K-Pop: The Raise of Art Performances
Music has become a daily consumption of modern society; Either the high or the bottom class, everybody loves music. Among all music genre, pop music dominates the playlists of music lovers. The Instruments that are widely used in pop music is familiar, so that the melody, rhythm, and the beat producedcan be easily accepted by the public. Coupled with simple yet “eye-catching” lyric, also easily to memorize, give another value to the pop music genre. However, there is one kind of pop music which is now caught world’s attention, that is K-Pop or Korean Pop. Korean Pop is a part of the Korean Wave. Accordimg toSue Jin Lee (2011), she said that, “Korean Wave refers to the significantly increased popularity of South Korean culture around the world”, all the culture, inclluding dramas and films production, language, and literature, and also music industry; and K-Pop focuses on the music industry in Korea. K-Pop is a genre of music specifically comes from South Korea which combines music with dance performance. The synchronization between dance movements and the beat of music become a highlight performance of
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The synchronization, smooth movements, and powerful dance turn out to be the most attractive part of K-Pop. Although this concept had earlier been adapted by Western people, but its application in the K-Pop music is even more interesting. The combination between sing and dance performance becomes the most important part in K-Pop music. K-Pop music has various beats, from slow or ballad songs up to fast tempo. It leads the K-Pop dancers need to design all the dance movement in such a way in order to fit with the music provided. Often, there is the combination between ballet to hiphop dance even freestyle dance. Music K-Pop has indirectly encouraged the musicians to be able to experiment with different types of dance, which eventually becomes the world
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the western world during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Pop is a genre which pulls in parts from other styles and genres such as urban, dance, rock, country, etc, to make it its own unique genre. Pop music is seen to develop this more recently as seen from similar instruments seen in country, and rock, taking its rhythm from hip hop, tempo from dance, and even including passages from rap.
What if there was a modern day remake of To Kill A Mockingbird? There could be many difficult things to decide for this new movie, but something I think is the hardest, is picking the soundtrack. Today, music is not very meaningful and can be all over the place. It can be very difficult to pick music for a movie and most of the time, directors make artist make a whole new song for the movie. Well, I believe the songs “Fool on the Hill” by the Beatles, “Wind Beneath My Feet” by Bette Midler, and “Live Like We’re Dying” by Kris Allen are three songs that are sure to do the job for this movie. Hopefully, they fit right in!
For those whom are interested in music and want to know what kind of music most teenagers around the world are listening to, this article written by EDM Ranks can be absorbing. The article “How Did Electronic Dance Music Get So Popular” informs people and gives an idea of how it all started. A lot of things in life has its story and some people, mostly teenagers can be interested in learning a little of the background of the music they listen to. Music and its popularity change every year. There are more fans of the genre Rap in one year, and for the next year more Rock fans can be found. People like to sing and most of them dream
Korea is a vibrant environment for contemporary music, and produces a wide array of styles. The country has produced internationally prominent composers and singers including Psy in which one of his music became a global phenomenon. Moreover, a new genre called Kpop also emerged during the 1990 's up to present. Today, The melodies of Korean music are quite similar to the mood of early 2000 's rhythm and blues music from America. Reflections of African American music are quite prominent due to Korea 's western influence and the United State 's heavy influence of Negro spirituals deriving in the 1800s during slavery of which you still see in music today. Story telling is very important in every culture and as Korea has had it 's own hardships it is easy to see how musicians took their own hardships applied them to influences from African Americans.
purpose or just coincidentally. The genre of K-pop is just one of the many that deal with this
Pop art was a twentieth-century movement that used commercialism and well-known culture. Pop art got its name from Lawrence Alloway, who was a British artist in 1950's. The name "Pop Art" considered the well-known symbolism of the modern art and pop culture.. Pop craftsmanship movement ended up known in the mid-1950 and proceeded as principle kind of work of art until the point that the late 1960's. The Pop movement had a big influence in the society, with its difference of color, cartoons, commercial and pop culture.
This contemporary pop music has a wide melodic range produced by the electronic modified piano. Its melody form highly ornamented notes played at a fast tempo with pitches very close together, in a conjucted motion. Its pitch creates an undulating melody with repetitions forming unsymmetrical phrases. These phrases create a bit of tension and produce unpleasant sounds due to the instability and irregularity of the pitches causing constant change of pitches as various verses are sung. Although irregularity among pitches occurs, repetition of notes still remain catchy and the
For the general population, popular art, better known as pop art, goes unnoticed. The large printed words on your protein shake or the animated leprechaun on cereal boxes have become modern society’s norm. However, pop art did not come into play until the mid-1900’s and did not gain its popularity until the early 1960’s. In my art class, we are in the process of drawing a product such as perfume boxes and chocolate packages in one point perspective. Popular art is any type of art that is inspired by popular culture, ideas, and comments. Illustrating objects such as perfume boxes is the perfect example of pop art. For my project, I drew two different types of perfume boxes, Red Door by Elizabeth Arden and Diesel.
