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Shidaiqu music is rooted in both traditional Chinese folk music and the introduction of Western jazz during the years when Shanghai was under the Shanghai International Settlement. In the 1920s the intellectual elite in Shanghai and Beijing embraced the influx of Western music and movies that entered through trade. [ 5 ]
People's Republic of China: Baak Doi leaves China in 1952 and relocates to Hong Kong. Mao Zedong and CCP evolved patriotic music into revolutionary music. Hong Kong: Continuation of Shidaiqu in Hong Kong. Republic of China / Taiwan: Development of Taiwanese mandopop. Native Hokkien pop phased out by Kuomintang in favor of mandopop.
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87515-8. Explores the culture produced including the eight "model operas." Lois Wheeler Snow, China on Stage: An American Actress in the People's Republic (New York: Random House, 1972) ISBN 0394468740. A sympathetic eyewitness account.
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A second wave followed National Music Week, 1956, which lasted till the last geju Ayiguli in 1966 on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. [10] 1956 - Chen Zi and Liang Kexiang: Spring Blossoms Yingchunhua kaile (libretto by Lu Cang, Wang Lie) 1956 - Du Yu: Mongolian themed folk opera The Gada plum blossoms based on the Mongolian folk song Gada ...
The film and music industry had already begun to shift to Hong Kong in the '40s, and by the 1950s Hong Kong had become the centre of the entertainment industry. [1] While some of the seven continued to perform for many years, Zhou Xuan died in 1957, Yoshiko retired from entertainment in 1958, and Bai Guang stopped recording in 1959. [citation ...
Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour. It was adapted for a 1961 musical film.
In the 1960s Hong Kong counted the style as much as an opera as it was a music genre. Today it is more of a traditional performance art with efforts of revival in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and mostly sung in Mandarin. In 2006, Huangmei Opera was selected for the first batch of China's national intangible cultural heritage.