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C-pop Singers
C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music (), a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (the Greater China region). This also includes countries where Chinese languages are used by parts of the population, such as Singapore and Malaysia. C-pop is used as an umbrella term covering not only Chinese pop but also R&B, ballads, Chinese rock, Chinese hip hop and Chinese ambient music, although Chinese rock diverged during the early 1990s. There are currently three main subgenres within C-pop: Cantopop, Mandopop and Hokkien pop. The gap between Cantopop and Mandopop has been narrowing in the new millennium. Hokkien pop, initially strongly influenced by Japanese enka, has been re-integrating into C-pop and narrowing its trend of development towards Mandopop. Chinese popular music in China was initially a vehicle for the Cultural Revolution and Maoist ideologies; however, during the country's extensive political and cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Shidaiqu
Shidaiqu () is a type of Chinese popular music that is a fusion of Chinese folk, American jazz and Hollywood film music that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s.Shoesmith, Brian. Rossiter, Ned. 004(2004). Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan flows, political tempos and aesthetic Industries. Routeledge Publishing. Terminology The term literally translates to 'songs of the era' in Mandarin Chinese. When sung in Cantonese, it is commonly referred to as ; in Amoy Hokkien, it is known as . These terms incorporate the native names for the dialects. The term is believed to have originated in Hong Kong to describe a genre of popular Chinese music that gained prominence in Shanghai during the early to mid-20th century. This genre emerged as a fusion of traditional Chinese melodies, Western musical elements, and influences from jazz and popular music of the time. Musicality Shidaiqu is a kind of fusion music that makes use of jazz musical instruments (castanets, maracas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government, government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 until Communist victory resulted in their total control over mainland China on 7 December 1949. The war is generally divided into two phases with an interlude: from August 1927 to 1937, the First United Front alliance of the KMT and CCP collapsed during the Northern Expedition, and the Nationalists controlled most of China. From 1937 to 1945, hostilities were mostly put on hold as the Second United Front fought the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese invasion of China with eventual help from the Allies of World War II. However, armed clashes between the groups remained common. Exacerbating the divisions within China further was the formation of the Wang Jingwei regime, a Japan-sponsored puppet government led by Wang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Japanese Invasion Of Manchuria
The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded the Manchuria region of the Republic of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden incident, a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext to invade. At the war's end in February 1932, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. The occupation lasted until mid-August 1945, towards the end of the Second World War, in the face of an onslaught by the Soviet Union and Mongolia during the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. With the invasion having attracted great international attention, the League of Nations produced the Lytton Commission (headed by British politician Victor Bulwer-Lytton) to evaluate the situation, with the organization delivering its findings in October 1932. Its findings and recommendations that the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo not be recognized and the return of Manchuria to Chinese sovereignty prompted the Japanese government to withdraw from the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Xinmin Weekly
''Xinmin Weekly'' (), literally meaning "New People Weekly", or "New Citizen Weekly", is a weekly news magazine published in Shanghai, China. It is owned by the Shanghai United Media Group. The magazine was officially launched on January 4, 1999. History ''Xinmin Weekly'' is Shanghai's first comprehensive weekly news magazine, as the first newly created media after ''Wenhui Bao'' and ''Xinmin Evening News ''Xinmin Evening News'' (), formerly known as ''Xinmin Po'', is a state-owned newspaper published since September 1929 in Shanghai, China. It is owned by Shanghai United Media Group. History In 1990, Xinmin Evening News personnel were dispatche ...'' jointly formed a newspaper group. References External links Official website of ''Xinmin Weekly''Old official website of ''Xinmin Weekly'' 1999 establishments in Shanghai Chinese-language magazines (Simplified Chinese) Magazines established in 1999 Magazines published in Shanghai News magazines published in Asia Weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Bright Moon Song And Dance Troupe
The Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe (Chinese: 明月歌舞团; pinyin: Míngyuè Gēwǔtuán) was a group founded by Li Jinhui from the late 1920s through the 1930s. It is also translated as Bright Moonlight Song and Dance Troupe. Background During the C-pop, Chinese popular music boom era in the early 1930s, Shanghai had a large number of :wikt:troupe, troupes, or music groups, competing for radio broadcasts and other entertainment slots. These groups were composed mostly of sing-song girls. Recognition The troupe merged with Lianhua Film Company in 1931 as the first Chinese popular music group of any sort to become part of the Cinema of China, movie industry. The company would later prove to be instrumental in the rise of the first generation of shidaiqu music.Jones. Andrew F. [2001] (2001). Yellow Music - CL: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press. Famous members * Zhou Xuan * Wang Renmei * Nie Er * Bai Hong * Li Lili * Li Mingh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Jazz Orchestra
