Xi'an guyue

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Yang Yinliu (ed.): Zhongguo yinyue cidian (Dictionary of Chinese Music). Beijing 1984.
Cheng Yu: Xi’an Guyue - Xi’an Old Music in New China. “Living fossil” or “flowing river” (Dissertation) Department of Music. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2005.

Xinyao

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The local xinyao movement started in the early 1980s by students from secondary schools, junior colleges and polytechnics. They were influenced primarily by minyao (民謠), a Taiwanese folk songs movement in the 1970s, school campus songs (校園民歌) from Taiwan. The Taiwanese folk genre sought an authentic native Taiwan identity exemplified by songs such as “Grandma’s Penghu Bay” (外婆的澎湖灣). The rise in popularity of the campus folk song especially among the Chinese students and schools came at a time of major education reforms led by Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Goh Keng Swee which sought to streamline and align Chinese education into the national syllabus. Xinyao groups had their first exposure on radio and television in April 1982, on the half-hour Chinese radio programme, Our Song Writers, in April 1982. In September the same year, Nanyang Technological University’s Chinese-language newspaper, Nanyang Business Daily, organised a seminar titled The Songs We Sing (我們唱著歌). The seminar revolved around discussing the trend of xinyao’s emergence.

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Xi'an guyue

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Xinyao

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