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【摘要】众所周知，流行音乐作为一个相对热门的事物，对社会各个阶段，各个阶层的人都产生了一定的效应，而流行音乐的普遍性、时尚性更引起了青少年的特别关注，不管在学习、生活习惯还是性格的形成方面都起到了很重大的影响。但是，到底这个影响是什么，具体体现在哪些可以研究方面，以及怎么样合理利用流行音乐，使之能够让青少年从中产生积极效果，从中受益，是值得我们深思的问题。在论文论述中，我将会利用一些实例来论述我的观点，对比也将会是一种研究方法。更多的结论将会在论文中呈现出来，对今后的青少年问题有更好的指导作用，为青少年的健康发展提供更好的发展方向。
【关键词】 流行音乐；青少年；情感
In adolescence, the behaviors and emotions are easily affected by surroundings. As a representative of the new things, pop music becomes more and more related with teenagers. The distinctive, strong characters of pop music have a great influence on the young generation. There exists a great need to analysis the phenomenon to make teenagers have a better and clear understanding of pop music and show the benefit of good side.
With reasonable theoretical foundation and research methods, it is feasible and practical for me to do the research of influences of pop music on teenagers. I will analysis the paper from three aspects: firstly, I will focus on the reasons for the popularity of pop music, to illustrate the common feathers between pop music and teenagers. Secondly, I will focus on the details of influences of pop music from its positive and negative effects. To make it clear that there does exist good and bad sides by presenting real examples. Thirdly, effective measures should be taken to make good use of pop music which are available for teenagers to take. All these factors convince me of the feasibility of the research.
1. Reasons for the popularity of pop music among teenagersPop music, as a fashion phenomenon appearing around us, has its own special figures to attract many young teenagers. At the same time, teenagers obviously like this new brand attraction. Dengxiangqun, Luhaili and Liuchang (2004) also suggested that we should pay more attention to the relationship between pop music and teenagers.
1. 1 Features of pop music
The key point that pop music is so popular is the popularity, its common reflection on people. Middleton, Richard (1990) mentioned that the ordinary spread of pop music, no matter in restaurants, café, or clubs or anywhere else, you can find it just right beside you. Pop music has become an entertainment among all ages including teenagers. Secondly, most pop music songs derive from daily life, close to the reality; they express the inner emotions of people as the reflection of their thoughts. This music is easy to understand, to learn, to remember and descend. Thirdly, pop music shows its strong infectivity, emphasizes the importance of communication and the interaction with listeners.
1.2. Characteristics of teenagers
It’s the nature of teenagers to be curious about the fancy world and this curiosity drives them to try every single new appearing that interests their attentions. What’s more, the updating and changeable pop music fits their pursuit for new things.
2. The specific influences of pop music on teenagers
As they are so closely related, it’s undoubted that pop music has specific influences on teenagers. And here, two main parts will be stated as followings:
2.1. For positive effects.
Firstly, pop music is often usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs with beats and melodies. As one of the biggest features of pop music, it’s relatively simple for teenagers to catch the rhythms, then to understand the lyrics, to remember, to learn, to pass on from one to another. Gradually, their music sensibility will be practiced and improved. And that’s the beginning of becoming a great musician.
Secondly, we seek for the health and stable development of pop music, it can help us to find a peaceful corner in music as well as in our life. “The positive messages transmitted from pop music could help to form right choices of teenagers, to stimulate them to make wise decisions” (K, 1995, p629), no matter in the emotion or behavior control. On the influence of positive attitude, teenagers are encouraged to take right actions.
Thirdly, teenagers are in a special period. They can be easily affected by their surrounding environment. As one of the closely related elements, pop music assists to develop their personalities. It leads to the good development of teenagers’ self-control, self-dependence.
2.2 For negative effects.
Firstly, most of the pop music songs tend to express romances, love rather than something more meaningful, more significant. However, as teenagers are during a special period—adolescence, they are relatively sentimental and frail. They used to see things amplificatory. Their emotions, feelings, thoughts are more changeable, which will cause the change of actions or behaviors. most of all, teenagers are misleading to narrow their focuses, the development of teenagers’ horizon will be limited.
