An Analysis of China’s Popular Music Development Tendency to Its Elegance and Popularity in Modern Socio-cultural Perspective —A Case Study on Social Group Psychology and Individual Psychology

Abstract

With the music culture increasingly penetrating into people’s life and various of musical elements and patterns emerging in endlessly, there is a great variety of music forms in cultural products markets. Facing with so many modern music pieces, people in music circle have devoted themselves into the debate of “elegance†and “popularity†in new style. Elegance and popularity are two essential elements in the art of music, which not only affect the development and trend of the musical practice but also represent the aesthetic features of the public. With the vicissitudes of time, the relations between elegance and popularity in music culture are also changing. In this case, under the impact of modern social culture, what is the development tendency to elegance and popularity in China’s popular music? In this essay, the authors will take the psychological aspect of both social group and individual into thorough consideration.