To What Extent Has Globalisation Influenced One or More Aspects of the Culture in Your Country? Illustrate Your Answer with Examples
-
10-3-24 pm10:28
To what extent has globalisation influenced one or more aspects of the culture in your country? Illustrate your answer with examples
Due to the development of globalisation, “a global culture was seen as being formed through the economic and political domination of the United States which thrust its hegemonic culture into all parts of the world” (Featherstone, 1995, p87). As well as economic change, culture change is heavily influenced by globalisation. Culture can be generally defined as the way of life of a people, it refers to the socially learned behaviours, beliefs, and values that the member of a group or society share. (Ess and Sudweeks, 2001, p88). For example, form Starbucks to MacDonalds, American life style is influencing individuals all around the world in different ways. The evidence of these affects includes the expansion of Hollywood film, fast food and hip-hop music in many countries. The influence of globalisation on music is significant in China, especially for youth music. For instance, English words are used commonly in Chinese pop songs and Chinese rock and roll bands are developing; the music styles of hip-hop and R&B have been adopted into Chinese pop songs and have achieved success. In the first part of this essay, I will define the concept of globalization and then go on to discuss it in relation to the change of music by globalisation in China through three aspects: the development of accessibility to music in China; the growth of music variety; the development of multi-national record corporations and international cooperation between recording companies; and the influence of music piracy in China. Since the 1980s, the structure of Chinese music (mainland China) has changed dramatically. Due to the change and development of policies, different types of music were allowed to the public. Pop music especially from Hongkong and Taiwan became popular in mainland China very rapidly. The popularity of songs for the
10-3-24 pm10:28
To what extent has globalisation influenced one or more aspects of the culture in your country? Illustrate your answer with examples
Due to the development of globalisation, “a global culture was seen as being formed through the economic and political domination of the United States which thrust its hegemonic culture into all parts of the world” (Featherstone, 1995, p87). As well as economic change, culture change is heavily influenced by globalisation. Culture can be generally defined as the way of life of a people, it refers to the socially learned behaviours, beliefs, and values that the member of a group or society share. (Ess and Sudweeks, 2001, p88). For example, form Starbucks to MacDonalds, American life style is influencing individuals all around the world in different ways. The evidence of these affects includes the expansion of Hollywood film, fast food and hip-hop music in many countries. The influence of globalisation on music is significant in China, especially for youth music. For instance, English words are used commonly in Chinese pop songs and Chinese rock and roll bands are developing; the music styles of hip-hop and R&B have been adopted into Chinese pop songs and have achieved success. In the first part of this essay, I will define the concept of globalization and then go on to discuss it in relation to the change of music by globalisation in China through three aspects: the development of accessibility to music in China; the growth of music variety; the development of multi-national record corporations and international cooperation between recording companies; and the influence of music piracy in China. Since the 1980s, the structure of Chinese music (mainland China) has changed dramatically. Due to the change and development of policies, different types of music were allowed to the public. Pop music especially from Hongkong and Taiwan became popular in mainland China very rapidly. The popularity of songs for the
References: Currah, A. (2004), The disruptive impact of Internet piracy on the hollywood studio system, Paper to be presented at the ‘Putting E-Commerce in its Place’ workshop, University of Nottingham Charman, S. (2003), The Changing Role of Journalists in a World Where Everyone Can Publish, published on http://www.freedomofexpression.org.uk/ Condry, I. (2001), Japanese Hip-hop and the Globalisation of Popular Culture. Urban life: readings in the anthropology of the city. Inthaca. Edu. Ess, C., Sudweeks, F. (2001) Culture, technology, communication: Towards an intercultural global, SUNY Press. Featherstone, M. (1995) Undoing culture:globalisation, postmodernism and identity, Theory, culture and society, Volume 3, Volume 39. Sage. Giddra, K. (2002) Lessons of Hip-hop Glabolisation, Defstar, Japan. Kretschmer, M., Klimis, GM. and Wallis, R. (2001). Music in electronic markets: an empirical study. New Media & Society. 3(4):417-441. Sage Mertha, A. (2005), The politics of piracy: intellectual property in contemporary China, Cornell University Press. Rice,R. and Katz,James E. (2004), New Media, Internet News and the News Habit. In Society Online: the Internet in Context, edited by Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones. California: Sage Publications, Inc. Scholte, JA. (2000) Glaobalisation: a critical introduction. Palgrave Macmillan. 8 8