The Research on Contemporary Chinese Pop Music Creation and Related Issue — since 1990 to 2011
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Liu, Chien-Chih
Abstract
This thesis discusses the pop music creation made by Taiwanese creative singers and bands from 1990 to 2011, via the method of literary studies and cultural studies. The thesis regards “the pop music” as a special type of “stylistic” and regards the creative singers and bands as the “authors” of such stylistic. In the literary studies parts, it discusses the origin, theme, content, stylistic feature of contemporary pop music, and the singer’s creative consciousness. As to the cultural studies part, it research on the interactions between the singers, audience, music festival, live house, independent music and young artists culture, with the intent of thoroughly presenting the cultural influence of pop music on this generation.
This thesis includes six chapters. Chapter 1 illustrates the research motive, range, methodology, and references. Chapter 2 explains the origins of contemporary pop music, observing the interactions between pop music and other stylistics including Chinese classic poetry, modern poetry, western classic music, Chinese traditional opera, Taiwanese traditional opera, and folk music from the aspects of lyric and melody. This chapter also discusses the meaning of such interactions. Chapter 3 discusses the theme and the content of contemporary pop music in order to explain the diverse feature of contemporary pop music in creative singer’s works. Chapter 4 elaborates the creative consciousness and the stylistic features of contemporary pop music through the two themes of “conceptual album” and “personalized writing”, concluding at the points of stylistic feature and the expression of aesthetic intent. Chapter 5 discusses the related cultural issues to the pop music, via stating the spread from the music festivals to live houses, to explain the interactions between the creators, audience, and songs and to present the stylistic feature of pop music, This chapter also discusses several relationships between pop music and contemporary youth culture in the end.Chapter 6 is the conclusion.
The purpose of this thesis is to locate the works of contemporary creative singer’s and to stress their literary characteristics. No matter from the view of the meaning of contemporary pop music itself or the meaning of culture, these pop songs shall all be regarded as part of contempory poetry.
Subjects
pop music
creative singer
band
stylistic
conceptual album
personalized writing
youth culture
Type
thesis
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