How do you understand pop music?

The so-called pop music refers to instrumental music and songs with short structure, popular content, lively form and sincere feelings, which are loved by the broad masses, widely sung or appreciated, and are popular for a while or even passed down to future generations. These music and songs are rooted in the fertile soil of public life. Therefore, it is also called "pop music".

Pop music originated from American jazz. At the beginning of the 20th century, a kind of jazz composed of multi-ethnic cultures appeared in America. This new music, with its unique way of playing (singing), refreshed the audience's eyes and ears, caused a sensation in the United States and soon spread all over Western Europe.

Today, pop music contains a wide range of contents. In terms of instrumental music, it includes colorful light music, jazz, swing dance, disco dance, tango dance, waltz, dance music with different styles and music of various operas.

Instrumental works in pop music have the characteristics of lively rhythm, relaxed and lively or lyrical beauty, diverse playing methods, changeable acoustics, rich colors, simple texture level and small band size, and electro-acoustic instruments are mostly used in modern works. The characteristics of vocal music works are: rich flavor of life, lyricism, humor, wide range, popular techniques, smooth tunes and easy singing; Lyrics are often written in the language of life, which is easy to understand and easily accepted and sung by the audience. Singers are mostly their own pop stars, and their vocal methods are different. They are not bound by the vocal school. When singing, their feelings are more important than singing skills, and they are dynamic, free, natural and friendly, which easily resonates with the audience. The strong accompaniment of the small band is integrated with singing. Because pop music has the above characteristics, it can be associated with the public, and it is easy to accept regardless of the level of education.

Pop music is also pop music. As a popular cultural phenomenon focusing on entertainment, the development of pop songs is closely related to the social development context and has become a part of daily life. Especially after the 1990s, with the opening of national policies, the content forms of pop songs have become more diversified and more deeply rooted in people's hearts. Pop music in the 1990s has changed a lot, which is close to our growing background. However, pop songs are not only art, but also entertainment and spiritual sustenance. They are also realistic records reflecting people's lives, and even indicators of popular thoughts and ideologies.

The songs we are listening to now, such as singers such as Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai and May, all belong to pop music.

The main difference between pop music and other mass media is that pop music has three characteristics:

1. Pop music is a repetitive form: the theme of pop music is repetitive, and it has the ability to penetrate the listener's consciousness.

2. Pop music is largely a non-narrative form: it emphasizes the stimulation of the physical, physiological and sensory abilities of the recipients.

3. Pop music is a form of empiricism: music belongs to the field of art rather than science, and it is an experiential experience.

However, it is obvious that children's music consumption is too adult. Popular children's songs such as "Little Boy" and "Where is Spring" have almost disappeared among children. Instead, adult pop songs, love songs and shallow "alternative children's songs" and "adult children's songs" that are not suitable for children are popular in primary and secondary schools. Pop songs have a great influence on people's cultural life, but its negative influence cannot be underestimated. Pop songs are mostly spiritual pastimes for adults, but children get involved in this "emotional" expression too early, and some spiritual rubbish takes advantage of it. At present, some popular children's songs in primary and secondary schools vent negative weariness and exaggerate negative social impact; Some are erotic and violent, full of low taste. For example, "in my heart, the teacher is the fiercest, making up classes at night until 90;" At home, my mother is the fiercest, staring at her homework and never relaxing; When my parents are away, I am the most fierce, punching and kicking, venting! " "It's hard to go to school, and you have to pay tuition. It is better to join the underworld, eat, drink and have status "and so on.

"Ten Pain" in Contemporary Lyrics

Since the reform and opening up, pop songs have enriched the spiritual life of ordinary people. However, the spread of some unhealthy songs has caused a great negative impact on society, especially misleading the majority of teenagers.

The lyrics of some popular songs are grammatically confusing, illogical, full of sick sentences and "dirty words". "Clean up language garbage and purify the language environment!" The linguist's appeal turned into action. Say the lyrics first.

As we all know, lyrics belong to the category of auditory art and are a basic style based on word of mouth. Once the wings of music are inserted, its popularity and influence are incomparable to novels, poems and other styles. Therefore, the lyrics should be worthy of literature and not inferior to music. Unfortunately, the lyrics of some popular songs are "unreasonable in arts and sciences, unreasonable in arts and sciences, and full of language diseases, which are terrible". Its manifestations can be summarized as "Ten Injuries":

First, the content is absurd and incoherent. There is a song called "God Bless those who have finished eating", which sings: "I really dare not want to ascend to heaven alive/just want to live/spend the rest of my life correctly/stay in my belly ..." Such vulgar and absurd lyrics are endless, and the toxic effect on teenagers is obvious, which not only pollutes the language environment, but also paralyzes people's minds and even instigates crimes.