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands. Big bands started as accompaniment for dancing the Lindy Hop. In contrast to the typical jazz emphasis on improvisation, big bands relied on written compositions and arrangements. They gave a greater role to bandleaders, arrangers, and sections of instruments rather than soloists. Instruments Big bands generally have four sections: trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and a rhythm section of guitar, piano, double bass, drums and sometimes vibraphone or other percussion. The division in early big bands, from the 1920s to 1930s, was typically two or th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Pentatonic
A pentatonic scale is a Scale (music), musical scale with five Musical note, notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale). Pentatonic scales were developed independently by many ancient civilizations and are still used in various musical styles to this day. As Leonard Bernstein put it: "The universality of this scale is so well known that I'm sure you could give me examples of it, from all corners of the earth, as from Scotland, or from China, or from Africa, and from American Indian cultures, from East Indian cultures, from Central and South America, Australia, Finland ...now, that is a true musico-linguistic universal." There are two types of pentatonic scales: Those with semitones (hemitonic) and those without (anhemitonic). Types Hemitonic and anhemitonic Musicology commonly classifies pentatonic scales as either ''hemitonic'' or ''anhemitonic''. Hemitonic scales contain one or more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Chinese Folk Music
The music of China consists of many distinct traditions, often specifically originating with one of the country's various Ethnic groups in China, ethnic groups. It is produced within and without the country, involving either people of Chinese origin, the use of traditional Chinese instruments, Chinese music theory, or the languages of China. It includes traditional classical forms and indigenous folk music, as well as recorded popular music and forms inspired by Western culture. Documents and archaeological artifacts from early History of China, Chinese civilization show a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou dynasty (1122–256 BC) that set the tone for the continual development of Chinese musicology in following dynasties. These developed into a wide variety of forms through succeeding dynasties, producing the heritage that is part of the Chinese cultural landscape today. Traditional forms continued to evolve in the modern times, and over the course of the last c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Li Minghui
Li Minghui (, 1909 – 9 December 2003) was a Chinese actress, dancer, and singer. The daughter of Li Jinhui, she featured in his musicals from a young age, despite tradition expecting female roles to be played by men. By the age of eighteen she had appeared in numerous films, stage dramas, and phonograph records, taking a hiatus in 1928 to tour Southeast Asia with her father's Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe. After returning to China, she worked for the United Photoplay Service and continued her singing and acting through 1938. Biography Li was born in Xiangtan, Hunan, in 1909. Her father, Li Jinhui, was a noted composer and professor at Beijing University. Having organized his own touring troupe, he trained Minghui in singing and dancing from a young age. She and her parents lived in Beijing in 1916, moving to Shanghai in 1921. There, she studied at the Liangjiang Women's Normal School. Around this time, she began to feature in musicals staged by her father, which include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Drizzle (song)
"Drizzle" () is a Mandarin-language song written by Li Jinhui in 1927 and recorded by his daughter Minghui in 1928. Blending traditional Chinese folk music with western influences, the song lyrically promotes romantic love. After the success of the original recording, in 1934 Li Minghui recorded a new version with a faster tempo and heavier jazz influences. The song has been described as one of the earliest works of Chinese popular music, as well as a pioneer of the '' shidaiqu'' genre. Writing Li Jinhui, the writer of "Drizzle", produced numerous popular and children's songs in the Mandarin language, seeking to facilitate its adoption throughout the Republic of China as a national language. "Drizzle" blended diverse influences, including traditional Chinese strings, jazz-inspired woodwinds, and elements of Jewish klezmer. These influences are attributed by the music historian Andrew Jones to the presence of Russian Jews in Pathé Records' house band; they had emigrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Toby Miller
Toby Miller (9 August 1958) is a British/Australian- American cultural studies and media studies scholar. He is the author of several books and articles. He was chair of the Department of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and is most recently a professor at Loughborough University. Prior to his academic career, Miller worked in broadcasting, banking, and civil service. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal ''Open Cultural Studies'', published by De Gruyter. Biography Miller was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in Australia. He earned a B.A. in history and political science at Australian National University in 1980 and a PhD in philosophy and communication studies at Murdoch University in 1991. In July 2004, Miller became a full-time professor at UCR following a stint as a visiting professor. Formerly, he was a professor in the Departments of English, Sociology, and Women's Studies, as well as director of the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |