The Empirical Research On The College Students' Behaviors Of Music Contacting

As an artistic form which frequently contacted by people, music has not only providedthe esthetic object for the audience, but affected the people in the real life through its owncharm. The perfect music can influence person's sentiment, enrich person's emotion andperfect audience's personality. At the same time, music also includes abundant contents.Music of different types has different characteristics and influence. For example, as theimportant contents of current music stage, popular music prevails with its a series ofcharacteristics which can cater for audience properly. But as the important contents of massculture, pop music has brought people some influence which isn't as simple as its form.As the youth group which is deeply influenced by mass culture, college students oftenhave their own demands and appreciating preference to music. But this kind of appreciatingpreference is often different from the behavior pattern which is approved and esteemed by ourmainstream society. There are many corresponding factors for the reason, such as theunfinished socialization process, the characteristics of their popular subculture and so on.Thus, the study on contacting and appreciating habits of college students is very significant.With the study we can learn more about the influence to the college students which is frommusic under mass culture. (Especially pop music).Then we may show them the morescientific way of enjoying music.So this article attempts to carry out some beneficial explorations in this aspect. In theresearch of this article, the author uses a method of empirical research to carry out theinvestigation to the undergraduate students of Heber University. And the research is mainly inthe way of the questionnaire survey. It involves three aspects: 1,The college student group'soverall manner and contact custom of music;the influence of music favoritism and usecustom made by individual difference. 2, The goal, motive and satisfied degree of collegestudents' contacting music would be explored in the vision of "Use and GratificationApproach" which is from Communication. 3, The condition of college students' unscramblingcurrent music, in particular pop music .With the study, this article has drawn someconclusions. It preliminarily outlines some music appreciation characteristics of collegestudents and proposes some rational consideration.