Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Political music in China (政治歌曲) consists of Patriotic Music (爱国歌曲) and Revolutionary Music (革命歌曲). It is an ideological music with political or nationalistic content, sometimes taking the form of a modernized Chinese traditional music written or adapted for some form of grand presentation with an orchestra.
Pages in category "Maoist China propaganda songs" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
"The East Is Red" is a Chinese Communist Party revolutionary song that was the de facto national anthem of the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The lyrics of the song were attributed to Li Youyuan (李有源), a farmer from Shaanbei (northern Shaanxi), and the melody was derived from a local peasant love song from the Loess Plateau entitled "Bai Ma Diao ...
"The Wings of Songs" premiered in China on March 28 and is about a Uyghur, a Kazakh, and a Han Chinese man forming a musical group.
Aspects of propaganda can be traced back to the earliest periods of Chinese history, but propaganda has been most effective in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries owing to mass media and an authoritarian government. [3] Propaganda was an important tool in legitimizing the Nationalist government, which retreated to Taiwan in 1949.
"Socialism is Good" (simplified Chinese: 社会主义好; traditional Chinese: 社會主義好; pinyin: shèhuìzhǔyì hǎo) is a Chinese Communist Party propaganda song from before the Cultural Revolution, composed in 1958 by Li Huanzhi, [1] with lyrics written by Xi Yang. [2]
The first three measures of the chorus of this song were used repeatedly as background music in Hong Kong 97, an infamous bootleg Super Famicom game released in 1995. [2] The game, whose plot involved the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, had a strong anti-communist sentiment, and therefore, the song was used sarcastically .
Following the formation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Chinese government and musical artists were consistently in line with one another; with the government specifically calling for the production of socialist propaganda and artists responding by creating music praising the revolutionary spirit of the time period and professing their hopes for the future. [2]