Pop and Rock Music of Taiwan

During in the mid-70s a genre of renowned music recognized as Taiwanese campus traditional chant emerged in the music scene of Taiwan. This music is made up of a combination of rudiments from American traditional rock and Chinese traditional music, and it was very renowned all over the East Asia. Until the year 1987 lifting of martial law, Taiwanese pop fell into two different groups. Taiwanese pop was sung in a local language and it was renowned among older and working-class listeners; it was strongly affected by the Japanese enka. In contrary, mandarin pop, due to the assimilation policy of the authoritarian Kuomintang administration in the year 1945 to 1996 that suppressed Taiwanese dialects and culture, attracted to younger listeners. Asian celebrities like Teresa Teng came from the Taiwan and enjoys huge fame amongst the Sinophone world and outside.

With the renaissance of attraction in indigenous cultural uniqueness begins in the late 1980s, a more different and current type of Taiwanese pop established. In the year 1989, a group of artists known as Blacklist Studio released Song of Madness on Rock Records. Combining the hip hop, rock and other patterns, the album concentrated on the issues regarding the everyday new people. Creating on song of Madness achievement, the following year saw Lin Chiazng produce Marching Forward, which kick began what became recognized as New Taiwanese Song. Pop artists of the 1990s include the following such as Wu Bai, Wakin (Emil), Chang Chen-yue, Chua (Chou Huajian), Jimmy Lin and many others. Chan Hui Mei (Amei), who was popular for her technically skilled and influential choral, is commended to be the pop diva in Mandopop and pop idols such as Jolin Tsai, Show Luo and Jay Chou have now become the very popular and renowned singers of Mandopop. For the rock and ensemble music, Mayday is said to have innovated the rock music in Taiwan for the generation of youth. For new generation of pop music in Taiwan, singing reality concerts such as One Million Star and Super idol have introduced many ordinary people to popularity, such as the following William Wei, Yang Aska, Yoga Lin and many others.

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In the 90s and during in the early 2000s also saw the appearance of ensembles and musicians of more different genre, such as Deserts Chang, Sodagreen and Cheer Chen who were attained commercial achievement and introduced the modern indie period of Taiwanese pop music. Other indie ensembles include the following Chairman, Fire EX, Sugar Plum Ferry, ChthoniC, Labour Exchange band, Seraphim, Backquarter and 8mm Sky. The yearly Formoz Festival, Gung-liao Ho-hai-yan Rock Festival, and spring scream are representative gatherings around Taiwan’s indie scene. Among these Formoz Festival, it is popular for its international draw, with outside musicians such as the following Explosion in the Sky, Yo La Tengo Moby and Caribou headlining the occasion, while Spring Scream is the biggest indigenous ensemble occasion and Hohaiyan draws a combined masses of beach side party-goers and music appreciators alike.

Amber Kuo, S.H.E, Da Mouth, Rainie Yang, Fahrenheit (Taiwanese ensemble) and many others were renowned singers/ ensembles. The renowned culture of the Taiwanese tribe had also influenced Chinese-speaking populace in other areas such as Malaysia, Singapore and Mainland China.