mandopop
Sign in to saveMandopop or mandapop refers to popular music sung in Standard Mandarin. The genre originated from the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences included Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and particularly the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s. "Mandopop" may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though mandopop predates cantopop, the English term "mandopop" was coined around 1980 after "cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to
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- Music genre.name
- Mandopop
- Music genre.stylistic_origins
- Initial: Subsequent:
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- 1920s–1940s, Shanghai, Republic of China
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- History
- Beginning of recording industry in China
- 1920s: Birth of ''Shidaiqu'' in Shanghai
- 1930s–1940s: The Seven Great Singing Stars era
- 1950s–1960s: The Hong Kong era
- 1970s–1980s
- Rise of Taiwanese Mandopop
- Mandopop after the Cultural Revolution
- 1990s
- 2000s-2010s: Growth in Mainland China
- 2020s
- Characteristics
- Instruments and setups
- Industry
- Labels
- Music distribution outside Asia
- Charts
- Awards
- Mandopop radio stations
- See also
- References
- External links
Mandopop or mandapop refers to popular music sung in Standard Mandarin. The genre originated from the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences included Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and particularly the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s. "Mandopop" may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though mandopop predates cantopop, the English term "mandopop" was coined around 1980 after "cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time, some of which were versions of cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin.
Mandopop is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese language music within C-pop. Popular music sung in Mandarin was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. It originated in Shanghai; later, Hong Kong, Taipei and Beijing also emerged as important centers of the mandopop music industry. Among the regions and countries where mandopop is most popular are mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore.