تحلیل نحوه برخورد و ارزش‌گذاری موسیقی راک از دیدگاه مخاطبان: مطالعۀ موردی شنوندگان ایران و ترکیه

چکیده مقاله

The term Rock used to denote a particular category of pop music. Since late 1960's rock music entered into important social, cultural and artistic discussions. Rock music influenced several generations through its rather short life. Several music genres came to exist from this music while it carried on its own life up until now. Huge number of audiences of rock music turned this music as one of the significant popular music of 20 th century. Massive attraction of people from nearly all cultural background around the world put this music in the centre of attention of several scholars in various disciplines from musicologists to sociologists. Rock can be defined along three dimensions. Sociologically, it is a commercially-produced popular music aimed at an exclusionary youth audience of a type characteristic of late-capitalist societies. Musically, it tends to be highly amplified, with a strong beat and rhythmic patterns, and to draw heavily on proto-folk musical sources from Southern USA. Ideologically, it is associated with an aesthetic programmed of 'authenticity', developing elements from discourses around folk-revival and art music (Middleton 2001: 485). In Iran, in spite of having enormous audiences of this music, there are very little studies on rock music due to various cultural, political and other issues. The current research is an effort to analysis audience's attitude and valuation, mostly Iranian and Turkish listeners, toward rock music. Since there is currently no formal event of rock music in Iran we frost to turn to one of the neighboring countries where usually is destination of Iranian rock lovers to enjoy this music. Turkey is one of the neighboring countries of Iran that Iranians need no visa to traveling to. It turns this country to first destination of Iranians to get what they cannot reach in their own country. For this reason, we attend to the three-day Istanbul Sonisphere Festival in June 2010. This study was conducted in a survey method and based on the data collected from 300 people who participated in Istanbul Sonisphere Festival. The first part of the questionnaire was devoted to personal and general questions in which data analysis reveals: the background and familiarity with rock music of listeners, the age listeners when first were influenced by this music, ability to playing musical instruments, the average of reading resources like books, magazines and internet articles on rock, and finally the level of musical tolerance and compromising with other musical genres. In the second part of the questionnaire the attitude of listener toward the importance of three issues of music, lyric and album's cover design were asked. Total data analysis manifested: 1) "Music" as the most important element among the three issues, 2) "Thrash Metal" as the most likeable genre among the thirteen musical genres presented as the important musical genres and 3) "Freedom" as the most attractive aspect in twenty two issues related to rock music. The findings also revealed other issues toward the rock music such as the level of audience's ability to make communication with "music", "genrelogy", and "semantic appropriation". Moreover, studying the audiences of rock music in this project showed how dynamically listeners get involve with rock's lyrical, pictorial and musical structures.
(PDF) The Values of Rock Music Based On Its Listeners Views: The Cases of Iranian and Turkish Audiences Perspective تحلیل نحوۀ برخورد و ارزش گذاری موسیقی راک از دیدگاه مخاطبان: مطالعه موردی شنوندگان ایران و ترکیه. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276338422_The_Values_of_Rock_Music_Based_On_Its_Listeners_Views_The_Cases_of_Iranian_and_Turkish_Audiences_Perspective_thlyl_nhw_brkhwrd_w_arzsh_gdhary_mwsyqy_rak_az_dydgah_mkhatban_mtalh_mwrdy_shnwndgan_ayran_ [accessed Sep 26 2018].