Yellow Music

Yellow Music is a genre of popular music. The term has been used in China and Vietnam to describe types of music that have separate origins.

China

Yellow Music (simplified Chinese: 黄色音乐; traditional Chinese: 黃色音樂; pinyin: huángsè yīnyuè) or Yellow Songs (simplified Chinese: 黄色歌曲; traditional Chinese: 黃色歌曲; pinyin: huángsè gēqǔ) was a label used to describe early generations of Chinese popular music in Shanghai, China during the 1920s to 1940s; the color yellow is associated with eroticism and sex in the country, since 黄, huáng, the Mandarin character for "yellow", also means "erotic". 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. By the early 1980s, however, Yellow Music could be performed again.

Vietnam

Yellow Music (Nhạc vàng) refers to music produced in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, named in opposition to "Red Music" (Nhạc đỏ) endorsed by the Communist government of North Vietnam during the era of the Vietnam War. The genre contained topics and characteristics considered decadent and was banned in 1975, with those caught listening to it punished, and their music confiscated. Most Yellow Music has been associated with the bolero genre. The ban on Yellow Music was lightened in 1986, but by then the music industry had ceased to exist.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Duy, Dinh (12 October 2016). "The Revival of Boléro in Vietnam". The Diplomat. The Diplomat. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
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