Cantopop

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Cantopop ( Chinese  粵語 流行 音樂  /  粤语 流行 音乐 , Pinyin yuèyǔ liúxíng yīnyuè , Jyutping jyut 6 jyu lau 4 hang 4 jam 1 ngok 6 ) is the abbreviation for Cantonese Popular Music , a form of music originating from Hong Kong that is widely used beyond Hong Kong Asia is successful.

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Cantopop is a sub-form of C-pop , which is very popular in all of East Asia , with its own characteristics, which emerged from a fusion of western pop and rock music with traditional Chinese music. The cultural and musical isolation of Hong Kong is style-defining for the cantopop. The cantopop became popular in mainland China due to the opening of the People's Republic to Western influences in recent decades. The cantopop industry in Hong Kong is closely linked to the film industry.

History of origin

Western music first came to China in the 1920s and quickly gained popularity. With the rise of the Communist Party and the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, one of the first measures was to designate Western music as pornography and banned it. With the large number of immigrants pouring into Hong Kong from the mainland in the early 1950s, many Shanghai musicians also reached the city. In the 1960s, alongside traditional Cantonese opera and Chinese-influenced Western music from Shanghai, Western pop and rock music gained influence. Following the example of Western musicians such as Elvis Presley and the Beatles , Cantonese performers such as Tang Kee-chan ( 鄧 寄 塵  /  邓 寄 尘 ) or Cheng Kuan-min ( 鄭君 綿  /  郑君 绵 ) began professional recording and marketing of Cantonese music based on the Western model for the first time. Hong Kong musicians were still imitating American and British bands in the 1970s. With the development of the film industry in Hong Kong in the early 1970s, the cantopop experienced its greatest boom. The mass-produced films and soap operas called for Western music that also picked up melodies that were familiar and familiar to the people of Hong Kong. Several popular cantopop hits originate from this time. In the 1980s, the cantopop continued to gain popularity and became known to Singapore and Malaysia through Chinese emigrants from Hong Kong and became their identities. At the beginning of the 90s, several greats of the cantopop, such as Alan Tam , Leslie Cheung or Priscilla Chan decided to end their musical careers. Due to the Asian crisis and the return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong film industry lost sales and influence, which also had an impact on the cantopop. While cantopop is still a popular music genre on the mainland, just like C-pop , Hong Kong's media culture is now mainly shaped by western pop and rock music by both western and Chinese musicians.

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