Second, the whole language is rubbish, and there are many sick sentences. There is an MTV called "Very Injured", in which the female singer sang, sang and danced emotionally, and repeatedly sang "In the days without you, I am very injured, very injured, and injured everywhere ...", repeated several times, which is really worrying. Will it cause "cancer" after being "hurt"?

Third, big talk, cliche. This kind of songs have the legacy of the Cultural Revolution, such as "I am the Jade Emperor and I am the Dragon King" and other "Great Leap Forward Folk Songs", as well as repeated copies of "The Yangtze River and the Yellow River" and "Mount Tai in Kunlun Mountain", with big words, lies and nonsense flying all over the sky. Contemporary lyrics seem to have the spirit of the "Cultural Revolution" coming back. The song "Work hard" of CCTV Spring Festival Evening in 2000 is to preach with common sense and nonsense, such as "You can live a good life if you work hard" and "More innovation and more achievements". In short, it will only scare the people with vernacular.

Fourth, thinking confusedly and talking in your sleep. In the CCTV Spring Festival Evening in 2000, there were songs such as Tonight is Long, Dragon Jubilee Millennium, Fantasy in the West and so on. Just looking at the title of the song makes people fall into a fog, and the creation is shoddy, not to mention "new ideas and new scenery", so the artistry is greatly reduced and can't stand scrutiny.

Fifth, imitate the show, shoddy. A phenomenon in literary creation is that excellent works are different, and inferior works are often strikingly similar: for example, Make a Phone Call is a copy of Visit Home Often, and I wish you happiness is a low-level repetition of I wish you peace.

Six, half soil and half ocean, neither donkey nor horse. Some lyricists and musicians have always been half-full of jealousy about the understanding of classical poetry, but they just don't fool others and make big jokes. For example, there are many fallacies in sentences such as "bitter is not sweet" and "one person secretly hurts the spirit", and there are one mistake or even a few mistakes everywhere.

Seven, empty and tasteless. From "Northwest Wind" to "Rock Tide", straightforward, empty, greasy and overflowing modern love themes, artificial and groaning "jingles" and "Four Seasons Songs" flooded the screen, polluting the national language and doing great harm.

Eight, the words are not satisfactory, and the grammar is chaotic. Lyrics are the art of language, and there are rules to follow in grammar, rhetoric and structure. Looking at the word world, there are many people with wrong lips and wrong prefaces. Like "Mountains and Rivers", "Morning Flowers and Evening Wine" and "True Love Is Not Enough", the grammar is "hard to hurt", and it is full of nonsense between the lines, which makes people unable to understand. No wonder many teachers complain bitterly and worry when they mention the phenomenon of "quoting lyrics" in students' compositions.

Nine, in violation of the rules, contradictory. The artistic image is vague and shallow, the expression style is low, and the lyrics are contradictory. If left unchecked, the negative social effects cannot be underestimated. There is a popular song called Garbage Dump, which sings: "The world we live in is like a garbage dump/people are like bugs in it. What you strive for/eat is conscience ... "So the" bad smell "from the" garbage dump "is not environmental pollution.

Ten, self-pity, groaning. Some songs escape from reality, have a low style, hurt the spring and grieve for the autumn, and groan without illness. Absurd songs such as "Fly" and "Ant" are disgusting just because of the title, and they have also been made into cassettes and MTV publicly, making them on the charts.

Healing the "hard wound" of lyrics requires the joint efforts of the whole society. The media in ci circles should advocate criticism, and ci writers should welcome criticism. Musicians, especially lyricists, should start from me, strive to improve their creative level, practice their basic skills, face the future with a quiet and far-reaching mind, and write a good ode to the new century.

The so-called pop music refers to instrumental music and songs with short structure, popular content, lively form and sincere feelings, which are loved by the broad masses, widely sung or appreciated, and are popular for a while or even passed down to future generations. These music and songs are rooted in the fertile soil of public life. Therefore, it is also called "pop music".

Pop music originated from American jazz. At the beginning of the 20th century, a kind of jazz composed of multi-ethnic cultures appeared in America. This new music, with its unique way of playing (singing), refreshed the audience's eyes and ears, caused a sensation in the United States and soon spread all over Western Europe.

The role of music

Music is the spiritual food of human beings. The ancient book "Jin Yuezhi" said: "Because of the sound of his palace, people are gentle and generous; Hearing its commercial voice makes people upright and upright; Smelling the sound of its horn makes people retreat and be kind; Hearing their whispers makes people happy and beautiful; The sound of its feathers makes people humble and polite. " It shows that the "five tones" in music can grasp people's character and behavior.

