| Taiwanese campus folk song | |
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| Cultural origins | 1970s, Taiwan |
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Taiwan campus folk song,campus folk song, orcampus folk rock (Chinese:校園民歌) is a genre ofTaiwanese music with its roots as student songs in the campuses ofTaiwanese universities during the 1970s. The genre was highly popular from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, with its focus on themes from theChinese cultural sphere in reaction to the prevalence of Westernrock music inTaiwan as well as being edged out by thePeople's Republic of China from theUnited Nations and from the world political stage.[1] This genre of music became very popular inmainland China during the 1990s with the increased cultural exchanges between Taiwan and the mainland during this period.[2]
Campus folk rock was created by university age youth wishing to assert their own distinct cultural identities and "Sing our own songs."(Chinese:唱自己的歌) in Chinese, taking the aspirations from theAmerican folk music revival. The movement towards and popularization of this music is considered to be a societal reaction towards Taiwan's expulsion fromUnited Nations (UN) in 1971 in theUnited Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, with international admission of the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate representative of China in the UN.[1] The songs were composed through fusing instrumental and melodic elements from Americanfolk rock, along with the expression and themes fromChinese folk music, both of which were familiar to the youth of the time.[3] Songs from the genre are characterized as having a forward-looking, optimistic, simple, and youthful feel, withacoustic guitar andpiano as some of its most commonly used accompanying instruments.[3]
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