Secondly, violent scenes in MVs will have bad influences on teenagers, which brings out the violent tendency or teenagers will imitate these scenes and actions that occurred in MVs. Lyrics with unprintable, vile words, will have bad misleading on teenagers’ words choice and daily speech, they may have the habit of saying vile words without any further consideration. Misunderstandings or mistakes or accidents will happen because of these improper choices of words. Teenagers would be in more dangerous situation. In all, the affects on their speeches as well as behaviors are quite huge.
3. Proper attitude to pop music
We can’t make pop music just walk away, or disappear in teenagers’ world; however, we should take appropriate measures to make it in the right use.
3.1 For parents
They should set a good example, to make clear statements about the proper applications of pop music. When teenagers are at home, it’s their responsibility to make a health environment on music choosing and music habit.
3.2 For teachers
They should lead them to have a right attitude and use of pop music to stimulate their growing up wherever they are. Teachers should try to use proper pop music teaching approach to improve students’ study or personality.
3.3 For students
They should make wise choices on pop music, and take the advantage to help themselves develop. And at the same time, take good suggestions from teachers and parents provided.
Conclusion
As a new appearing in recently couples of years, pop music occurs as the new fever. Teenagers, who share the same feature with it, are close-related and greatly influenced by it. The influences can be illustrated generally in two big aspects. For its positive part, pop music enriches their music sensibilities, guides their emotions, and forms the development of personalities, While restricting teenagers’ creativities and misleading their emotion and behaviors as negative effects.
Many works have been talked about the influences of pop music on teenagers, and mostly, they focus on the music part, but in my paper, I pay my attention on the teenagers` part, from their inner characters, psychological development to analysis the influences. Because of the lack of data materials, more research can be done further,
reference
[1] Stambler, Irwin. (1989). Encyclopedia of pop, rock and soul. NY: St. Martin's Press.
[2] Clarke, Donald. (1995). The Rise and Fall of Popular Music. NY: St Martin's Press.
[3] Middleton, Richard. (1990). Studying Popular Music, Buckingham: Open University Press.
[4] Roe, K. (1995). Adolescents’ use of socially disvalued media. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24, 617-631.
[5] Chris Rojek.(2011).Pop Music, Pop Culture. NY: Blackwell.
[6] 沈汝发，(2003)， 流行音乐与青少年成长，《中国青年研究》，1:27-33。
【关键词】 流行音乐；青少年；情感
In adolescence, the behaviors and emotions are easily affected by surroundings. As a representative of the new things, pop music becomes more and more related with teenagers. The distinctive, strong characters of pop music have a great influence on the young generation. There exists a great need to analysis the phenomenon to make teenagers have a better and clear understanding of pop music and show the benefit of good side.
With reasonable theoretical foundation and research methods, it is feasible and practical for me to do the research of influences of pop music on teenagers. I will analysis the paper from three aspects: firstly, I will focus on the reasons for the popularity of pop music, to illustrate the common feathers between pop music and teenagers. Secondly, I will focus on the details of influences of pop music from its positive and negative effects. To make it clear that there does exist good and bad sides by presenting real examples. Thirdly, effective measures should be taken to make good use of pop music which are available for teenagers to take. All these factors convince me of the feasibility of the research.
1. Reasons for the popularity of pop music among teenagersPop music, as a fashion phenomenon appearing around us, has its own special figures to attract many young teenagers. At the same time, teenagers obviously like this new brand attraction. Dengxiangqun, Luhaili and Liuchang (2004) also suggested that we should pay more attention to the relationship between pop music and teenagers.
1. 1 Features of pop music
The key point that pop music is so popular is the popularity, its common reflection on people. Middleton, Richard (1990) mentioned that the ordinary spread of pop music, no matter in restaurants, café, or clubs or anywhere else, you can find it just right beside you. Pop music has become an entertainment among all ages including teenagers. Secondly, most pop music songs derive from daily life, close to the reality; they express the inner emotions of people as the reflection of their thoughts. This music is easy to understand, to learn, to remember and descend. Thirdly, pop music shows its strong infectivity, emphasizes the importance of communication and the interaction with listeners.
