In
the modern world, there are many genres or styles of arts, I choose the pop
music as the particular genre to talk about how does it influences or changes
my view of culture. I think there are lots of people like pop music and listen
to it every day. Pop music is a quite normal music genre that popularizes many
countries in the world. ‘The pop culture of movies, television shows, music
CDs, audio cassettes, books, magazines, newspapers are all have been
increasingly flowing about the world ’(Hachten & Scotton, 2002). It seems
like the world shares a popular culture in developing media and arts filed. There
are many great American pop music singers like Michael Jackson, Madonna, and
Christina Aguilera etc. Through the impact of their songs, I know more about
American pop music culture rather than I determine the culture background by
myself.
Personally,
before I listen to pop music, I really don’t know what is it or what kind of
music it is. For example, my pervious view of American pop music is just about
the Rap or Hip-pop. However, through the American pop music spread to my
country, I find that American has lots of types of pop music, such as R&B,
Jazz, Country music etc. All of these kinds of music bring me a new perspective
on American music even in their arts culture. Furthermore, American pop culture
even shapes in many countries and bring a big impact in the development of arts
in other areas. I know pop music by listening to those kinds of music rather
than I just think of the theory or definition. In other words, I have my own
view on the pop music by touching this genre of arts and influenced by the pop
culture background. Nowadays, media progresses rapidly, there are many styles
of arts flow in the world in conducting to the media industries. Personal views
of cultures will be affected or changed by the shapes in arts field reasonably.
At last, I share a pop music song <Diamond> from Rihana. I like it very much.
Reference
Hachten, WA, Scotton, JF 2002, ‘News communication for a new global system’, The world news prism: global media in an era of terrorism 2002, Iowa State Press, Ames, pp. 3-14
Hey Yue Han, I really like how the way you wrote your blog said you know even more American pop music because of like Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera etc as the singer who influence your view of culture in pop music and you know even more new genre of music. Because in other words, you wrote your blog from reflection of your personal life which is give readers a good example and explanation to make it clearer.
ReplyDeleteInteresting view on American Pop culture :) You demonstrated that a clear understanding of the impact of the pop music. Your layout was also clear and well-paragraphed therefore it made me easy to understand how your cultural view was changed with globalisation. I was fully concentrated on your blog post because you gave an example of your personal one and it is very similar experience of mine. Previously I just thought it is just one of the genre of music, however now I think it influences on society as well as art. As reading your blog post, I realized that globalisation enables people to change their cultural perspective by coming across different cultures. Well done!
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