Zhongguofeng music 中国风流行曲 has had an impact on the Chinese pop music industry. Although the style of music uses familiar overtones that have been in wide usage within Western pop music, Zhongguofeng aims to emphasize more of a connection to a unified sense of Chinese culture, ethnicity, and identity. Specifically, I will argue that “Chineseness” is constructed through lyrics, which contain cultural references to the imperial era of China, and accompanying music videos, which provide visual imagery that further draws the viewer into an idealized “China”. In addition, the song’s instrumentals blend Western pop stylings with traditional Chinese instruments and vocal techniques. In this thesis I will use semiotics, or the study of signs and their meanings, to illustrate the listener’s perception of “China” in modern pop music. I will first introduce expressions of “Chineseness” in previous genres of Chinese pop music and then examine well-known Zhongguofeng songs. My goal is to question the nature of “Chineseness” itself and explore the process of “semantic snowballing”, in which terms change over time, depending on the individual performer and/or historical circumstances. I will analyze three different songs by artists from different regions, all released between 2006 and 2007 at the height of Zhongguofeng’s popularity : S.H.E.’s “Chinese Language” 中国话, Vincy Chan’s “Daiyu Laughs” 黛玉笑了, and Wang Lee Hom’s “Mistake in the Flower Fields” 花田错.

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka skapandet av popmusik (i en DAW) som är både lättillgänglig och innehåller oväntade inslag. Genom att analysera låtar av Susanne Sundfør och AURORA, samt genom att ta del av intervjuer med artisterna, undersöker jag olika konstnärliga val som kan göras i den musikaliska skapandeprocessen. Genom att använda egna upplevelser som grund för analysen, undersöker jag hur dessa val kan bidra till att skapa musik som är både lättillgänglig och konstnärligt meningsfull. Litteratur som behandlar ämnen som genreöverskridande musik och harmonik användes för att stödja analyserna.  Studien resulterade i fyra låtar som jag skrev och producerade, vilka representerar ett steg mot att förstå vad som krävs för att skapa lättillgänglig popmusik med oväntade inslag. Resultaten av studien inkluderar också en fördjupad förståelse av de konstnärliga valens musikaliska betydelse inom låtskrivande och musikproduktion. Resultatet ger insikt i möjligheterna att skapa popmusik som är både lättillgänglig och konstnärligt meningsfull. / The present study aims to investigate the characteristics of easily accessible pop music that also contains unexpected elements. To this end, songs by Susanne Sundfør and AURORA were analysed, and interviews with the artists were thoroughly examined. The analysis was based on a review of relevant literature, which covered topics such as genre-crossing music and music theory. The study explored the various artistic choices that can be made in the production process and considered their musical significance. The research approach was reflective and focused on the author's subjective experience of music. The analyses aimed to identify the specific musical elements that appealed to the author and consider their role in creating easily accessible pop music with unexpected elements.  The results of the study include four original songs written and produced by the author, which represent a step towards understanding the requirements for creating the desired music. The research also resulted in a deeper understanding of the musical significance of artistic choices in pop music production. The findings provide insight into the possibilities for creating pop music that is both accessible and artistically meaningful.

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90年代後，中國大陸的文化政策逐步鬆綁，流行音樂市場呈現百家爭鳴。其中，台灣流行音樂的市占率超過80%，傳播其所承載的意識型態，伴隨著一代又一代的中國大陸青年成長，對中國大陸社會的影響不曾間斷。在文化政策的宏觀調控下，中共官方對台灣流行音樂持續施展政治性的運用，運用黨國機器的管制與特殊的演出場域收編轉喻台灣流行音樂；而台灣歌手在「政治正確，商演不斷」市場的考量下，也樂於登上黨國控管的演出場域。這也使得中國大陸市場上的台灣流行音樂，鑲嵌於中共官方政策意識型態中。 / Since the 90s, cultural policy of the Chinese mainland has deregulation.The music market is more divers, and Taiwan's pop music market share over 80%. Chinese government tries to Metaphor and Metonymy Taiwanese pop music, Taiwanese singer to move closer Party-state field to market incentives.

