Sunday, March 30, 2014 2:00 PM
Taiwan Academy
1 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017
Speaker: Dr. Hsing-Lih Chou
“Campus Folk Song” is revolutionary music in a new style combining folk and country melodies. It originated in Taiwan and has been welcomed into the fabric of young student society all over the world for the past three decades. Since the 1960’s Taiwan has experienced all kinds of shocking western influences, not the least of which has been actual preference in music. American songs are stereotyped as modern symbols and are widespread throughout the Taiwanese market. Whether from jazz, country, rock and roll, soul, disco, rap, or hip- hop, any one of them can represent a specific era, which fashionably attracts the youth into that particular age. Under this atmosphere Campus Folk Song came into being in Taiwan in the 1970’s. It immediately became extremely popular but reached its apex in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Looking into the developing modernization in Taiwan, Campus Folk Songs can be recognized as the most successful new cultural
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