Mandopop

Mandopop
Stylistic origins
Cultural origins1920s–1940s, Shanghai, Republic of China
Other topics
Mandopop
Traditional Chinese華語流行音樂
Simplified Chinese华语流行音乐
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáyǔ liúxíng yīnyuè
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWaa4jyu5 lau4hang4 jam1ngok6

Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s.[1] "Mandopop" may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though Mandopop predates Cantopop,[clarification needed] the English term was coined around 1980 after "Cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time, some of which were versions of Cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin.[2]

Mandopop is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Popular music sung in Mandarin was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. It originated in Shanghai; later, Hong Kong, Taipei and Beijing also emerged as important centers of the Mandopop music industry.[3] Among the regions and countries where Mandopop is most popular are mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore.

  1. ^ Moskowitz, Marc L. (2009). "In Mandopop under siege: culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music". Popular Music. 28/1: 69–83. doi:10.1017/S026114300800161X. S2CID 35402405.
  2. ^ Tony Mitchell. "Tian Ci – Faye Wong and English Songs in the Cantopop and Mandapop Repertoire". Local Noise. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012.
  3. ^ Marc L. Moskowitz (2009). Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations. University of Hawaii Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0824834227.