从先锋到媚俗:当代中国流行歌曲的现代性反思

From Avant-Garde to Kitsch:Reflection on Contemporary Chinese Popular Songs

当代中国的流行歌曲可以清晰地划分为主流意识形态化的流行歌曲与非主流的流行歌曲,而后者与20世纪80年代中期文学上的"先锋派"则具有某种相同的意味。90年代以来,随着计划经济向市场经济的全面转型,通俗音乐的大众化、世俗化成为中国文化整体走向中的一种趋势,它以其敏感的神经最先表达着文化的俗化之势。新世纪流行歌曲最大的特点是通过网络传播,反映出主流意识形态对网络歌曲的认可,但也同时显现着中国流行音乐深度模式的衰微。消费时代使得音乐这样的文化艺术也成为以卖点为中心的代名词,中国当代流行歌曲完成了从先锋艺术到媚俗艺术的转型。

Contemporary Chinese popular songs fall into two categories： the mainstream and the marginalized, the latter being a result of the avant-garde literature in the middle 1980s. Since the 1990s, with the transition from planned economy to market economy, pop songs in general have undergone a certain degree of commercialization and vulgarization, which is a living proof of the commercialization and vulgarization of the whole Chinese culture. The widespread circulation of the pop songs on the Internet and their recognition by the mainstream culture indicates its total transition from avant-garde to kitsch.