Film songs –
What will be an ideal response?
• From the 1930s popular Chinese music was associated with the film industry centered in Shanghai. "Many film songs were performed by a small band using jazz- and Tin Pan Alley-inflected idioms to accompany a predominantly pentatonic melody sung in Mandarin by a female film star. . . . A minority of film songs drew on Chinese folk tunes accompanied by Chinese instruments or by a mixed Western-Chinese ensemble." Lyrics dealt with "charming, romantic images," or "social inequalities" if by artists hoping to stir up a progressive social awareness.
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