By:Raymond and Calvin

Kpop

What is world music?• World Music means different things to

different people, making it difficult to define.• This seems to imply that world music is a

large category. • Basically world music is a musical category as

surrounds many different styles of music from around the world.

K-Pop?Kpop- is an abbriviation of Korean Popular Pop, Kpop has grown into a popular side culture among teenagers and young adults around the worldKpop is actually a musical genre consisting of dance, electronic, electropop, hip-hop, rock and R&B music originating in South Korea.

The K-pop History?The Korean Pop industry started during the colonization time it was started as a genre of jazz, due to the western adaptations. The variety of western music really affected the Korean composer which then they adapted it.Not long after in the 1960s, it becomes their own genre. Kayo and Pop, meaning blending old and new. Kayo means Korean popular songs in general, or ‘indigenous’ style music. Pop generally means Western or Latin popular music or western influenced.

History...• The first two korean pop bands was “The Add

Four” and “The Key Boys”, they played as the performances in level of domestic audience.

• Year by year the Korean pop culture rapidly changed and it becomes more and more to their own style of music. A group called Seoul-a-Go-Go begin a movement that changes the whole concept of pop in Korea it was called Midnight Revolution in the 1970s.

• Literally it goes on until 2001. There it went on to divine the Korean pop into a dance and electripop culture a more common word boyband & girlband until the Kpop influenced goes at its peak in the year 2006

How did Kpop become popular?Unlike western music K-pop goal is attracting global audience. Some lyrics in the korean song are in english to expand its audience.Kpop now adays also uses unique dance moves that synchronize each of the dancers movement or easy dance movements are choreographed to let other people join the dance. Thus, faces and fashion that Korean artists have also help attract people all around the world.

The role of K-Pop in international societyRecently K-pop had made a huge impact to the society around the world. By influencing young adults through their songs. Because of the “Hallyu Wave(Korean Wave)” many people manage to made lots of effort to “cover” their favorite korean artist. The impact of K-pop had made many people around the globe becomes a K-Pop fan.

Impact of K-Pop still...Up until now many Kpop fans around the world have contributed to donate to various charities taken from example a blood donation from Girls Generation’s Singaporean fans, 500Kg of rice from Sulli’s fanbase to the child institution in Yeun Chun, 0.73 tons of rice from T-ara’s Korean fans to hungry children(location not specified). Basically the impact it’s not just for entertaining but a movement that helps other people in need.

Elements of Music• We are analyzing the song “Sorry Sorry” by Super Junior

which simply defines K-Pop because their the music itself has:

• Vocal music: They use harmony in their vocals which give the extra touch in their style,

• The melody is repeating itself again and again (forming a repetition) which that is why people could remember their catchy tune.

• Their texture is doing multiple voices it defines as polyphony which K-pop also inputs two or more independent melodic voices. It could also become as a homophony texture.

• The Rhythm or the beat of most K-Pop song would be at 100 bpm and above for “Sorry Sorry” its 130 bpm

• The dynamics of K-Pop song are commonly “loud” because it’s all about dance, electricpop, and so forth

Korean songs that has the most Impact.

In Korea Date Around the world

Date

박정현 (Lena Park) – 꿈에 (In Dreams)

2002 DBSK - Rising Sun 2006Kinetic Flow, featuring 이루마 (Yiruma) – 몽환의 숲 (Forest of Phantasm)

2006 WonderGirls - Nobody 2008

박효신 (Park Hyo-Shin) – 그 곳에 서서 (Standing There)

2004 Kara – Lupin 2010

Drunken Tiger – Good Life 2001 Girls Generation -

Gee 2009Cherry Filter – 여신의 나무 (The Goddess’s Tree)

2007 Super Junior – Sorry Sorry 2009

리쌍 (Lee Ssang), featuring 정인 (Jung-In) – 리쌍부르쓰 (The Lee Ssang Blues)

2003 2NE1 – I Don’t Care 2009

이승철 (Lee Seung-Chul) – 하얀새 (White Dove)

2006 Big bang - Lies 2007

 Clazziquai Project –  내게로 와 (Come to Me)

2004 T-Ara – Roly Poly 2011

g.o.d. – 길 (The Road)

2001 SHINee - Lucifer 2010

The song that brings K-Pop rocketing up the chart is..

Gangnam Style!

Impact of Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style This song has been extremely influencing to all people around the globe, the song itself has its own catchy melody which many people sings along with it. PSY the creator of the song puts alot of effort into the dynamics of the song which is “loud upbeat tempo”, dynamics and melody defines his song into the most popular song in the world. Now in Youtube the music video itself has reached 650 million views and increasing. And it made the Korean Pop sensation becoming more and more viral everyday, expanding internationally.

ConclusionKorean Pop , since the beginning was unknown, unplanned, and unrecognized. However as year went by it is growing into a strong force of Korean’s own genre, they have develop increasingly with the concept of upbeat tempo, a texture that mostly consist of polyphonic, and a vocal music that always uses a perfect harmony in every of their (boyband & girlband) songs. With catchy tunes, the Kpop industry were able to attracted foreigner’s attention and made them into a K-Pop fans. The way the Korean-Pop show’s their culture when performing it is showing the power and confidence to all the people inside Korea and all round the world.

감사합니다 !

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