Korean Popular Music‚ the Culture Industry‚ and National Identity John Lie* In the early 2010’s‚ the expansion of South Korean popular culture around the world is led by popular music‚ usually known as Kpop. In this paper I seek to answer two questions. First‚ what are the sources of its success beyond the South Korean national border? Secondly‚ what does it say about contemporary South Korean society and culture? Key Words: K-pop‚ Korean Wave‚ Hallyu‚ South Korean Popular Culture‚ Popular Music
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Review Questions 1. What is popular music? Popular music is any music since the mid-1800s that is popular with the preferences of anyone from a teen to a mid-aged adult. 2. What theme does pop music typically use in the lyrics? Describe one pop song that uses this theme. Why is this theme such a popular one? Pop music typically uses the theme of love and relationships in the lyrics. One pop song that uses this theme is the song “Marry Me” by Jason Derulo. Some of the lyrics are “…And if I
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Riane Lisnock Ms. Hilton ENC 1101 8 November 2012 Music Lyrics When getting into the car‚ a parent typically follows the process of buckling in his or her child and then turning on the radio to the preferred station. Though this might seem like a harmless habit‚ one rarely ever stops to decipher the connotation of the popular songs being played. While an adult might mindlessly sing along to the Top 40‚ a listening child may easily grasp the immoral principles the songs distribute. Some people
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Drugs and Music in Popular Culture Sociology-Popular Culture American Military University Drugs and Music in Popular Culture One of America’s leading social issues is Drugs. Merriam and Webster define drugs as something and often an illicit substance that causes addiction‚ habituation‚ or a marked change in consciousness. Drugs have been around since the discovery of the America’s in 1492(Shmoop Editorial Team‚ 2008). A gift from Native American’s to Christopher Columbus in the form
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Case Study #1 With the essay‚ On Popular Music‚ Theodore Adorno theorized that the average American was simply a mindless machine‚ programed with the popular music they found comfort in. Furthermore‚ Adorno speculated that all popular music was nothing but the same song with minor changes. This repetition puts people at ease and allows the songs themselves to have a degree of control over the listener. The control is then perfected through a number of effects including glamour‚ baby talk‚ rhythm
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Exploring Popular Music What is popular music? Popular music is defined as "any genre of music having wide appeal but usually only for a short time."(Popular music) My definition of popular music is music mostly by one hit wonders or well established artists appealing widely for a short time. Popular music differs from other genres of music because with other genres of music they are constrained to that genre meaning that have to fit that group and really venture outside that box and still be
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1. Popular music is typically music that is in touch with the middle class originating in the mid-1800’s. 2. Pop music lyrics based on love and relationship. 3. Disco was developed in the 1970s. Disco began outside of mainstream America. Mixing vocals with a beat that encouraged dancing‚ disco became the dance music of the decade. The music often had 100 to 130 beats per minute. 4. In the 1960s Briish bands began to copy American bands particularly in the areas of producing recordings and touring
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Impact of Music‚ Music Lyrics‚ and Music Videos on Children and Youth Music plays an important role in the socialization of children and adolescents. Popular music is present almost everywhere‚ and it is easily available through the radio‚ various recordings‚ the Internet‚ and new technologies‚ allowing adolescents to hear it in diverse settings and situations‚ alone or shared with friends. Parents often are unaware of the lyrics to which their children are listening because of the increasing use
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Popular Music Popular music‚ or pop music’‚ means music of the populace’. The term embraces all kinds of folk music which‚ originally made by illiterate people‚ were not written down. The creation of a popular music that aims simply at entertaining large numbers of people is a product of industrialisation‚ in which music became a commodity to be bought and sold. It is in the rapid industrialised nations‚ notably Britain and USA‚ that we first encounter composers who have devoted themselves
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In the article‚ “Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music”‚ Simon Frith tries to show the aesthetic value of poplar music in the sociological field‚ while most of the academic musicologists think popular music‚ submitted to social forces‚ is aesthetically worthless. There are two different sociological approaches to judge the value of music. First is technique and technology‚ as Frith states‚ “people produce and consume the music they are capable of producing and consuming.” (Firth 498) But he
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