Campus Ballads in China
By admin on 2014-12-19

Since the 1990s, under the influence of outside cultures, there has existed a new turn of cultural transformation in the Chinese mainland.

Among them the big changes in populace art has been the most attractive. From the appearance of campus ballads in the initial stage to the beginning of the present independent movie movement, people's desire and absorption for different foreign cultures have been manifested.

This article aims to demonstrate those changes to you, and show a ladder drawing of modern China's populace art development.

The Birth of Campus Ballads in Chinese Mainland

Campus ballads originated in Taiwan in the 1970s. Since the mid 1980s, it has existed on the mainland and has gradually become a special music phenomenon that at one point was immensely popular.

In the beginning, campus ballads were prevalent at China's colleges; then following commercial successful, the ballads became fashionable in the whole society and inspired an impassioned resonance...more

Development of Campus Ballads in Mainland

Campus ballads first boarded on the mainland in the mid 1980's when, for the first time, guitarists who could both write and sing music began to appear on the campus of two of China's colleges.

As this group grew in number, it became a common spectacle for college students then to spend their weekend nights sitting on the grass and singing campus ballads together...more

Important Figures for Chinese Mainland Campus Ballads

When talking about campus ballads, there are two soul-personas we cannot leave without mentioning: Gao Xiaosong and Lao Lang (old wolf).

The former played an important role in the development of mainland campus ballads. He wrote many campus ballads and released his own created albums one after another: Campus Ballads Volume One and Campus Ballads Volume Two...more.