Country music is a native of American music, reflects the strong American southern folk music style. One of its most notable characteristic is not affected by gender and age limit, is not limited by time and place, the singers can express their happiness and sadness.Now there are some changes about ACM’s style.

By:Mo Zhou 120101108 Class 4

Next we will talk about the representative singers of ACM (American Country Music)

The Carter family is the first popular combination of American country music. The combination has AlvinPleasant Carter, his wife Sara Carter and Maybelle Carter. The songs they recorded in 30,40’s are the source of American country music for us. In 1927, they recorded the single “Single Girl, Married Girl”, the song was not only get Southern farmers’love,but also became popular in the city, becoming the first famous song of them. In 1930’s, they have recorded hundreds of songs. A.P. Carter was obsessed with the Anglo American Folk, so the almost forgotten tunes will reappear in the Carter family album. I heard some of their songs, I found their music is smooth,fresh,bright and harmonious. As a folk pioneer, they opened a new era of folk music, is one of the most pure sound for me.

Nowadays, different from the Carter family’s smooth folk, American country music tends to pop music movement, Taylor Swift‘s songs are very popular among young people all over the world.She is a songwriter and singer. Her early songs are full of rural folk style, I most like the song which was released in 2008 – Beautiful Eyes, fresh and natural style, Taylor has sweet and powerful voice. After her song style tend to pop music, mostly about men and women love songs, is said to be inspired by her own experience of emotion. In the album she tried to break through herself, to use music and musical instruments, in fact, rural flavor is not strong, but the Pop taste relatively heavy, but she is full of rustic breath, with the rural atmosphere of lyrics, full of youthful strong emotions in the style, the songs are green spring taste,they into young fans heart. I feel Taylor is very true, her songs express the voice which is close to life and she is very talented and very hard work, so I think these are the reasons for her success and attract me.

by xiaojiayi 130409132

They were met at a Coldplay concert held in Tokyo .her name is Olivia and his name is Sean .both of them are British but they willing to flight hundred miles just for a concert, for both of them are crazy fans of Coldplay .this is a magical encounter .every tear drops is a waterfall was singing and everybody was so excited including Olivia that excitedly jumped, and she stepped on Sean’s foot.  He screamed with pain and headed up looked the rude girl. She didn’t realize the man who was stepped by her just fell in love with her by the single look. Sean pretended nothing happened and went to talk to her, talk about themselves, families, friends and Coldplay their love.  They fell in love and moved together soon.

But things are always not so smooth, they often quarrel with each other for some simple reason. Now, Olivia is closing herself in the room and playing a rush of blood to the head. She always plays this song when she was angry. Sean is sitting in the sofa in the living room without any idea what to do. Last night they were lying in the bed and Olivia couldn’t stop to praise Guy Berryman’s (base Of Coldplay) handsome. But Sean likes martin more so he said a man’s appearance is not everything, and he corrected her judge standard. Olivia gets a little mad and said:” you just jealous! “Then the fight started…

Now the song goes on, it is singing: I said I′m gonna buy this place and burn it down  I′m gonna put it six feet underground I’m gonna buy this place and see it burn, do back the things it did to you in return . He started a little scared; for he started to image the view Olivia do the thing like the lyric. He begins to reflect himself, and he wants to say sorry to her, for being rude last night. Sean sit down and start to write a letter to her.

Olivia has been stayed in the room for couple of hours and she felt so disappointed, for Sean has no action to show any apology. Things goes to boring and she doesn’t want to stayed in the room any more. Suddenly, she heard something from the door side. There is a piece of paper on the floor . she pick it up and read: “dear ,I am so sorry for last night ,you know me, I always be passive and neglect your need ,you know I love you more than anything in the world ,so ,I don’t know what to say, I want let this song tell you.”

There is singing outside: Look at the stars; look how they shine for you and everything you do Yeah, they were all yellow i came along; I wrote a song for you… Turn into something beautiful you know? You know I love you so…

This is her favorite song yellow by Coldplay, Olivia burst into tears and rush out to embrace him who is singing this song.
You see? How magical the Coldplay’s song is!

listen to this wonderful song! http://play.baidu.com/?__methodName=mboxCtrl.playSong&__argsValue=2685932&fm=altg1&__o=aladin#loaded

When people hear the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, schubert, it brings people not only the beautiful melody, full of interesting idea, and the most sincere emotion, or quiet, elegant, or shock, inspiration, or joy, happiness, or sadness, melancholy.

