Ideology

Ideology is a critical concept in media studies for the students and to understand the other aspects to media.

What is Ideology?
It is an overview of a range of beliefs and attitudes to a group or society which is very important and share it through the culture.

Dichotomy-between two genres of music

Pop:

• It's all about the melody of the song and good singing.
• Pop portrays the celebrities having a clean living.
• Most pop songs are about love not sex.
• Songs are never usually to do with political matters.
• Singers don't usually play instruments and write songs.
• Sometimes pop singers can come across contrived meaning they can come across fake.
• Pop songs are happy, colourful and cheerful and the singers are usually good-looking/attractive.

Rock:

• There songs are played at a really high volume and sometimes even scream and shout.
• The rock celebrities are more real than pop singers and show the alcohol and drugs in there lives.
• There songs can relate to sex, politics and anger.
• Rock singers and bands write songs and play with instruments and are called 'Authentic'.

There are different sub-genres under Pop and Rock.

• Pop has white pop, R n B, Soul and chart music. Rock has Hip-Hop, Blues and Indie.