Mandopop
Mandopop (simplified Chinese: 华语流行音乐; traditional Chinese: 華語流行音樂; pinyin: Huáyǔ liúxíng yīnyuè) is a colloquial abbreviation for "Mandarin popular music." It is a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Mandopop was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. As the name implies, Mandopop is sung in Mandarin Chinese.
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Cultural origins | 1920s–1940s, Shanghai, Republic of China |
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Traditional Chinese | 華語流行音樂 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 华语流行音乐 | ||||||||||
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