scholarly journals Variety and vocal art in the context of development mass culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Bobul
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Vocal Art

The aim of the work is to study pop and vocal art in the context of the development of mass culture, which is genetically determined and mediated by a number of its characteristics and traits. The research methodology involves recourse to an interdisciplinary approach, as well as the use of comparative, historical and logical methods of analysis and culturological approach in the study of these issues. The scientific novelty lies in the expansion of information on the development of pop and vocal art in the context of mass culture and the mediation of its main characteristics by the formats of mass art. Conclusions. The study found that the modern system of pop art, combined with the show business, reflects the state, trends and prospects of pop music, which can be improved by understanding the socio-cultural significance of mass culture and popular art, as well as a developed sense of responsibility the creators of mass culture. The development of musical variety should be based on the generalization of previous creative experience and inherited compositional and performing traditions. The current realities of socio-cultural life determine the fact that the substantive and professional components of pop music should be based on both traditional artistic and aesthetic ideas and the search for new views on art, relevant to modern trends, tendencies and spiritual needs of society. The intensification of the musical-performing process leads to the discovery of new horizons of mastering the artistic and creative space, which, in turn, will help update the paradigm of pop art, focusing on modern pop music as an important phenomenon of socio-cultural life.

scholarly journals The Influence Of Popular Culture On The Visual Music Album Cover

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Citra Kemala Putri
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Visual Music ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Aesthetic

Mass culture and popular culture is one of the important phenomena that was born after the postmodern era. In a society that lives in the midst of mass culture and popular culture, will grow consumer communities that produce new cultural symbols and activities. This discourse then influenced various aspects, for example, the emergence of popular music and popular art movements which soon became a commodities that was consumed by many youth people. This study discusses the influence of popular culture on the visuals of music album covers which take several album covers of international musicians from different time periods as samples to compare the similarities or friction caused by various art developments as their response toward happening trends. This study uses qualitative method. This study of various visual images was considering the aesthetic idioms of postmodernism, including Pastiche, Parody, Kitsch, Camp and Schizophrenia, as well as the concepts of several art movements, such as Pop Art and Lowbrow Art. The final result of this study reveal that several music albums using the Pop Art and Lowbrow Art style contained postmodern aesthetic idioms. Each album cover can contain one or several aesthetic idioms simultaneously.

scholarly journals ВОКАЛЬНО-ЕСТРАДНЕ ВИКОНАВСТВО УКРАЇНИ КІНЦЯ ХХ – ПОЧАТКУ ХХІ СТ.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Vocal Music ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Vocal Art ◽  
Definition Of

Наведено огляд досліджень щодо теорії музичної естради як частини масової культури. Розглянуто умови формування та становлення української вокально-естрадної музичної культури в контексті основ масового вокального мистецтва. Виявлено підходи до визначення естрадного мистецтва як соціокультурного явища в історичному континуумі, зазначено стилі і напрями масової музичної культури, а також роль засобів масової комунікації для поширення вокально-естрадного мистецтва. З’ясовано, що естрадно-вокальна музика розвивається в усіх доступних традиційних та новітніх, синтезованих жанрах і претендує на своєрідне значення в формуванні психологічного портрету сучасної людини.Ключові слова: масове мистецтво, естрада, вокал, музична культура. An overview of research on the theory of the musical variety as a part of mass culture as a whole is given. The conditions of formation and formation of Ukrainian vocal and variety music culture in the context of the basics of mass vocal art are considered. Approaches to the definition of variety art as a sociocultural phenomenon in the historical continuum are described, the styles and directions of mass musical culture, as well as the role of mass communication for the distribution of vocal and variety art are described. It is revealed that pop-vocal music develops in all available traditional and modern, synthesized genres and claims a peculiar importance in forming a psychological portrait of a modern man.Key words: mass art, pop music, singing, musical culture.

scholarly journals New age in Serbia, Zoran Simjanovic: New ideas symphony

Muzikologija ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 305-322
Author(s):  
Branka Radovic
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Film Score ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Show Business ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Foucault’S Pendulum ◽  
Book Markets

