A Research On The News Coverage Of Chinese Rock And Roll In Southern Weekend

The thesis targets at news reports of Chinese rock in the past 30 years from Southern Weekend, combining quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis to discuss the tracks and reasons of the reports which have been on the development of Chinese rock in the past 30 years from Southern Weekend. Based on data to present how Southern Weekend‘represents’ Chinese rock subculture, the thesis draws special attention to analyze the reports from Southern Weekend, hoping to uncover the exact role Southern Weekend being the mainstream media play within the relationship between mainstream culture and rock subculture. Through detail analysis from levels of policies, economies and culture, it comes out that there are three steps during the period: filling hope, modeling the past and expecting commercialization. Benefit from that, it is expected to manage the relationship between different periods of development of Chinese rock subculture and mainstream culture represented by Southern Weekend through a diachronic perspective, which turns out to be positive interactions, alienations within interactions and commercial incorporations.Through the analysis of this paper, it is believed that the relationship between the mainstream culture and rock subculture is not static or rigid, nor is it privative, but showing a diverse cultural relations with the time goes on, which will definitely enlighten us for better understanding the relationships between mainstream culture and subculture like rock as well as others.