Course Reflection

Overall, I learned four unit in this class. I learned about music, movie, pop star, and pop culture. I believe the topic influenced me thinking the most is unit 4 which is music. I know music has related to pop culture, but I never knew that music contains so much knowledge. I listened to pop music from my own country, and I never learned about music from other countries. I didn't know much about the source of music, so this chapter made me think a lot. I believe that music is a culture that is as plain as nothing, and it is not special before I learn about this unit. After this unit, I know there is so many knowledges include in music that I can learn. I learn so much in this unit, and I feel this is not a boring unit, because I am a person who like to listen music always. This unit is related to my daily life. I learned that there have been so many types of music around us. After I understand this unit, I discover that music can be very powerful. I learn four different units in this class. However, this is the one I am not feel bored for it and I feel a little interesting. I like this class and I hope I can learn more about culture in the future.

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A Cool Pop Culture App

Zenly is a French-developed app that is a popular real-time location app in Europe for sharing real-time location information between family and friends.

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3 Unique Pop Culture Websites

https://kg.qq.com/ (A website for singing)
http://www.4399.com/ (A website for playing games)
https://www.mgtv.com/ (A website for watching TV)

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Heather Zeng

      I learn so many about pop culture after watch all the information. Generally speaking, pop culture is relatively speaking with elegant culture. Elegance culture generally includes “classical music, serious novels, poetry, dance, elegant art, and other works that are appreciated by relatively few educated people. Pop culture is a culture that is generally liked and enthusiastically followed, its main function. It is entertainment. According to the above culture and popular discussion, we can also simply define it as a universal lifestyle that many people practice and follow. Culture is something we need to learn until we die. There has four different main types or elements of pop culture. For example, production analysis, textual analysis, audience analysis, and historical analysis. All the pop cultures are not only for amusement, pedagogy too. Pop culture is something that has power to bring the different background people closer. People always have different culture, but people bring each other together with a common topic. I think this is pop culture. Pop culture is always there, and it needs recognition. There has so many things become pop culture. The capitalist society since the 1960s has entered a new era dominated by the production of consumer culture. The characteristics of popular culture in this era. First, pop culture shortens its production and production cycle. Second, pop culture takes more. Third, the pop culture community is focused on the development of modern science and technology, more technical and technical reproduction. Pop culture is not easy to define. Pop culture is a rich and complex composition of fashion, fashion, consumer culture, leisure culture, luxury culture, material culture, popular lifestyle, popular taste, urban culture, subculture, popular culture and mass culture. concept. This general concept represents a culture that is widely spread among people of different levels, classes and classes at a certain pace, in a certain period, in a certain region or globally.

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Pinboard Music

• “Mask off” is a song that is from a genre that is new to me

Trap is a new music genre for me because I did not hear about this before. "Mask off" is one of the songs include in Trap. This song sang by Future, and it released in April 18, 2017. Moreover, the genre of this music Hip hop,trap, and cloud rap.

• “Love with all my heart” is a song from my parents' generation

This song was very popular during my parents' generation. (Late 1990s). It is a Chinese song sing by a Hong Kong singer. The song is all talk about love. This song released in September 30, 1996. Moreover, this is a song that come with the album called 《Love With All My Heart》.

• “Today my life begins” is a song that shows my generation's values

This is a song in my generation which is 20th century. It released in 2010, and it became popular. This song was talking about powerful, love, and energy. It is a song that every inspirational. I believe most of the people who like this song is because the power of the song.

• “Day by day” is a song from a different culture

It is a K-pop song, and it was released in July 3, 2012. It is very popular, and it is a song has a big story about love. This song has two different parts, and this two parts make a story. A story between two sister in the future with super power.

• “If I were a boy” is a song whose lyrics I can explain

If I were a boy is a song sang by Beyonce, and it released in October 12, 2008. The song examines the attitude of men towards love from the perspective of women. The song's lyrics is to admonish the boys should love the girls well before losing their loved.

• “Wild child” is my all-time favorite song

This was a song released in 2002, and it is my favorite song. This song is very popular in my country. This song is talking about a girl likes a boy who loves so many girls. Although the boy likes her and wants to get her, she knows that this boy will not like her forever. So she would rather let this boy not get it, because the boy would remember such a special woman because he didn't get it.

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Music Genre

Motown Music

January 12, 1959

African American

meaningful and successful

soul music

     Motown music is a kind of music for African Americans. It is a kind of music for African Americans to sing, and most of the artists under this company are black. The reason to create this music genre because people who create want African Americans have a stage to show themselves.