Yellow Music
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Yellow Music (Chinese: 黄色音乐 （黃色音樂） Mandarin: Huáng Sè Yīn Yuè Cantonese: wong sik jam ngok) or (Chinese: 黃歌 （黃歌）Mandarin: Huáng Gē cantonese: wong go) was a label used to describe early generations of Chinese popular music in Shanghai, China during the 1920s to 1940s as a reference to pornography.
Origin
The name came about since the color yellow in China have been associated with pornography and sex. The Communist Party of China saw pop music as sexually indecent and labeled the C-pop genre as such.[1] The term was used continually up to the Cultural Revolution.
See also
References
- ↑ Jones. Andrew F. [2001] (2001). Yellow Music – CL: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-2694-9
