Outline the significant trends in popular Chinese music since the 1930s
What will be an ideal response?
• From the 1930s film songs performed by small Western-style jazz/pop bands accompanying a pentatonic melody sung by a female film star became popular. Often these songs presented lyrics with either charming romantic images or social inequalities.
• By the 1980s the popular music industry shifted to Taiwan and Hong Kong shaped by new trends in Western and Japanese music. Reintegration of a commercial music industry in mainland China also took place, which included a variety of popular music styles—e.g., Northwest style, Chinese rock and the spread of karaoke.
• The current internationalization of contemporary Chinese music is exemplified by the Twelve Girls Band and their electronically mediated arrangements of Chinese music performed on traditional musical instruments such as erhu and pipa.
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