1.2. Characteristics of teenagers
It’s the nature of teenagers to be curious about the fancy world and this curiosity drives them to try every single new appearing that interests their attentions. What’s more, the updating and changeable pop music fits their pursuit for new things.
2. The specific influences of pop music on teenagers
As they are so closely related, it’s undoubted that pop music has specific influences on teenagers. And here, two main parts will be stated as followings:
2.1. For positive effects.
Firstly, pop music is often usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs with beats and melodies. As one of the biggest features of pop music, it’s relatively simple for teenagers to catch the rhythms, then to understand the lyrics, to remember, to learn, to pass on from one to another. Gradually, their music sensibility will be practiced and improved. And that’s the beginning of becoming a great musician.
Secondly, we seek for the health and stable development of pop music, it can help us to find a peaceful corner in music as well as in our life. “The positive messages transmitted from pop music could help to form right choices of teenagers, to stimulate them to make wise decisions” (K, 1995, p629), no matter in the emotion or behavior control. On the influence of positive attitude, teenagers are encouraged to take right actions.
Thirdly, teenagers are in a special period. They can be easily affected by their surrounding environment. As one of the closely related elements, pop music assists to develop their personalities. It leads to the good development of teenagers’ self-control, self-dependence.
2.2 For negative effects.
Firstly, most of the pop music songs tend to express romances, love rather than something more meaningful, more significant. However, as teenagers are during a special period—adolescence, they are relatively sentimental and frail. They used to see things amplificatory. Their emotions, feelings, thoughts are more changeable, which will cause the change of actions or behaviors. most of all, teenagers are misleading to narrow their focuses, the development of teenagers’ horizon will be limited.
Secondly, violent scenes in MVs will have bad influences on teenagers, which brings out the violent tendency or teenagers will imitate these scenes and actions that occurred in MVs. Lyrics with unprintable, vile words, will have bad misleading on teenagers’ words choice and daily speech, they may have the habit of saying vile words without any further consideration. Misunderstandings or mistakes or accidents will happen because of these improper choices of words. Teenagers would be in more dangerous situation. In all, the affects on their speeches as well as behaviors are quite huge.
3. Proper attitude to pop music
We can’t make pop music just walk away, or disappear in teenagers’ world; however, we should take appropriate measures to make it in the right use.
3.1 For parents
They should set a good example, to make clear statements about the proper applications of pop music. When teenagers are at home, it’s their responsibility to make a health environment on music choosing and music habit.
3.2 For teachers
They should lead them to have a right attitude and use of pop music to stimulate their growing up wherever they are. Teachers should try to use proper pop music teaching approach to improve students’ study or personality.
3.3 For students
They should make wise choices on pop music, and take the advantage to help themselves develop. And at the same time, take good suggestions from teachers and parents provided.
Conclusion
As a new appearing in recently couples of years, pop music occurs as the new fever. Teenagers, who share the same feature with it, are close-related and greatly influenced by it. The influences can be illustrated generally in two big aspects. For its positive part, pop music enriches their music sensibilities, guides their emotions, and forms the development of personalities, While restricting teenagers’ creativities and misleading their emotion and behaviors as negative effects.
Many works have been talked about the influences of pop music on teenagers, and mostly, they focus on the music part, but in my paper, I pay my attention on the teenagers` part, from their inner characters, psychological development to analysis the influences. Because of the lack of data materials, more research can be done further,
reference
[1] Stambler, Irwin. (1989). Encyclopedia of pop, rock and soul. NY: St. Martin's Press.
[2] Clarke, Donald. (1995). The Rise and Fall of Popular Music. NY: St Martin's Press.
[3] Middleton, Richard. (1990). Studying Popular Music, Buckingham: Open University Press.
[4] Roe, K. (1995). Adolescents’ use of socially disvalued media. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24, 617-631.
[5] Chris Rojek.(2011).Pop Music, Pop Culture. NY: Blackwell.
[6] 沈汝发，(2003)， 流行音乐与青少年成长，《中国青年研究》，1:27-33。