The Impacts And Effects Of Pop Music In 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.

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

Throughout late 1940’s through the early 1970’s, the growth of various types of popular music and trends are historically observed. Starting from postwar

Popular music is often one of the best lenses we have through which to view our own cultural orientation. Many of the artistic and experimental shifts in popular music have mirrored changes in our own society. For instance, the emergence of Elvis Presley as a public figure would signal the start of a sexual revolution and the growth in visibility of a rebellious youth culture. Similarly, the folk and psychedelic music of the 1960s was closely entangled with the Civil Rights, anti-war and social protest movements. In this regard, we can view popular music as an artifact through which to better understand the time and place in which it is produced. In light of this, the state of popular music today may suggest troubling things about our society.

Even Asian groups such as H.O.T. became popular in America. As of late 2000’s, pop music started to blend in with R&B as showed in the music of Nelly Furtado, Rihanna, and Pussycat Dolls.

I went to see a Kpop concert on April 1st with one of my best friends and it was an amazing experience. I chose this concert to do my report because of the language barrier, I only know a little bit of Spanish but I’m not fluent in it and I don’t know anything in Korean but for songs in those two languages, I always look up the lyrics to sing along. BTS is different than other Kpop groups because they do involve politics and self-love into their songs because they do want to alert their audience like Spanish artists. I will be analyzing my concert experience and connect back to what I have learned in class.

The cello, a string instrument played mainly in orchestras, was invented in 1660 . Modern pop songs, on the other hand, first made its debut in the 1950s . These two inventions were nearly 300 hundred years apart; at first glance, they may seem far too different. Their genres are nothing alike, and even their artists themselves seem completely different to each other. Thus comparing Yo-Yo Ma, a world-class cellist, and Justin Bieber, a world famous pop singer, makes us imagine that they have no common attributes at all. However, once you look closely, you will find that they are much more similar than they appear to be.

As many around me know, K-Pop has always been a constant factor in my life, and an important influence. The artist of the song I chose, BTS, has especially influenced me the past few years to change perceptions I have of myself as an individual. Unlike other K-Pop artists who mainly sing about falling in love and/or break-ups, BTS stresses more on the feelings and thoughts of an individual, and how it doesn’t matter about how the world views a person. It’s okay express oneself and be rebellious, and it’s also okay to feel upset.

The purpose of this paper is to simply explore the world music aspects of the song “Jai-Ho” a piece that combines music styles from around the world containing Western and non-Western musical aspects. The reason I chose this song as my topic is because it is a popular song in America although it does contain many different cultural influences. Growing up I have been exposed to Rap, R&B, and Pop music, sometimes even a combination of all three. This music is what I prefer the most out of the vast majority of labels given to describe songs’ musical aspects. About seven years ago, I remember hearing the song “Jai-Ho” coming from the speakers of my television as my dad watched the movie “Slum Dog Millionaire” I remember the fast pace rhythm, the

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.

Cantopop is a style of popular music that emerged during the 1970s. It was influenced by Western folk rock music of the 1970s, and is set up in a rock band layout with heavy use of electronic instruments, such as the electric guitar and synthesizer. Perhaps the most famous Cantopop singer of all time, Teresa Tang, emerged during the 1980s. Her music touched the hearts of people all over the world, and caused the Communist regime in China to shift their policy of music from just supporting government propaganda to include expressing individual emotions. Since then, many Cantonese pop singers have emerged and this genre remains famous even today.

As it was known for the culture to build music, nowadays different kinds of music build different cultures. Thus we have Pop culture, Rock culture, Electronic music culture etc.

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.

For this assignment I decided to focus on music primarily Korean girl groups, specifically for me the group I don’t like the most is Black Pink. In my opinion they are all good individuals and characters, however the type of music that they create is very similar to other types of girl groups such as TWICE and 2NE1. The main aspects within the types of music that these girl groups create, stems from a heavy mixture of “aegyo” which is a cutesy concept that over displays femininity as band members attempt to portray affection in child-like voices, features, gestures, and expressions. This form of cutesy concept in my opinion is demeaning towards women, as I don’t think the main body of the group should revolve around this. Another aspect I