The Development Of Popular Music And Values Vicissitude Since The Reform And Opening Up For 30 Years

Popular music is the important component of music. And it also is the music form which can reflect the characteristics of different age. Chinese popular music can be traced back to the 1930s. Chinese popular music is along with the changes of the times. Value is the sum of standpoints, viewpoints and attitudes for value in different times. It infiltrates into various fields of reality. Popular music is one of these fields. With easy understanding lyric and easy reading melody, popular music can spread in whole society. At the same time, values in popular music affect the whole society. Popular music becomes a direct measure which reflects the features of age. Since reform and opening up, there are a series of changes in China, which contain politics, economic, culture, science and technology, education and so on. Chinese society has changed greatly. Popular music began to develop quickly. Chinese popular music has gradually walked out of the initially much criticized, marginal state and achieved its social identity as the most influential culture form. Its formation, development, and the unique features represented in each historical period are inevitably. During this course, values also changes. The overall rising of Chinese popular music also changes. The eras endow the new value to the popular music. The new values affect the society as popular music spreading. Since the reform and opening up for 30 years, popular music becomes the indispensable part of public life. It has a manifold meaning and value for exploring the methods of value education and promotes popular music healthy development to summarize the Chinese popular music development, and find values from different periods of popular music.This article studies the development of popular music in the reform and opening up for 30 years, and researches the interactive relation between popular music and values. Thought the analysis about history of popular music in the reform and opening up, we can find popular music of different ages can affect the values of different ages. And the values how affect the creating of the popular music. The environments of different times are significant part between popular music and values. This article summarizes a lot of enlightenments and methods for value education utilizing the popular music from value education, popular music, and social environment.