Influence of Popular Music on Mass Culture in Contemporary China

Popular music is widely transmitted in people's daily life, which has important influence on communicability, universality and sociality of mass culture in contemporary China.Popular music gradually integrates into people's life.Listening to some happy popular music in sadness is helpful for relieving the mood.Listening to some inspirational popular music in work can encourage people to make great efforts.Listening to some easy popular music in sleepless night is helpful for sleep.According to prosperous development of mass culture in China, popular music plays an important role in our life.As one of mass culture representatives, popular music plays an important role in communication of contemporary mass culture in China. Communicability of popular music Overview of popular musicPopular music is also termed as public music.Generally, it refers to popular songs or instruments widely accepted by people and with lively pattern and sincere emotion.Popular music includes jazz in western music, rock, soul, rap, blue, new age and other kinds of mass popular music.Influenced by European and American popular music, Chinese popular music gradually forms its unique style.Popular music is sung by many people.Such definition is equivalent to positioning popular music on the foundation of popular music.It is incompletely correct.Although popular is one characteristic of popular music, popular music is essentially a kind of commodity music.Commodity music refers to music created for the purpose of profit.Commodity of popular music decides the fact that we cannot list those inspiring and non-commercial songs into popular music, such as March of the Volunteers and The East Is Red.However, music categories belonging to popular music but paid no attention to are excluded from popular music.Therefore, not all popular songs belong to popular music.Popular music may not be popular.