Popular Music or K-Pop in South Korea

In today’s society, music controls the way we live our lives. The influence that music has on society has broadened throughout the years and with social media being one of the world’s top priority, the fan base and spectrum for music in general has expanded significantly. Music is used to express feelings, moods, circumstances, experiences, knowledge, and so much more. With this being the case, the lyrics of any song can be interpreted differently by each and every listener. Many song lyrics give positive messages, promoting well-being, whiles others give negative messages, promoting violence, criminal behaviors, sexual contents, and disrespect towards others. With this being said, music reflects what the public demands, and in many cases the negative messages are often times what sells more than those music giving positive messages.

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.

The K-pop fandom community is anImagined nation. It is formed through the consciousness of the members of the K-pop fandom community. As an imagined community, the K-pop fandom is limited. Its transcendence from physical geographical sphere to the virtual sphere creates a limited access for the K-pop fans. The social discourse existing within the K-pop fandom community acts as homogenizing agents that identify and creates the cultural identity of the K-pop fans. This cultural identity is authentic to the members of the K-pop fandom community for it is created from the shared experiences resulting to common significations exclusive to the K-pop fans. The authenticity of the identity categorizes the insider and limits the outsiders. Therefore

Everyone has seen a music video at least once in their life, whether young or old, or on MTV or YouTube. Music videos require a combination of a beautiful song and visually pleasing graphics that uses pathos and ethos in order to capture the attention of the audience. The Korean K-pop group BTS utilizes pathos and ethos in their music video for their song “I Need U”. Bangtan Sonyeondan, Bulletproof Boys, or simply BTS, is a seven-member K-pop group formed under Big Hit Entertainment in 2013. “I Need U” is the title track of the first album in the three-part album series titled The Most Beautiful Moment in Life. The song was created by BTS members in order to convey the message that youth is the most stressful period of one’s life, although by overcoming difficult obstacles it is also the best time of life. BTS’ music video for the song “I Need U” makes use of ethos and pathos in such a way that provides viewers with a new perspective on youth.

New social divides originate from the look that people want to articulate, an image that is projected from the vogue, images which may coincide with a certain way of life. It was revealed in a recent academic journal that listening to certain genre of music can influence the way we consume (Na 2013). Therefore the performers of these genres and other forms of media have some bearing on the way we look and act. Making us feel like we could be that one step closer to the standard of living we desire and giving us a sense of belonging.

Over the past 50 years, the advancement of science and technology has had a profound and an unprecedented impact on the global media landscape. Technology has changed the way the artists record music as well as how the audience listens to and perceives their compositions. In other words, media contains within them an explanation to why the contemporaries think about music the way they do. From the 1960s through 2000s, many important events have taken place in the world of music that transformed it and created its modern image.

Pop music is one of the most effective music genre around the world. Listening to pop music affects us in terms of our love life and passion. What is pop music? The definition of pop music is deliberately flexible. It accommodates the fact that the specific music identified as pop is continually changing.

Discuss one of the ideas of the following writers in relation to popular music culture: Stanley Cohen. You may use a case study approach in your answer.

For my analysis I specifically chose to investigate the top three most popular music videos from both Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea. I determined there popularity based on the number of views the official videos had on their respective Youtube Vevo Channels. Popularity of the videos was an important factor as this content would seemingly have the most far reaching impact, as a result of the scale of viewers. Further, I avoided selecting videos based on their direct relevance to my research question as doing so could impact the validity of my findings negatively, as videos choosen based on relevance could be influenced by preconceptual biases. Overall, music videos were selected as the medium of analyzation as videos are a visual representation of the topics and themes of a given song. In addition, music videos can provide a broadened and enriched creative concept in tangent with the original purely sonic form of the media.

On the first day, the views of Pop Parade sat at 120 thousands, which was three times more than that of Music Choice. Over the first 11 days, Pop Parade’s popularity steadily decreased to 40 thousands views on the 9th day and then increased dramatically to 150 thousands views on the 11th day. The number of views of Music choice fluctuated between 20 thousands and 60 thousands views then stopped at slightly above 20

Music has come a long way and everybody dances, listens, and sings to what we call music. In the past few years mainstream music has been overtaken by hip-hop and rap music. Although they have been criticized a lot for its sexual lyrics and violent themes. People feel that that hip-hop music has a focus on sexually-based themes and others feel that rap promotes violence against police officers and innocent citizens. Artists are still making music that promotes neither of these ideas, but more neutral and family and friendly themes. The last few years’ music has shown great styles, themes, and personal taste.

Fans create their own symbols and significations through the fan works posted within the K-pop fandom community. These fan works often communicates the author’s intention or feeling in a way that many people

This paper is meant to cover is meant to cover the Sociology of Music. Ever since the 5th grade, music has been one of the channels I've used to express myself and relate myself to. I regularly listen to music in most all occasions such as: in the car, walking to class, in the shower, in the morning, and most of my leisure. Personally, I don’t have a kind of genre that I prefer and I listen to most genres from Country to Jazz and Underground Rap. I'm always open to listen to other peoples music to help create a wider variety in the music I listen to. Taking into consideration of the impact that music holds in my life, I feel propelled to start a sociological study on people's interest in music from a sociological aspect.

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.

Manners represent an individual by the way they dress, behave, communicate, and their etiquette, while customs refer to the traditional way that a culture is practice individually, or by a group of people. Workers are expected to bow to their seniors when they greet them, and to use only formal language to their seniors, as it is rude to speak informally to someone of higher rank. In Korean businesses, meetings are often held in evenings at a restaurant or bar. Drinking is part of the Korean culture, as Koreans believe that drinking helps to bond colleagues in the company, and an offered drink must never be refused as it is considered to be rude. Along with drinking, Karaoke is a popular activity after meetings. People who attend the meeting are usually expected to sing a solo song.