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From Resistance To Integration: A Study Of Chinese Rock Music Communication Online

Posted on:2015-01-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330428999374Subject:Journalism and communication
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Rock&Roll, a special music performance style, which gets laid by youth’s accountonce was born, came to stage in the United State1960s. Later, the CCCS, which reallyhave made a great difference in culture study, found that Rock belongs to a typically,resistance through ritual youth subculture. According to their theory, Rock, as well as theother youth culture, turning into a method for the workers using to stand up against thesociety. Also the key word, Resistance, which meaning has changed from the conflict byPhil Cohen to resistance through ritual by Stuart Hall and Dick Hebdige. In the eyes of thepost-subculture experts, resistance becomes a way to show their selves.The Internet has changed the meaning of Rock once again. The Internet got muchmore entertainment, business firm inside and audience. According to the CCCS, once thesubculture got incorporation, the power of resistance will no longer exist and will becomea mass culture. In anther word, any kinds of subculture will never lives on the Internet,which is absolutely impossible when facing the facts. This essay is going try to show howthe rock music communication through the Internet, and by this way, we can know how theresistance, style and incorporation changed themselves to survive in this Internet age. Thiscontains: the change of resistance, the supermarket of style symbol that supplied by theInternet, the customer of the internet. From the three parts above, we can find how the rockmusic change and survive itself.
Keywords/Search Tags:rock music subculture, new media, consume, symbol, resistance
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