Abstract The development of popular music in my country is restricted by many factors such as corresponding politics, economy, and culture, and has its own unique development trajectory. This article takes the development of my country's pop music in the past 30 years as a clue, reviews the development overview of my country's pop music in the past 30 years, discovers its existing problems, and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions to solve it.
Keywords: The development history of popular music
Popular Music (Pop Music for short) originated from American jazz music, based on its widely sung, popular for a while and even spread to later generations. Due to its "popularity" communication characteristics, pop music can also be called "popular music". Pop music is rooted in the rich soil of public life. After 30 years of development in our country from the late 1970s, the widespread dissemination of pop music has had a profound impact on our lives.
1. The development history of Chinese pop music
The development of pop music in the past 30 years of reform and opening up is an important aspect of the development of my country’s music culture, as well as the commercialization and internationalization of music. The process of modernizing communication means and diversifying expression methods has played a huge positive role in prospering social music life. A closer look at the 30-year development process can be divided into the following stages.
1. Recovery and pioneering period
From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, especially triggered by the national policy of "reform and opening up" proposed at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee in 1978, Our country's political and economic situation has triggered tremendous changes. In the field of music culture, revolutionary songs dominated by political ideology and a high degree of unity gradually transformed into lyrical songs and entertaining pop songs.
In mainland China, in terms of original music, such as Shi Guangnan's "Toast Song", "On the Field of Hope", "Play the Tambourine and Sing"; Wang Min's "Biangan Spring Water is Clear and Pure" ", "My sister sheds tears looking for her brother"; Wang Liping's "Island on the Sun", "Ocean, My Hometown", "A Dream of Red Mansions"; Gu Jianfen's "Morning on Campus" and "Young Friends Come to Meet". There are also mainstream music of the era such as "Peony Song", "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloom", "Fifteenth Moon", "Our Life is Full of Sunshine". In addition, music from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe and the United States has also become an important part of domestic pop music, such as Teresa Teng, Momoe Yamaguchi, Liu Wenzheng, Alan Tam and the Beatles. The domestic pop music culture market is unprecedentedly active, and pop music is on the fast track of development.
2. Rapid development period
From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, the pop music culture market gradually developed and prospered. Based on the rapid popularization of recorders and records (tape), individual listening and appreciation of pop music has gradually become the main consumption method. With the emerging audio and video industry as the core, the mainland pop music market continues to expand. At the same time, television media has risen rapidly and has become another communication medium with extremely wide coverage. TV singer competitions have professional classifications of bel canto, ethnic, and popular. The detailed classification of singing methods has, to a certain extent, recognized and enhanced the cultural status of pop music. In terms of demand in the emerging art market, party songs, film and television drama theme songs, and record songs have gradually become important factors in promoting the creation and prosperity of popular music.
Domestic original works have shown an unprecedented prosperity, and popular music creation and singing talents have gathered. The most influential ones are "Northwest Wind", and representative works include "Nothing", "Xintianyou", "Loess High Slope" ”, “My Passionate Hometown”, “Wish”, etc. Lyrical pop songs such as "How I Want to Sing", "I Don't Want to Say", "Crescent Moon", "The Sound of the Waves Are Still", etc.; rock music such as "Nothing", "Friends", "Naked", etc.
3. Diversified Prosperity Period
In the 21st century, the world’s economic and cultural development has become increasingly networked, globalized, and integrated. Internet applications have become popular, digital applications have accelerated, and music and art communication channels have become more diverse. Quick and easy. In the field of domestic popular music, the barrier-free input of Hong Kong and Taiwan music, and European and American pop culture has caused my country's social music life to face new and huge changes, showing new characteristics of diversified development.
The first is the diversification of music needs. The rapid development of mass media has greatly expanded the social demand for music culture. The diversified audience has made popular music styles more diversified and there are more varieties of popular music, such as "reggae", "rap", "hip-hop" and so on. The second is the diversification of music creation. The popularization of digital computer music production technology and the home-based computer recording system have greatly reduced the cost of pop music synthesis and recording and the threshold for creation. The creators or producers of pop music are becoming more and more endless, with good and bad. The third is the diversification of communication media. In addition to traditional communication methods such as radio, television, film and television media, and the release of CD records, pop music has more communication carriers, such as MV production and distribution, online songs, ring tones, mobile music, etc. In particular, the Internet has become a powerful engine for promoting music communication. , Internet original songs have attracted more and more attention from society and have become a highlight of the pop music scene in recent years.
At this point, the technical means of pop song creation are no longer restricted by traditional methods or models, and are exploring a new path of free innovation and development.
This will inevitably stimulate and promote the development and prosperity of music creation, and inject new vitality into the development of popular music. It satisfies the appreciation needs of the broad audience to a certain extent, makes music closer to people's lives, and greatly popularizes popular music. music art. 2. Problems faced by the development of domestic popular music
Chinese pop music creation is an important aspect of the development of Chinese music culture. Although the development and rise of domestic pop music in the past 30 years is vigorous, it also has serious inherent shortcomings, highlighting various problems.
First of all, the disordered state of industry development still exists. Due to historical and practical reasons, in my country's current environment, the domestic pop music market still remains disorderly. Some necessary industry regulations, operating mechanisms and market order have not yet been perfected. There is a lack of effective rule of law and piracy is common. Secondly, in-depth theoretical research is still weak. Domestic pop music creation is deeply influenced by Hong Kong and Taiwan, coupled with the penetration of strong European and American culture. The phenomenon of stealing and copying melody or rhythm is common, the original spirit is missing, and theoretical research is still weak. Furthermore, there is still a lack of talent for pop music creation. Driven by the generalization of popular music creation driven by online media, most online singers and online songwriters do not have solid professional singing skills and basic skills in songwriting. In addition, the production equipment is crude, and they have difficulties in lyrics, tunes, music production, and recording synthesis. There is room for further improvement. The content is generalized and flat, and there is a lack of further exploration of the artistic connotation of music. Some works even have obvious vulgar tendencies, with vulgar lyrics, weird tunes, and a lot of swear words.
3. Countermeasures and suggestions for the development of domestic pop music
The background of the times determines the development direction of pop music, and pop music also truly reflects the background of the times. Therefore, the two influence and develop each other. Productivity is the decisive factor in music; facing reality and facing the development of my country's actual national conditions, proper commercial operation is the best way to promote the development of popular music. Marketization and internationalization are the best ways for Chinese music culture to go out into the world, and are also in line with the requirements of socialist cultural development. China's pop music creation in the past 10 years has both a strong national consciousness and an inclusive mind for the world, which provides the possibility for it to enter world culture. Although there are still many unsatisfactory things on this road, there is no doubt about its potential. Chinese pop music comes from the public and will be owned by the public. I believe that after further in-depth exploration and integration, Chinese pop music will The future is bound to be brilliant.
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