| Genre |
Famous Artists |
Comments |
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| Traditional |
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- Chinese Opera
- Beijing Opera
- Cantonese (Yue) Opera
- Sichuan Opera
Huang Mei Opera
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Normally City Sponsored
Artiste Troops |
This is the stuff that sounds like
a scalded cat! It is actually very technical and
akin to Western Opera in skill. However, not many
Chinese listen to it either!
Huang Mei Opera is considered to be the original
Chinese Opera, and has its roots in the lives
of ordinary people. "Lament of a Child Bride"
is a very powerful example of this highly interesting
type of music. |
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| Classical |
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- Same as in the West
- Soloists
- Modern Cross-over Bands
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- Beijing Philharmonic
- Lang Lang (Long Long)
- 12 Girls Band
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Differences are the
inclusion of a far greater number of instruments
than found in a normal orchestra. These are often
of ancient Chinese origin - and work very well! |
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| Folk Music |
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- Acoustic Music
- Old instruments
- Songs of ordinary people
- Some R&B
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- Teresa
- Tong Li
- Liu Fang
- Local acoustic guitarists
- Pang Long
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This is a catch-all
group, and not like Western Folk music. It includes
anything that doesn't fit into 'Classical' or
'Pop', and is normally music that can be played
by anyone acoustically
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| Pop |
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- Every genre from the West since C 1954
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- The Everly Bros
- The Beatles
- Shania Twain
- Michael Jackson
- Ice T
- Westlife
- George Michael
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This really is a mega
category, and Chinese never imply the same intensity
to sub-genres as found in the West
Basically: If it is world famous, you can find
it here - which includes being 'World Famous'
throughout Asia! |
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- Twins
- Jackie
- Aaron Kwok
- Faye Wong
- Andy Lau
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Canto-pop is characterized
by catchy tunes and romantic lyrics and, along
with Taiwanese and Western pop, has heavily influenced
modern mainstream Chinese music to produce mainland
Mando-pop. Some of the biggest names in Chinese
pop today are Aaron Kwok, Faye Wong and the multitalented
Andy Lau. |
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Here we find all the
other world famous bands - mainly from HK, Taiwan,
and S. Korea. They sing in Mandarin (Usually)
with phrases of English/Other. In Asia, SHE have
similar musical status to Westlife/Spice Girls |
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| Rock |
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Chinese follow rock
music closely, and it includes bands from across
the spectrum of time |
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Beyond are bigger here
today than Queen in UK - and their lead singer
also died about 12 years ago
Shin will teach you a lot about Cantonese culture
and thinking |
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| Club Music |
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- Local Radio
- Club Anthems Cd's
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I can't really split this category
in China, as anything from Early Ibiza and Ministry
of Sound, right up to the latest offerings - is
very popular and widely played
China is not so good at the Trance and 'Mellow'
styles (Cafe Del Mar) |
World Music
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| Basically any music from other
world regions that simply doesn't have a neat
category for filing |
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This entry is just to inform you
that Chinese do listen to a wide variety of music
from all over the world |
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| KoGou |
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Chinese 'Winamp' or Real Player |
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Any currently popular 'Easy Listening'
Chinese music + extensive download library |
KuGou is China's most popular
music download portal, and we are assured it
kosher re Intellectual Property Rights
Our 'Sample Playlist' contains songs in both
Mandarin and Cantonese |
| What is very special
for language students, is that this programme
offers Chinese 'KTV' characters as a screen 'on-top'.
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