| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 應用媒體藝術研究所 === 95 === The purpose of this thesis is to understand the problematic consciousness developed from three perspectives – “male dilemma and social restraint overlooked by popular music studies”, “convention of popular music studies about love songs”, and “insufficiency of popular music studies about the background of fan history” – in the experience and position of male subjects. It also attempts to combine “male subject experience” and “popular music” through the analysis of music text and the empathy of fan experience. As for practice, “Bobby Chen” （陳昇） and “two fans of Bobby Chen” are selected for the study objects. By means of the qualitative research methods of “textual analysis” and “interviews on life history”, this thesis aims to explore male audience’s identification of “male voice, male song” in various situations, and to realize male audience’s sympathy with Bobby Chen or his songs under patriarchy in men’s world as well as the manifestation in life.
From the result of my research, the songs of Bobby Chen insist on, and consist of, both love and social concerns, depicting differences among city-country dichotomy, generations, and class consciousness, reflecting as well various male gender roles in the society. They also amplify what it means to be a man in many aspects, distinguishing those texts from single-minded construction of male role in traditional social values and relevant popular music studies. As far as fan studies are concerned, Bobby Chen’s male fans are likely to transform the characters, situations and social values of Chen himself or his songs into their own in life. This responds to the text of Bobby Chen, and the fans’ interpretation, replacement and creation of textual subjectivity and dynamism, which establish the interactive process between the text and the fans. Also, through the analysis of the “verbal-textual” meaning in the text of Bobby Chen (eg. subject matters of the lyrics, ideology and discourse), the “nonverbal-textual” meaning (eg. personality, voice and performance), and interactive experience of male fans, the research comprehends the analytical elements of popular music text and represents the image of a sentimental male singer with the appearance of himself (charisma) and his songs (lyrics) in the eyes of his male fans. In addition, with the classification of the features of Bobby Chen’s male fans’ duration as being fans, social and cultural context, and grown-up demonstration, this thesis can provide potential possibilities to deconstruction research concerning the overall look of fans.
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