Kaiwen chen /131002133

Classical music, also called Vienna classical music, is the mainstream music of Europe from 1750 to 1820. Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are the most famous composers of classical music camp. As the Oxford dictionary writes, classical is something in traditional and serious style. Therefore, many people think this kind of music is serious music and not approachable to common people. Nevertheless, according to the Longman dictionary, classical music is music that people consider serious and that has been popular for a long time. Moreover, classical music is an independent genre and pursuing the rational expression of emotion. Based on this, classical music can be seen as the music that survival during the long history and be loved by people.
I think When people hear the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, schubert, it brings people not only the beautiful melody, full of interesting idea, and the most sincere emotion, or quiet, elegant, or shock, inspiration, or joy, happiness, or sadness, melancholy.
However, with the appearance of pop stars, classical music is no more the popular music among the majority of people in the 21st century. As the rapid development of today’s society, most people will choose pop music to express their emotion. It seems that only the students of Art universities are learning classical music and minority of other people will love it. But it is true that classical music is still unfailing. Firstly, in terms of western world, the situation can be different. Most western people value classical music very much when compared with Chinese. Moreover, in fact, the famous song little star which is known by most people, is originally a classical music song called Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman by Mozart. In addition, Chopin is the pop star Jay Zhou’s favorite musician. And some Chopin’s works are cited into Zhou’s songs. Additionally, S.H.E’s ,Won’t to bring up and Jolin’s song respectively use Mozart symphony no. 40and Chopin’s departure as their citations. Although few people know the correlation of these pop songs and classical music, this correlation is still a powerful proof to certify that classical music is enduring. Besides, one of the reasons why the famous cartoon Tom and Jerry win several Oscar awards from 1943 to 1952 is the successful application of classical music as the background music. This success is the recognition of both the cartoon and the classical music in the modern society. In conclusion,
Classical music, not only to the past, to history, it is a part of the future. From the perspective of history, now all genre of music, jazz, punk, pop and rock .in a certain sense, from classical music . Therefore, classical music is all music genres in one of the largest and most comprehensive schools, now is a blend of all the elements of music. Classical music is more than just need to protect the heritage, we can on this basis, continue to write new music hitory.

Let’s celebrate Nirvana!

By:Li Erjiou 121105123 Class4

As its second album，a band tentatively named the new work ‘Sheep’ in early 1990s. Then，someone suggested Butch Vig as a potential producer，whose work this band particularly liked, and told him “We want to sound as heavy as previous records.” As recording sessions for the album were completed, the leader of the band，Cobain grew tired of the title and suggested that the new album be named ‘Nevermind’，which Cobain thought was a metaphor for his attitude on life and was grammatically incorrect　as to be catchy．After that, a legendary record came into being，　and this band was none other than Nirvana．

Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. Despite releasing only three full-length studio albums in their seven-year career, Nirvana has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and important rock bands of the modern era.　

There has been a story widely spread since the beginning. As the story unfolds, Nirvana’s last recorded song which had languished undiscovered among unfinished works by the band captures the Seattle trio in a ‘grungier’ and ‘screamier’ mood than their previous final singles, according to the song’s producer. Producer Adam Kasper, who worked on the recording with the pioneer grunge-rock band, said the song with the working title Know Your Rights is ‘a little bit grungier and a little screamier over the chorus’ than Heart-Shaped Box, from In Utero, the final studio release from the band considered one of the most influential groups of the past decade. The cut was completed several months before singer Kurt Cobain’s April 1994 suicide. It’s likely the only finished, unreleased studio track from the band, Kasper said. ‘Know Your Rights is a pretty cool tune almost a Heart-Shaped Box kind of approach,’ Kasper said Friday. ‘It’s not Smells Like Teen Spirit or anything,’ he added, referring to the Nirvana song that became the anthem for the grunge generation, ‘but it’s a nice one to hear.’ Kasper said that Know Your Rights got that working title because that was the phrase Cobain sang in the chorus. Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl said that the final song Nirvana recorded would be included in an upcoming box set. Though Grohl did not name the song, Kasper said it was likely that he was referring to Know Your Rights. Kasper produced the Foo Fighters’ upcoming third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose.

After nearly 2 decades from the peak to a relative trough these days, suitors of Nirvana now has a chance to recall the good old days. On the 20th anniversary of the song set’s airing, it’s worth considering the performance as a work of music, not mythology. As music, it’s incredible. The band run through a tense and brilliant 14-song set in one scintillating take, something unusual at the time for the popular MTV series, and the result is one of the greatest live albums ever—an unforgettable document of raw tension and artistic genius.

Discover more about 20th anniversary celebration of Nirvana,[http://www.nirvana.com/]

 

When we are only crazy about the western pop music, a K-pop tornado swept across the world rapidly. K-pop, with its unique development model and catchy songs, be a big hit in the western music market.

