- Yellow Music
Yellow Music (Chinese: 黃色音樂, Huang2 Se4 Yin1 Yue4, wong sik jam ngok) or (Chinese: 黃歌, Huang2 Ge1, wong go) was a label used to describe early generations of
Chinese popular music inShanghai ,China during the 1920s to 1940s as a reference topornography .Origin
The name came about since the color
yellow in China have been associated withpornography andsex .Communist Party of China saw pop music as sexually indecent and labeled theC-pop genre as suchJones. Andrew F. [2001] (2001). Yellow Music - CL: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press. ISBN 0822326949] . The term was used continually up to theCultural Revolution .Alternate meanings
The term also has a racial implication as c-pop founder
Li Jinhui was also trying to build a genre with Chinese musicians. Yellow skin has generally been associated with Asians.ee also
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c-pop
*mandopop
*cantopop References
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