1: One interesting thing I
had found on the internet was “The East Is Red” song. This song is a simplified,
traditional Chinese revolutionary song during the Cultural Revolution. This
song is categorized under pinyin, which is the official romanization system
used to teach standard Mandarin Chinese. This song was in fact the national anthem
of the People’s Republic of China. The lyrics of this song was given by a
farmer, Li Youyuan, from northern Shaanxi. The melody of the song was from a
basic local folk song and he was inspired by the rising sun in the early
morning.
2: It was very fun to
read and know about the Zhongguo feng music which was a popular Chinese music
genre starting from the 2000s. It was not until the success of a Taiwanese singer
named Jay Chou’s works. This music is said to combine mostly the traditional
music styles in the instruments than modern popular music.
This pop music typically involves
most of the traditional Chinese musical instruments. It includes pipa, guzheng,
erhu, dizi, yangqin, gong, paiban and others. It also uses some western
instruments like piano, guitar, violin and cello.
3: Trot is a type of
music genre belonging to Korea. It is basically a type that has “repetitive
rhythm and vocal inflections”. This is influenced my music from many genres of
Korean, Japanese, U.S. and European. But, later after K-Pop began to rise its
popularity starting in 1990s, Trot music lost it popularity and was considered
as “old-fashioned”. Trot is sung solo or as a duet at the most. It is usually
played by a band orchestra. Some times it is only accompanied by a guitar and
accordion.
I have just recently started listening to K-Pop. I am so glad it introduced it to me because it is now my absolute favorite thing to listen too. So catchy I must say. I have never heard of Trot but I really like it. It does remind me of K-Pop a lot and it is something I think I could listen too. I just hate it lost popularity. It should defintely make a come-back! I also enjoyed listening to the traditional chinese music.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Zhongguo feng music was cool. I really liked the video that you put with it, it was cute.
ReplyDeleteI always love to hear music blending a country's traditional sounds with their new sounds. Zhongguo feng is a really great example of this.
ReplyDeleteYou know, that first video is actually an entire movie! I followed to youtube, where it explains that it's a 1965 movie depicting the Chinese Revolution. Really interesting!
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