Xue Han 120307237 Class 4

For the longest time, the people around the world are crazy about such as Michael Jackson, Akon, Madonna Ciccone. But one day, an Asian guy broke into our eyes, with his music video for “Gangnam Style” obtained over 1 billion views on YouTube, and becoming the first video to do so in the website’s history, many people especially the western people unimagined. Why so popular and successful? Maybe it is the biggest puzzle in their heart. Okay, I try to solve the problem, so refer to a lot of data. My answer is:“ The great success of k-pop due to the wise operation pattern. Their characteristics are totally different from the western’s, because of this, they get a new way in the music road.”

There are three biggest agencies in South Korea: S.M. Entertainment, YG Entertainment and JYP Entertainment, often referred to as the “Big Three.” Like S.M. Entertainment, their artists started the Hallyu wave in K-pop and managed to break into Japan. The common point of the three agency is all of them has an integrated Trainee System. Such as S.M. Entertainment have created a process to train singers and dancers in its groups. The journey to stars often starts around age 9 or 10, when tightly supervised trainees begin dance and voice classes at night and live together while attending school. Besides singing and dancing, trainees are also taught foreign languages, especially English, Japanese and Chinese. According to the CEO of Universal Music’s Southeast Asian branch, the Korean idol trainee system is unique in the world.

In addition to this, the selection of the trainees is very special. They are not only limited to their own country, but face to the whole world. Certainly, almost all of them are Ethnic Asians. So, “The concept of global entertainment” come out. The concept of global entertainment aim to provide sensations rather than only music. For the Korean cultural industry, trainee system is an important part of the global entertainment, it was called the cultural technology by the founder of SM Entertainment.

Except the Trainee System, there are many other parts of k-pop’s operation are also worth studying. Korean regard k-pop as an industry, they have a particular marketing. For instance, the promotional activities of a K-pop artist involve the so-called “comeback”, In order to make their new albums known to the public, K-pop artists participate in various promotional activities, such as appearing and performing on national television.

K-pop is more than music or pop culture, it is also a new type of business model. Besides what I mentioned above, there are many other sides like the Fan Base, the use of social media, the Fashion in South Korea and so on. The popularity of k-pop also makes tourism work in a global scale. Fans from all over the world are coming to South Korea for tours and this has contributed positively to the total sales and market value of K-pop.

By: Ke Liu  134102207  Class 4

 

Hip-Hop came from New York 19 Centuries 60’s.From the word Hip-Hop can we know the meaning which is like dance. Hip-Hop just has been through so many years  ,nowadays,Hip-Hop is becoming a sort of attitude, fashion ,music and sport so on.
Hip-Hop was came from street. Black people have no a truly better life than most white people, they are living in the ghetto ,or we can say hood. They have no enough money to pay the ticket for club, so they are dancing on the street, t hey have no money to play basketball in the park, so they are playing on the street ,they are also like to singing on the street ,so many elements was combined then to be the Hip-Hop.

“To me ,Hip-Hop is really important. Especially the music, which we call rap.”Jeanguy Said.
“A rap has beat ,sometimes it also has some DJ scratching. Rap has so many genre, which are gangster, hardcore, old school and west side or east side. Everybody think that rap is full of sex ,cash and violence but they have no seen the essence of rap.”
Jeanguy is a black guy who intends to be a rapper, he focus on it so hard, concentrate his spirits in every single second. “A famous rapper Eminem who only had 2 dollars in the Christmas day before he came to be famous but he ain’t quit ,he was trying so hard, finally he got a shot, he seized that opportunity. Now he is a billionaire.”Jeanguy is just like Eminem ,he left France for China to hold Hiphop shows in Dalian, he now works in Beijing.

Mentioned the influence of Hiphop to our lives, he gives me three points.

 

1. Dressing style

In China,You can see more and more teenagers wearing loose T – shirt and jeans, a pair of cool basketball shoes and a hiphop cap on his head. The hip-hop culture lovers and others formed a sharp contrast.

2. The selection of music

Those who like hip-hop music people often hold a negative attitude towards China-pop and K-pop. They always like the songs full of the strong rhythm, emotions.

3. Attitude to life

Most of them pursue hedonism and gratification, like to live in the present .Express the dissatisfaction to the social problems as they realize there is one.
In the end, Jeanguy told me:“Hip-Hop has changed people’s live and it has a extremely big impact to us. If you all think that Hip-Hop is dressed ridiculous and it is all about negative things, you are all wrong. Dressed like a Hip-Hop or act like a Hip-Hop that does not mean anything ,Hip-Hop is more about what is the way which you are going to take that  can make your life diffirently and more better. No matter what is the issues ,you will confront it,never and ever surrender to it .Anyway, Hip-Hop may not means so much to you but it surely means to much to me.”

I Love the Chinese national music. The Chinese national music famous for its moderation, briefness, neutralization, implication. Being different from the western music, the Chinese national music only has five scales, and emphasized in the line–shaping.  

By: Xiaowen Wang 120307235 Class 4

I love the Chinese national musician Song Zuying, not only for her beauty and her beautiful sounds, but also for her diligence and her hard-working. Although she has made great success in her career, she will never for get her early teacher—JinTielin, who helped her a lot before, and the native people and her motherland.

Song Zuying is the most powerful young musician in China. She has abroad sound territory and beautiful sounds. Her singing flavor is originated from the national culture, and she makes good use of the scientific singing technique; during the performances he is good at using her heart; also she always have the correct understanding of the works. So we can say she has her unique singing flavor. The master piece the loving of our China is the most famous one , which is loved by all the Chinese. Her record the flowing sounds for one hundred years can be regarded as the one which represents the high lever of the Chinese national music. In February, 2007, she was autographed by Grammy. People all over the world get to know her name and her beautiful sounds.

Song Zuying tonguing, a person who has a successful career, a happy family, good character, is admired by all of us .

 

Different from other area, it is possibly that finding a worth-watching concert on mainland china is a little bit difficult. People living in other place may regard watching a concert as usual entertainment same like watching a movie or going to the KTV while many mainland people do not think so. Mainland china market is quite hard to attract talented artist to hold their own concert. Waiting for a long time, music fans would not miss the fancy concert “moonshine jungle” indeed, because it is a really precious chance to watch a charming live show.

YuHeng Zhang, 110909241, class2

Moonshine jungle tour in china was Bruno Mars’s first time came to China. He is a popular singer-songwriter from America and has high popularity in the world including china. There were two stages in Shanghai and Beijing respectively.

Bruno Mars is a wide variety style singer including soul, pop, rock, R&B and others but I can say R&B is his mainly song style. Actually, R&B and rock plays an important role in Chinese pop music market in recent years. Affecting by the popular music style in western countries and the chief song-writer in china, Chinese pop music fans impact by these two music style deeply and this is possibly the essential reason why fans in china can easily accept and attract by Bruno’s song.

If a popular singer want to explore one’s market at oversea, cultural different may be the first factor want to consider. And moonshine jungle, became the next successful concert held by artist from other countries after 2012 maroon 5 shanghai concert and it had been 2 years we waited until Bruno Mars came. It is worth mention that, maroon 5, an American new rock band, their main music style is ‘rock’, which is also the mainstream music style in china. It seems that ‘fashion music style’ is much important than national culture in music area and Bruno Mars has a huge market in China. He wrote a lot of melodic songs such as ‘just the way you were’, ‘when I was your man’, ‘grenade’, ‘runaway baby’ and I guess the song ‘when I was your man’ is the most special one because it only use piano accompaniment, which is a huge challenge of singing skill.

Concert ticket is a decent standard to judge ones popularity. Actually, Concert ticket did not sold well in mainland recent years. Scalpers work with the organizer and ticketing network usually make a discount to attract people to buy their tickets but you can not count on scalpers if you want to watch Bruno Mars show!

Apparently, not each concert ticket can sold rapidly and even scalpers use mark-ups to earn money but all the ticket of Moonshine Jungle sold out in one day indeed. There was a hot blog about the dramatic concert ticket price on Sina Weibo a few days ago, toast saying that ‘guess what? Today I went to Leehom wang’s concert, the original price is 1680rmb, and I bought it 95rmb from the scalper! Feel jealous? Why you guys use 3000rmb to buy the 1680rmb ticket of Jay Chou concert?’. That’s not a joke, it is true. Among the Chinese singers, Jay Chou is the only one whose concert has the best attendance no one can exceed. But may be it does not mean Chinese young people are not willing to pay for music, because Bruno Mars, after Maroon 5, also gave a nice shot in mainland, proving that he is such a charming big star. Original price of each concert are quite similar, but after it control buy scalpers, the price differences became too exaggerate.

The two stages of Moonshine Jungle also held at indoor gym and it means that the amount of ticket was much fewer than outdoor gym. Fans was rush to purchase this concert ticket or they can just buy the pricey ticket. It sounds like a little bit crazy, but music fans would do it for Bruno Mars because his exclusive live charm!

