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Taiwan campus folk song, campus folk song, or campus folk rock (Chinese: 校園民歌) is a genre of Taiwanese music with its roots as student songs in the campuses of Taiwanese universities during the 1970s.
Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (Chinese: 臺語流行音樂), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk (Chinese: 臺語歌), is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia.
In the mid-1970s a genre of popular music known as Taiwanese campus folk song appeared in the music scene of Taiwan. This music consisted of a fusion of elements from American folk rock and Chinese folk music, and was very popular throughout East Asia.
Pan An-bang (Chinese: 潘安邦; pinyin: Pān Ānbāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Phoaⁿ An-pang; 10 September 1954 – 3 February 2013), was a Taiwanese pop and folk singer, television presenter and actor. He was famous for the song "Grandma's Penghu Bay" (外婆的澎湖灣), which is one of the classic Taiwanese campus folk songs in the late 1970s. He ...
The peak of her popularity in Taiwan was from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but she remains popular in Mainland China. [1] Tsai's albums Tsai Chin Live 2007 and Golden Voice were both recognized with a "Top-10-Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year" award at the 2007 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI. [2]
She is considered a critical link in Taiwan's music history, bridging the traditional Taiwan folk songs of the 1970s with the emerging Mandopop scene of the 1990s. [3] Chen won Taiwan's Best Female Singer awards three times at the Golden Bell Awards in 1985, and at the Golden Melody Awards in 1992 and 1996. [ 4 ]
This led to the explosion of folk songs on campuses throughout Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s. [6] In 1994, Paiwan poet Maljaljaves Mulaneng recalled that when he saw Li's swollen corpse in the morgue, he remembered the days when "I used to watch him paint, he would sing his folk songs, and I would Paiwan folk songs." “I was overcome with ...
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] "