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  2. Revolutionary opera - Wikipedia

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    Model operas were performed on stages, broadcast on the radio, made into films, and sung by millions. They were the only form of mass theatrical entertainment in China at the time. [6] Unlike European opera, which was essentially entertainment for the elite, revolutionary opera had become a popular political art.

  3. Category:Musicals set in the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Musicals set in the 1950s" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Bésame mucho, el musical; Blood Brothers (musical)

  4. Shidaiqu - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  5. Timeline of Chinese music - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Western opera in Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Other notable geju companies around China include the Liaoning geju yuan, based in Shenyang and others. The status of geju has been boosted by availability of new world-class venues such as the China's National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing ("The Big Egg" on Tiananmen Square East) and the new Shanghai Grand Theatre.

  7. Music of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the 1950s massive waves of immigrants fled from Shanghai to Hong Kong. [4] Along with it was the Pathé Records (Hong Kong) record company, which ended up becoming one of the most significant popular record companies in Hong Kong. The Western music was popular since 1950s as the official language was English at that time.

  8. Category:Musicals set in China - Wikipedia

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  9. Mandopop - Wikipedia

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    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] "