A Research on the Fragmented Culture of Iran's Youth in the Content of Pop Music Lyrics

This research was done in order to describe the content of proposed lyrics’ concepts in permissible pop music based on published audio works’ list of music publication office in 2009 among 200 albums of music office published audio works, the 10 number of pop singers were randomly selected and the lyrics’ concept of 70 music were also investigated. In the process of data analysis in the first step (open coding) were obtained 504 codes. The open coding is the process of breaking and conceptualizing data. The level 1 codes are relatively simple and changed gradually. In the second step, with summarizing codes in the similar groups were obtained 76 categories and the third step means that oriented coding of youth isolation and gender categories in the content of pop lyrics were selected as a central categories. In this study, the content of 70 lyrics were examined in the 10 singers’ albums in which 45/83% of concepts relate to gender and 54/16% (273 cases) relate to youth isolation. It’s obvious from this findings which 54/16 % (273 cases) of proposed concepts in the content of lyrics is allocated to the concepts which have a sign of isolation, unwillingness and give in. Youth fragmented culture adopted of pop music have a sign of youth isolation, unwillingness and give in. It’s recommended that culture and music supervisory especially pop music programmers and responsible persons pay attention to this important matter and take action with more supervisory on lyrics and music content along enriching.