as the important communicable carrier. Communication is the direct reason that creation" popular". Therefore, the function of pop music and its by-products witch mainly communicated by mass media are contact, spreading and acceding the social culture and amusement etc. Its function keeps the consistency with the social function of the mass media to a great extent. Therefore, the pop music is the carrier to support the people's social interaction, increasing the community cohesion, loading the social cultural information. Its purpose is to produce the meaning that related to people's daily lives. Because this kind of relativity is dispersive and capricious, the mass media must work hard to find out the general characters between different communities, and follow" the wooden pail principle" to obtain the biggest scope of audience. As the main information of the mass media, pop music must be mundane can it be accepted. So the pop music can only carry out the influence within the scope of contact, spreading and accepting the social culture and amusement etc. At the same time, as a kind of art phenomenon, the influence of pop...
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