Talk:C-pop

Unsourced and biased statements

"Recent modern Chinese pop acts often rely heavily on western pop music influences, such that Chinese pop is often described as a 'copycat' version of western pop." - This statement is not reliable at all without a source so I had it removed. Chorus chord patterns from Chinese pop songs generally follow a similar chord pattern, unlike English pop songs which do not have a similar chord pattern during the chorus. --218.186.9.3 04:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Only mandopop and cantopop?

I propose we change the text to "two major subcategories". There is c-pop in other dialects, too. I understand that most of Taiwanese pop is not C-pop but that does not mean there are not others. For example, 伍家辉 is Malaysian and sings Hokkien songs, which I classify as C-pop. Also, Taiwanese group 五月天 has Taiwanese songs that are nothing like enka but more like C-pop. Kltiger (talk) 17:59, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Los angeles

Based on what are we saying LA is a hub for c-pop (as of 2008)? Benjwong (talk) 16:25, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

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Print references

For future use:

• Baranovitch, Nimrod (2003). China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity, Gender, and Politics, 1978 – 1997. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-23450-2.
• Jones, Andrew F. (1992). Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music. Cornell East Asia Series. Vol. 57. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-939657-57-0.
• Jones, Andrew F. (2001). Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2694-9.

Arsonal (talk) 23:32, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Discarding of proper nouns

Is this a trend in Wikipedia? Mainland China --> mainland China, Simplified Chinese --> simplified Chinese, and now cantopop and mandopop. How about saying china and taiwan next time? Sounds cool doesn't it? 116.14.163.124 (talk) 08:35, 9 May 2010 (UTC)