After the concert, audience post a great deal of picture and many fans said that it was the best concert they seen in this year. At the opening of the concert, the curtain prints the scenery of real jungle made everyone feel like they are in it. The other fancy part is most of the audience heard each of the song on the set list before and these songs all written by Bruno Mars himself. However, compared with the other concert, it seems like Moonshine Jungle is quite short and it only lasting 80mins. May be this was the only part people feel no that satisfied but I guess time can not represent the quality of a show because if you are watching some weird and boring concert, three-hour is a plenty time can turn you into sleep or even the last subway back home is more worthy to catch!

   By  Class 4    130108127   Si  Yi  Cheng

                German musician Beethoven, is one of the most famous European music history musician, he was born in Bonn in Germany in 1770, in Beethoven Pepo’s time, his father is very high expectations for him, hope that their sons to become Mozart’s musical prodigy. In Beethoven at the age of 4, my father would take a pile of notes in front of Beethoven let him play, sometimes Beethoven put the hands are practicing swollen still can’t rest.

One day, the church bells are knocked to 12, Beethoven was in practice, he must check his music to sleep until father came back, mother looked at eyes narrowed into a crack of Beethoven, and have mercy said to him: “children, all 12 o ‘clock, go to sleep.”

              　He answered ‘No, if dad found that I being not play the piano, he will beat me.’

Mother also does not have method, to the drunkards husband had to holding the Beethoven piano in tears, soon, Beethoven fell asleep in her mother’s arms, mom kept him on the bed.

When the bell sounded again, Beethoven’s alcoholic father came back, “the rabbit, how does not practice his violin?”

“You don’t look at the time, but also let the children practice, do you want to put to death he was willing to give up?”

“Yes, you’re right,” says the Beethoven’s father as, side to Beethoven’s bedside, Beethoven to be brought up, mother how block also can not stop.

Beethoven’s sleepy on the piano, while eyes closed, in spite of this, Beethoven’s performance is very smooth and natural.
“Line, there is some Mozart.” The father in the side happily say.

When a few years later, Beethoven from 4 to 8 years old, after four years of hard practice, he piano level had the very big enhancement, his alcoholic father also satisfied, then let him in music school held a solo concert, the show was very successful, father son enjoyed the joy of success.

There is a rare singer who is good at singing, creating and performing, she has full passion, she said “Being sincere to yourself is the most important “.she has talent for music, when she was just a little girl, her father put on the scissors, the brushes, the books ,the microphone and so on in front of her, little girl hold the microphone immediately, maybe that’s why she became the popular rock star all around the world.do you know who is she?

JIA SHI    130907245    CLASS TWO

 

Yes, You might have guessed who is she, she is Avril. Avril lavigne was born in a small town in Canada in 1984.
When she was 15 years old, she experienced a rebellious youth period, she started to make up for herself. “I finally understand, dress up like writing songs, don’t care about others’ evaluation，Being sincere to yourself is the most important. ”She knows it, she understands it and she does things like that. When she is a child, a boy of her classmates quipped that girl won’t catch fish. Later, she was found with a group of girls caught 78 fish in the lake to prove that the girls are very capable of independently. See, what a different girl she is!
doesn’t like to be a “Follower” ,she just wears the kind of clothes and decorations what she likes, she is fond of wearing white T-shirt with cropped trousers and sneakers on the concert instead of the heavy performance costumes, she yearned for freedom, she is not bound, she has a personality of her own.

Avril is a girl free with her thoughts, she is honest , she is not hypocrise and she loves music. She says what she want to say, she does what she wants to do, maybe the things is wrong, but she always chooses to follow her heart. Once when Lindsay Morgan Lohan came to Avril in a hotel ,Avril said” Get the hell out of here before me! hypocritical people! Loser! I hate the man who is hypocritical! Stay far away from me and my friends!” If she doesn’t like you , she will let you know, because she thinks” Being sincere to yourself is the most important”.
When she was 16 years old , Avril Skipped her class to go to New York, then go to Los Angeles, had a nice trip, maybe that is her courage helped her become a legend. Adolescence, rebellious period, just like Avril, establishes her dream and tries her best to achieve her dream .Maybe in the most people’s eyes, she is very absurd and crazy, even a little bit regardless of the consequences ,but I have to say that Avril is a really legend. When she was 17 years old, she likes wearing a tie, don’t like to go as a follower but a conqueror, she has the spirit of the personality that many young people are short of.

Now Avirl has already got married, but she still loves music and she has already grown up although she sang the song” Here’s To Never Growing Up”, but her stories have deep influence to me .
That’s all Avril’s stories in her childhood and teenager period that I want to share ,maybe something you have already known, something you don’t know, but whatever I want to say, this is the girl who I love!