This study is part of the AHRC funded project “A History of Television for Women in Britain, 1947-1989”. The research is based upon the data gathered from interviews carried out with thirty geographically and generationally dispersed women about their memories of watching television in Britain between 1947 and 1989. I have used generation and gender as analytical categories, and have paid particular attention to the role of memory work in this type of historical research. This thesis aims to build upon previous work which has investigated the connection between generation and interaction with popular culture, but which has not theorised those relationships (Press, 1991; Moseley, 2002). The shifts and, indeed, continuities in the lives of different generations of British women are considered to gain a sense of the importance of generation in the production of identity. Significant differences arose between generations in terms of reflexivity and around questions of quality, value and taste as generations intersected with feminist and neoliberal cultures at different life stages. What was particularly interesting, however, was that despite the dramatic social change wrought by this post-war period, the narratives of women of different generations were surprisingly similar in terms of their everyday lives. Their memories largely centred around domestic relationships, and the women’s role as mother was often central to these. Following my investigation of the significance of motherhood to women’s production of gendered identity I consider the moments which disrupted that pattern and where women are enabled to conceive of an identity outside their familial role. Talk around pop music programming and desire had generational significance in the production of individual identities, again pointing to the importance of generation as an analytical category.

Orientador: Dorotéa Machado Kerr / Banca: Alberto Tsuyoshi Ikeda / Banca: Leodildo Silveira Campos / Resumo: A música gospel faz parte das novas atitudes e condutas evangélicas geradas na esfera das mudanças culturais e religiosas que marcam a pós-modernidade. No estudo da música cristã contemporânea no Brasil, esta dissertação tem o objetivo de descrever as performances e canções dos cantores gospel e sua interação com os modelos da canção pop das mídias, e de verificar como a cosmovisão religiosa tem estruturado a expansão do neopentecostalismo e do mercado musical evangélico. As teorias do pós-moderno que observam a dinâmica das relações entre religião e cultura fundamentaram a análise do campo evangélico e a área de conhecimento dos estudos culturais auxiliou na compreensão dos processos de apropriação religiosa do repertório pop das mídias. / Abstract: Gospel music is part of the new attitudes and dealings born in the sphere of cultural and religious changes that mark postmodernity. At researching Brazilian contemporary Christian music, we analyze the gospel performers and songs and their interaction with models of mass media pop song, and we also study how religious worldview has been structuring the expansion of New Pentecostalism and its musical business. The theories about postmodernity that comprehend the relations between religion and culture have based our analysis on evangelicalism. The Cultural Studies helped us to understand the religion appropriation processes of media's pop repertoire. / Mestre

The short stories in American Idyll: Stories experiment with the boundaries of traditional fiction by often drawing on nonfiction forms and styles to explore the roles that pop culture, locality, and cultural narratives play not only in individual lives, but also in broader terms by questioning how these elements contribute to American culture as a living, organic entity. Often playful in tone and execution, the stories in this collection aim to inhabit a spectrum: from voice-led narratives to historical fiction to textured ethereal interactions with established cultural events and persons and wholly fictional accounts of American pop culture.

Poptimism is a school of contemporary popular music criticism characterized by its rejection of the notion of the “guilty pleasure” and traditions within rock journalism called “rockism.” Through an examination of poptimist writing, particularly Carl Wilson’s “Céline project” (which resulted in a book, Céline Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste) and material on musician Stephin Merritt’s comments at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference in 2006, trends emerge: efforts at combating elitism and promoting populism are belied by practices associated with high levels of cultural capital. These tendencies are examined from three angles. First, following Johan Fornäs, poptimist attitudes toward authenticity and reflexivity are considered. In their treatment of musical texts, poptimists reject rockist notions of authenticity while failing to account for consumers’ need for genuineness. Their grasp of reflexivity is greater when it comes to reception; Wilson’s project, an exercise in self-scrutiny for elitist bias via an attempt to appreciate the music of Céline Dion, shows the significance of reflexivity for poptimism. Second, poptimists’ approach to identity and difference is considered. Commentary on Merritt, who was accused of racism due to his admitted dislike of certain African-American artists and genres, is typical: oversimplified models of hegemony undermine deep concern about identity politics. Poptimists’ advocacy of omnivorous consumption as an anti-elitist strategy is flawed: using intellectual approaches and spurning the middlebrow are practices associated with high cultural capital. This strategy seems to lead to co-optation rather than real change. Third, poptimism’s relationship to value and emotion is analyzed. Poptimists have doubts about value judgments given traditional aesthetics’ hierarchical baggage, yet value judgments are critics’ raison d’être. Poptimism’s rejection of guilty pleasure and Wilson’s “guilty displeasure” concept link aesthetics to affect. Poptimists approach emotion inconsistently, embracing it when convenient but subjecting it to doubt and intellectualization when it seems to support elitism. Like many poptimist strategies, populist ideas motivate this approach, but it emulates hegemonic traditions. / text

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