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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Magazine Genre

There is a huge variety of music magazine genres and an even bigger variety music in general they have started to go in to decline because of peoples lack of money and the online twitter revaluation. here is a few of the genres of magazines I have seen on the shelves and on line to order.
Rock
  an almost completely organic music style as it only really uses live instruments or synth versions of organic instruments. it generally characterised by its use of heavy guitars, a constant bass line and a heavy but regular drum. it also normally has a singer or guitar as the lead.
in general the magazines of rock appeal to the angst filled teen or the rock loving adult. standard modern rock has a wide verity and actually vary from band to band and go from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU
to this type of look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk1u5RMTn4
so magazines like kerrang! have to cater to a wide variety of music lovers.
rock is seen as one of the genres of 'youth' culture music and actually when its represented on media i+t tends to stick to common conventions of youth representation.
J-Pop
standing for japanese pop it is happy sounding and almost exclusively uses major chords. the magazines normally are also happy and very colourful.
this is the typical jpop magazine. very colourful and typically japanese pop culture.
J-pop actually is just the term for Japanese Pop music that was first inspired by western music during the 50s and has developed to its own style of music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g
J-Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujEHONbQMWs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
this is a typical japanese rock music an follows the conventions almost 50% rock and 50% jpop and this is an epic style of music. It is listened to by the Goth or Neon Emo croud and has a stigma in japan as being listened to by the "Wrong Crowd"
Rap
Its a spoken style of lyrics and is normally distinct with its heavy and rhythmics beat and "dirty" sound.listened to generaly by the underground people or by chavs is is close to pop as it is widely listened to by the general public. it is looked upon by many as the "Immoral and gangster" music so as a result it doesn't have much in the way of magazines that other mainstream genres have.

My Choice:
After looking at these different genres, I have chosen jrock as my genre as it is a style of music I have a huge interest in. Also I have a large knowledge of Japanese culture and as a result I can appeal to the niche market in the UK who are also (like me) interested in jrock. There is a place in the market for a magazine like this because it is a very popular genre for people my age (15-30 years) and there are not many magazines that represent this group who like this genre meaning I won't have to compete against mainstream conglomerate institution companies as none make a magazine like this.

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