Yellow Music

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Yellow Music (Chinese: 黃色音樂, Huang2 Se4 Yin1 Yue4, wong sik jam ngok) or (Chinese: 黃歌, Huang2 Ge1, 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.

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The name came about since the color yellow in China have been associated with pornography and sex. 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.

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The term also have a racial implication as c-pop founder Li Jinhui was also trying to build a genre with Chinese musicians. Yellow skin has generally been associated with Asians.

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  1. ^ Jones. Andrew F. [2001] (2001). Yellow Music - CL: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press. ISBN 0822326949