This tragic Korean pop song is about a man who finds the love of the life and has a desire to propose to her, but right before he can make his move another man comes and proposes to her instead. Taeyang fashion choice is very interesting because it’s not as different as what most people perceive Asian culture. He wears very casual clothes like biker jackets, suits, branded t-shirts, and others. It shows that hip hop culture has not had an impact not only in America but in other countries like Korea. Taeyang choreography is very similar to Justin Timberlake where they use a lot of hand movement to express emotions but it’s different in the sense where the background dancers almost always mirror his movement. The only time he doesn’t mirror their movement is in the final eight counts where he does his own solo and the background dancers have partners. This movement is like how we will have to create our own solos to stand out for our Pop Dance
One of the most recent artistic movements of our time has been the Pop Art movement. This movement was not only a change in style, but a change in the definition of what art really is. The goal of Pop Art was to blur the lines between high culture art and the low level art that surrounds us today. It was a blend of cultures and ideas that changed the direction of art forever. Pop Art contains a wide variety of art with different attitudes and meanings. The actual term “Pop Art” has been attributed to Lawrence Alloway and Alison and Peter Smithson. Themes of art before this movement were often things such as history, mythology, and morality. Pop Art focused on everyday objects and people. One of the beliefs held by the majority of the artists in this movement was that everything is connected. They seeked to show these connections in their art by relating to popular subjects and themes. (The Art Story)
The term Pop-Art was invented by Lawrence Alloway in 1955. Lawrence was a British curator. Pop-Art was a word to describe a form of new "Popular" art. Pop-Art became popular New York and London during the mid-1950s and was the dominant style until up until the late 1960s. Pop-Art used a simple ordinary image accompanied by bold out. They used very vibrant colours such as bright red and blue. The bright colours were to emphasise certain things in the image.
Music is a large part of life, it is important to America’s culture and identity. Music can produce a negative effect on behavior and susceptible audiences, leading to aggressive behavior in many of America's youth. There have been many debates over hip-hop and its influence on the youth community in America. Some people believe that it has a negative impact while others feel that it does not account for any change in youth society. How does music and human behavior correspond? What are the negative and positive effects that hip hop has towards America's youth community?. Hip-Hop is among the top 5 most played genres. The oral creativity the performer uses to generate a certain simile, metaphor, language and rhyme. Hip-hop and poetry share the same methods that expedite into the youth culture to grow companionship throughout the audience. Many devotees have agreed critical thinking about the society is encouraged by hip-hop. Hip-hop is being used as an instructional tool by many instructors to employ it for teaching grammar, mathematics, and the periodic table. The developing hip-hop started in Bronx New York. The evolution of hip-hop continues to expand to our present day. It has become a movement and culture that began 30 to 40 years ago. Kool Herc (DJ) is known as being a founder of hip-hop in 1967 when he made his first gig at his sister's birthday party. Alterations within the culture have taken the originality to a whole new level with technology taking its jump and commercialism overrunning the music industry. (Palvic, 2006)
Music plays a significant rule in our lives. It’s a melody and rhythm we live in. It plays a very essential rule in our day to day to life when it comes to expressing feelings, passing time and for other uses as well. Though we in general may not think about how music has changed so much in the past few decades we must acknowledge the fact todays music is the outcome of the various change in the past. Today’s majority of music we hear is what we define as more as a “westernized” music. Considering other cultures in the world, a huge impact of western music is seen within them. Westernization and modernization are two different words with different meanings and they have two different impacts on a society. Modernization is used to define the improvements and show a progressive transition from one stage to another. Westernization is the concept of being influenced by the customs and techniques of the western society and reflecting them in a non-western culture. This essay will discuss furtherly about the impact of the western society on music cultures of North India and Korea by looking from both the positive and negative point of this impact.
The popular culture of music has changed dramatically over the course of sixty five years. Since this time, new genres of music have been introduced, existing genres have changed, and fixed stereotypes have been associated with certain genres of music. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and is portrayed almost everywhere in first world societies, including on television, radio, at shopping centers, sporting events and in every area of popular culture. Music has become a major part of popular culture, and continues to strive and develop into more and diverse areas of culture.
By the same token, visually stunning music videos also captured fans from across the globe. Korean pop music is known for having sophisticated and visually stimulating music videos. “K-pop musical content includes not only audio aspects but also visuals that flow” (KOCIS: K-pop 44-45). Entertainment companies spend thousands of dollars in producing a music video with intricate concept themes, computer-generated (CG) effects, and colorful background. Watching K-pop music videos is like watching a drama series with plots twists, cliffhangers, and open-ended stories that stimulate audience’s creativity in forming theories about the ending of the video. For example, the music video of IU’s (K-pop solo artist under Loent Entertainment) “You and I” is “a fantasy romance that transcends time and space” (MTVK). The story of the video revolves around the female protagonist building a time machine for unknown reasons, which leaves the narrative open-ended, which induces fans to speculate theories about the ending of the story. Formulating an extraordinary storyline to blend with any song is one of the most ideal and sensible ways to generate a remarkable and noteworthy music video. Some music videos have storylines that are indeed surprising in bringing out certain sentiments and emotions, while some music videos focus on the visuals that are flashy, colorful and give out a “wow” factor. For example, the song “Comeback Home” by 2NE1 (under YG Entertainment) is known for having