?New age? was a trend which appeared in the music of the 1980?s, bringing a new dimension to art music in general, especially in its reception. At first its development was stimulated by technological inventions, ?the technological craze?, by new carriers of sound, simultaneously globalizing art and making it widely accessible. This new trend includes quite disparate categories. It does not distance itself from subculture, and in art music it gravitates towards cosmopolitism while being permeated with other musical trends such as pop, rock, jazz and other phenomena of show business and popular art. This trend was originally found in the large number of occult writing which flooded book markets all over the world, to which Umberto Eco gave an important base (Foucault's Pendulum and others). In his essay on the music of the eighties, Peter Niklas Wilson, one of the most significant theoreticians of this movement, researches into all elements of those novelties, not hesitating to call this art eclectic, commercial and the like. Examples of Serbian music get into such style directives. The New Ideas Symphony by film score composer Zoran Simjanovic, was performed in the open air at Kalemegdan fortress in 2006, before an audience of about one thousand people. Since then the recording has often been broadcast on television and radio channels. In its combination of folklore and film models, traces of rock, pop, and jazz can also be found, in a score with all symphonic characteristics. This attempt is a fascinating item for research as well as a pleasure to be listened to.

scholarly journals Re-Thinking of Popular Culture Studies as Interdisciplinary Subject

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Min Bahadur Pun
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Romance Novels ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Music Journalism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Stuart Hall

This paper discusses the emergence of popular culture as an interdisciplinary subject of research. The simplest way to define the term 'popular culture's is a culture widely favored by many people. It refers to beliefs, practices and objects widely shared among people. Some of the examples of popular culture are romance novels, science fiction, photography, pop music, journalism, advertising, television, video, computers, Internet, etc. The study of popular culture entered a new phase in the cultural and intellectual history with the establishment of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) led by Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall. Two things happened to the study of popular culture as an interdisciplinary subject: (1) the study of popular culture has included wide range of issues (2) scholars have intellectual freedom in this field, and they show no interest in establishing clear boundaries around it. Popular culture is always defined in contrast to other conceptual categories such as folk culture, mass culture, dominant culture, and working class culture. Thus, popular culture becomes the 'Other' for them, which largely depends on the context of use. Lastly, the paper discusses the role of popular culture in history, anthropology, sociology and literary theories. In theory, the study of popular culture is always around the debate on postmodernism. It assumes that postmodern culture no longer recognizes the distinction between high culture and popular culture.Key Words: Popular culture; Romance novels; Science fiction; Photography; Pop musicTribhuvan University Journal Vol. XXVI, No. 1, 2009 Page: 27-36

scholarly journals Abu Ghraib and the commemorative violence of war trophy photography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Brooke Jakob ◽  
Paul S. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
War Photography ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Sociology Of Emotion ◽  
Drone Warfare ◽  
Visual Record

The photographs from the Abu Ghraib scandal are horrific, but they are also understandable. Simply put, the Abu Ghraib photos are purposeful compositions that highlight victory over the enemy Other in war. The photos illustrate sexual and racial violence, founded upon postcolonial narratives, but this is only a starting point for their significance. I address how meaning is made for the U.S. military personnel who took photographs of naked Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib, by looking backward to soldiers’ photography from WWI and II, and by considering soldiers’ online sharing of photographs in the present, examining roughly fifty photos total. The relationships between photographic materiality, emotional and gestural communication, and the production of cultural memory, disseminated via networked circulation, all shape how soldiers’ wartime photographs come to be regarded. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this research draws upon war photography; visual culture and communication; sociology of groups and ritual; sociology of emotion; combat histories; memory studies; and online photo sharing practices. In so considering, the Abu Ghraib photos are not unique, and are instead grouped within the greater concept of the “war trophy.” I expand on this concept by defining “war trophy photography” as the entwined practices of war photography and trophy collection, rooted in ritual and group solidification. Staged to depict the violent conquering of the enemy, I argue that war trophy photography recognizes war efforts through the construction of a visual record, one that reproduces relations of dominance and submission. I call this representation “commemorative violence,” a central concept I develop to define the war trophy photograph. In addition to grounding the Abu Ghraib photos historically, I review their visual semiotic, cultural significance, such as with the “Doing a Lynndie” meme, which features civilians gesturing in thumbs-up toward a downtrodden individual, copying the same gesture as often used in the images from Abu Ghraib, and the now defunct site “Now That’s Fucked Up,” which briefly allowed soldiers in 2005 to trade gruesome war trophy pictures for pornography. The conclusion reflects on war trophy photography with the topical consideration of drones, ultimately suggesting that drone warfare photos are expressionless because of the overt absence of people.