Beethoven, a great German musician, thinks that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy ... whoever can fully understand the meaning of music can transcend the endless suffering of ordinary people. It shows that music has the functions of influencing, shaping and saving people. In order to reduce the mental burden, people send out "Hang Yo! Hey! " Voice, especially in collective labor, is more useful to unify the rhythm and focus with the rhythm of singing. This is how labor songs are produced. Another example is repetitive work with long duration. In order to avoid monotony and mental fatigue, people will naturally send out various songs to adjust their spirits. Such as tea-picking, grazing, boating and transplanting. Although the rhythm is not necessarily in tune with the labor movements, with the adjustment of singing, people will feel relaxed and reduce loneliness and boredom.

When we are happy, we will sing and dance while dancing. When we were very depressed, suddenly a beautiful melody floated to our ears. Trouble and unhappiness disappeared immediately, without a trace.

When men and women want to express their love, they will sing from the heart. For example, China's well-known violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers" left a deep impression on people with the first movement of "love". The solo flute plays a bright and beautiful melody on a soft string background, and the oboe plays a beautiful and charming melody. It shows a beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River with beautiful weather, birds and flowers, and beautiful spring. This is a love theme, beautiful and moving, which shows the sincere and pure love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the sincere answer between cello and violin, and describes the scene of grass bridge becoming sworn. After that, the band and violin complement each other, making the love theme more warm and pleasant. This is a passionate, sincere and sincere song of love from the heart.

When a person's relatives and friends are far apart, out of sincere yearning and expectation for reunion, it is the origin of most lyric songs to put feelings into songs. For example, Camel Bell by Wang Liping, a famous songwriter in China, vividly describes the depressed, affectionate and reluctant feelings of parting when sending his comrades on the road, and at the same time expresses the deep feelings and revolutionary friendship of his comrades who "walk all the way in the cold at night".

In people's collective life, there are often assembly activities, such as demonstrations, group exercises and so on. At this time, everyone sang songs with lively rhythm and rich timbre, which were magnificent and sent feelings. This is the origin of military songs, marches and queue songs.

In order to adjust the spirit, people listen to relaxed and happy music when eating, drinking tea and resting, which makes people refreshed and increases their happy mood. This is also one of the reasons for ancient feasts and bars, bars and coffee bars today. Even in the case of losing relatives, close friends or beloved things, in the case of grief, you can't help crying and singing. This is the origin of elegy, funeral song, crown song and elegy.

When people tell Chen's story or vivid plot, they often express it by singing, narrating and narrating, which is the origin of long narrative songs and Quyi music.

When people's feelings can't be expressed by singing, they borrow the timbre, range and playing techniques of various musical instruments, go beyond the limitation of human voice and use solo, ensemble, concerto and other forms, which is the reason for all instrumental music. The above examples show that life needs music to accompany it. Music is an indispensable spiritual adjustment in people's lives, a work of art that people place their thoughts and feelings on, and an integral part of human spiritual civilization. So: "Where there are human footprints, there is music." It can not only entertain people, but also convey the thoughts and feelings between people through the information of music and sound, both at home and abroad. Especially, the more human beings evolve and develop, the more obvious the complexity, exquisiteness and diversity of music, and most of the music transcends the boundaries of nations and races, and communicates with each other with the unique emotional language characteristics of human beings, especially instrumental music. Because of the emotional attributes of "happiness, anger, sadness, joy, worry, thinking and bitterness", all human beings will have the same perception. As for its depth, it depends on the specific works. Even though the musical language of different nationalities has different tones, their emotional and temperament attributes are still the same.

Judging from the cultivation of talents in the current society, music can still promote people's intellectual development. Its main function is to exercise people's rich imagination, the development of thinking ability, the rapid coordination and reaction of five senses and limbs, and enhance the reconstruction of imagination and creative thinking through music. Under the influence of skill transfer and analogy, it can also promote the perception and research of other disciplines besides music. For music appreciation, it also has different degrees of intellectual promotion, which is naturally obtained in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere. Because when listening to music, the brain will not be blank, and there will be various moving images reflected in the mind. Sometimes, with music, people will feel at home, and with the sound of music, there will be all kinds of emotions in their hearts. The emotional language of this art is so subtle that it can't be described by words and language alone. Inspired by a little nod, it can make rich life associations, and inspired by headlines, it has a more expanded and extended reconstruction imagination factor to "justify itself". This imagination from one point to many points, from one line to many lines, is also creative thinking in music appreciation. It is the combination of image thinking and logical thinking, and it is the intersection of multi-channel thinking, three-dimensional thinking and aesthetic thinking. It is also an advanced thinking activity. After listening to one song, ten songs and hundreds of songs, people's imagination is strengthened, their thinking mode is active and their thinking response is sensitive. In this way, doesn't it make people smart? As Einstein, an outstanding contemporary scientist, said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination summarizes everything in the world, promotes progress and is the source of knowledge evolution."

Many famous scholars at home and abroad are mostly music lovers or musicians. Under the influence of music art, their scientific and academic achievements have a certain degree of mutual influence. For example, the discoverer of Uranus is William Herschel of the United States, who often holds concerts in Notre Dame de Paris; For example, the French thinker Rousseau also wrote a notation and a music dictionary. He said, "Many of my achievements in science are inspired by music." More like Einstein or violinist, Balzac and Gorky are both music lovers.

Judging from people's morality, will, character and sentiment, music will also have an impact on the situation of "sneaking into the night with the wind and moistening things silently". Although, we can't completely expand the moral role of music art to a considerable position like Confucianism in ancient China. As the saying goes, "The musician is also the virtue of China." "Listen to songs to know politics", but listening to noble music will really make people's taste noble, and listening to majestic voices will also make people strong-willed and high-spirited. Because it is a reflection of people's mental state, of course, yellow, low-level emotional appeal and vulgar music will also make people's will drop, their taste will be low, and they will even fall into the magic circle of fantasy.

We should know the music of all countries in the world in order to broaden our horizons and increase our knowledge. Western music, which developed gradually after the Renaissance in Europe, has reached a perfect position in terms of richness and rigor in theme, creative method, form and genre. It is also quite scientific and systematic in the construction of technical theory. It should be regarded as the cultural heritage of mankind. In this regard, we must not underestimate. For example, songs such as Back to sorrento, Devil, Trout, Flea Song, Spring Day in the Northland, and Volga Boatman Song; Solo ensemble: Beethoven (tragic piano sonata in minor), (piano sonata in moonlight in minor); Schubert's Waltz, Champang's Polish Dance, Liszt's hungarian rhapsody, Orchestral johann strauss's Blue Danube, Saint-Sang's Animal Carnival, prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, Symphony: Beethoven's Hero, Fate, Pastoral, Haydn'sNo. 1008 in D Major. Opera and afternoon drama: Mozart's The Wedding of Figado, Verdi's Camellia, Bizet's Carmen and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake are all well-known music chapters. How many generations have been inspired! Every music lover has the same experience, that is, every time he listens, he will have different feelings, which is why these excellent works are endowed with great vitality and appeal and become immortal works.

However, as China people, they should have a deeper feeling and a broader understanding of their own national music and folk music. China is an ancient cultural country with a history of 5,000 years. Fifty-six ethnic groups have cultivated this land for a long time and created their own splendid cultures. Therefore, our country must get in touch with some of its own national music art in peacetime and start to educate our next generation so that they can grow up under the influence of national music from an early age. This is patriotic education in a specific sense. Emotionally, I can feel the greatness and profundity of my motherland. In the past century, thanks to the efforts of many musicians, many excellent works have appeared in our national folk music, which are loved by the people of China.

Therefore, when listening to music, we should listen to both Chinese and western music. We can neither think that foreign things are good, nor can we regard all foreign things as unsuitable for China people. Nationalism is one-sided. However, it is reasonable to pay more attention to the national music art.

In the music life of ancient people in China, pop music has always existed in large quantities. In ancient times, it was called "fashion ditty" or "fashion poem", but today it is called "pop music" or "pop music", such as Moon on the 15th, Sun Island, Night in a military port, Mongolian, Mother by Candlelight, Dedication, Five-Star Red Flag, Watching Flowers in the Fog and so on. Modern music in the world is colorful, such as Richard's modern piano music, black singers, Ricky, Jackson, crazy singers, Madonna, Britney Jean Spears and so on. They have all become musicians loved by the broad masses of the people. Pop music is easy to understand, short and pithy, relaxed and happy. It gives people entertainment and recreation, and plays an outstanding role in regulating people's spirit. But there are two kinds of it: one is popular and the other is vulgar. People who lack artistic accomplishment and basic knowledge of music are difficult to distinguish for a while, and the producers of vulgar music also take advantage of it to gain benefits. Only by strengthening music education, family education and social education and improving people's aesthetic taste can we gradually achieve it. Its method is to be persuasive, to guide the situation, to replace vulgarity with healthy ones, but the most fundamental thing is to give people beauty, entertainment and pleasure. People listen to music in pursuit of beautiful enjoyment.

Listen to music actively, it will make you noble and elegant, and make your life beautiful and interesting.