Abstract
“Emotion” is a key to exploring the relationship between contemporary popular music and youths. In reality, youths exercise the identity construction centering on self-identity by the unconscious use of ritualization towards popular music (cultures). The article analyzes the conversion in identity construction of youths in the course of popular music appreciation in the new era, and summarizes the identity construction of “private—individual”, “public—individual”, “self—division” and “reflexive”.The study on varieties of identity types strengthens our belief that “emotion-identity” is a down-to-earth approach to research Chinese youth group of popular music appreciators.
Highlights
Popular music is mainly targeting youngsters, no matter at home or abroad
Youths exercise the identity construction centering on self-identity by the unconscious use of ritualization towards popular music
Music is at all times connected with emotions, which is so prominent a feature of China’s popular music that it is safe to say that without the desire to set things right and outburst emotions once suppressed for 10 years by the Cultural Revolution, there would be no psychological basis and mass support for popular music revival in China
Summary
Article history Received: June 01, 2017 Accepted: September 15, 2017 Published: October 31, 2017 Volume: 8 Issue: 5 Advance access: October 2017. ABSTRACT “Emotion” is a key to exploring the relationship between contemporary popular music and youths. Youths exercise the identity construction centering on self-identity by the unconscious use of ritualization towards popular music (cultures). The article analyzes the conversion in identity construction of youths in the course of popular music appreciation in the new era, and summarizes the identity construction of “private—individual”, “public—individual”, “self— division” and “reflexive”. The study on varieties of identity types strengthens our belief that “emotion-identity” is a down-to-earth approach to research Chinese youth group of popular music appreciators
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