scholarly journals Communicative Strategies of an Interviewer Yury Dud: A Linguist’s View of the Media Phenomenon in Mass Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 263-277
Author(s):  
O. S. Issers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Show Business ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Mass

Purpose. The article examines the methods of building dialogue in interviews conducted by the popular video blogger and journalist Yury Dud, who is named the main hero of Russian cultural life in 2020 by Forbes Life. To determine his individual style, the author analyzes strategies of communicative behavior. The following parameters are the most significant for the description of interviewing strategies: thematic repertoire and thematic dominants of the conversation; methods of requesting/extracting information; methods of interpreting and evaluating what the interlocutor said; the choice of language code. The empirical basis of the study contains interviews by Yu. Dud with various interlocutors – journalists, TV presenters, cultural and show business figures, politicians, and other public figures, uploaded on the YouTube video hosting service in the period of 2017–2020. The analysis of more than 40 programs allows observing a wide range of techniques of a journalist, depending on the “addressee factor”.Results. The key topics that are regularly discussed in interviews are identified, including those that violate ethical taboos (about sex, bad behavior, and bad habits, judgments and hot takes on colleagues and senior officials, etc.). The thematic repertoire is considered as a deliberate communicative choice of a journalist, conditioned by the dramaturgy of public dialogue addressed to a mass audience and the tasks of portrayal.The author reveals the distinctive methods of requesting information and eliciting facts, which is inherent to the journalistic style of Yu. Dud: illocutionary forcing reasoning (“why-questions”), clarifying questions, reformulating, role modeling of relations with a guest, where the journalist often pretends being dilettante. Interpretation and evaluation of the interlocutor's statements are based on the clearest identification of their position for the mass addressee by an explication of ideas expressed by the guest implicitly, “delegation of opinion”, and the effects of “insight”.The choice of the language code indicates the “discursive adaptation” of the journalist to his interlocutor and allows the journalist to reveal to the mass audience their personality, including their speech characteristics. The dynamism of the dialogue is due to the setting to dramatize the conversation scenario: this is manifested not only in the choice of somewhat unexpected topics of conversation, but also in the expression of one's attitude to the statements of the interlocutor, explicit/implicit assessments, and the choice of the speech code.Conclusion. It is concluded that Dud’s interviews are a vivid example of the trends of modern Internet journalism, and the communicative strategies he implements allow us to see the prospects for the development of the genre. Given the popularity of the genre in traditional and new media, the author notices that the interview not only reflects the features of social communications of the 21st century but is also a powerful factor of shaping modern mass culture.

scholarly journals Russian Pop Music as a Factor of Russia’s “soft Power” in the Post-soviet space (on the Example of Belarus and Kazakhstan)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
I. I. Kalitko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article is devoted to the study of the potential of mass-cultural factors of “soft power” of modern Russian pop music in the post-Soviet countries. After the collapse of the USSR, Russia’s key goals were to restore and strengthen its political influence in the post-Soviet space, as well as to preserve the socio-cultural space of the “Russian world”. Soft power policies, especially their cultural aspects, are a useful tool for achieving these goals. Today, the sphere of show business and the musical stage are becoming the most accessible and practical tools for promoting the Russian policy of “soft power”. The article examines the prospects of Russian foreign policy influence and the role of the Russian musical variety “soft power”, using the analysis of the popularity of Russian performers in the post-Soviet countries, on the example of Belarus and Kazakhstan.

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