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Interweaving Melody and Beat -Specialties of Japanese and Korean Pop Music Styles and Development from Yonezu Kenshi and Han JiSung
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Abstract
Currently, in Asia and around the world, Japanese and Korean popular music cultures have a large number of fans and imitators. These two pop music cultures have their own characteristics, both of which have extremely distinctive style characteristics, complete and standardized industrial systems and a large number of creative, young and energetic practitioners. Therefore, the author tries to explore the style and development characteristics of Japanese and Korean pop music. In order to be more precise and efficient, the author selected two representative musicians, Yonezu Kenshi (Japan) and Han JiSung (South Korea) for the study. The author's research method is as follows. The author makes full use of previous theoretical research on Japanese and Korean pop music, combined with professional knowledge of music, and collects statements and social interviews of relevant authors in order to have a comprehensive understanding of their representative music works. Then the author makes a coded analysis and statistical drawing of the melody, rhythm and emotional expression of his representative works. After the study, the author found that the development of Japanese and Korean popular music cultures are similar but also significantly different. Mainly, the former is relatively conservative and traditional, focusing on melody; the latter is more open and tolerant, focusing on rhythm; at the same time, there are quite a lot of similarities and differences between the two in terms of emotional expression and lyrical characteristics. Finally, based on the summarized “developmental characteristics”, the author draws some inspirations for the development of Chinese pop music.
Keywords
Pop Music, Japan and Korea, Pop Culture
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Chen,Z. (2024). Interweaving Melody and Beat -Specialties of Japanese and Korean Pop Music Styles and Development from Yonezu Kenshi and Han JiSung . Communications in Humanities Research,41,21-32.
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