Why isn't there any music coming out of China? Or any kind of pop culture besides competitive gaming.
Expression is illegal there
http://pastebin.com/d5Gh3CCt
YouTube and Google are banned there it's hard to get their music heard by white culture
>>61265569
There's plenty you just aren't looking hard enough for it desu
Here's some chill Chinese math rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvAFmqVWQug
And some Chinese blackgaze
https://youtu.be/UjEMWPLUATc
>>61265795
what the fuck do you mean by "white culture" numbnuts?
>>61265569
Basically, independent mainland Chinese music exists only because the government can't be bothered to eliminate it.
Lyrics technically must be reviewed by state censors before being publicly performed, live or on the radio or television (same applies to all programming). They're not just looking for subversive stuff; all works have to maintain a minimum standard of patriotism and harmonious ideals. A song was publicly blacklisted last year for including the word fart and implying that Taiwanese girls are better than mainland girls.
Anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime is barred from television or radio.
The authorities reserve the right to close down any venue for any reason at any time.
Large music festivals exist, but they're only allowed because they draw massive corporate sponsorship and are tightly regulated.
That said, check out Chinese social media (everything else is blocked there). There's plenty of good music out there, if you can read Chinese. There's also plenty of shit music out there, which is what you'd expect from a country with such limited uncensored access to the outside world for a lot of people.
Taiwan and Hong Kong produce music, but they're relatively small markets.
>>61266191
Wow. Well typed
>>61266191
>Taiwan and Hong Kong produce music, but they're relatively small markets.
They end up following the same strict guidelines voluntarily, because anyone who is making music in Chinese would be crazy to deny themselves access to 90% of the Chinese-speaking world.
There is that Chinese Football record.
Literally American Football.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSlX7eGKqc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28GYLcMx-2M
name a better national anthem
Varuna is Chinese I think.
Chinese melodic black metal
china has best patriotic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk9NLUyYEpw&index=4&list=FLs5v8GJXVaiLsQyNAKEMP3w
Check this out
http://www.theworldunderground.com/episode-one-china
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEIa81tc1DQ
Is there any Chinese music as good as the Japs?
who are the chinese boris or fishman?
>>61268389
Japanese music is the most overrated shit and you faggots only like it because your weeb fucktards who masturbate to little anime girls and think grorious nipple can do no wrong.
>>61267976
Japanese national anthem
>>61267976
No country can beat this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAtz8xWM0w
I think they will never understand American music. One factor was the banning of ALL "western" music during the Cultural Revolution, when major cities like Shanghai had a thriving mix of styles. They'll never get that back - too much discontinuity for it to feel anything but cheap revivalism at this point. Besides ballads and the sort of bland pop that exists in every country, they probably have no affinity or incentive at this point at making any cultural dent globally.
From what I'm seeing, mainland Chinese are far more focused on grooming the next generation of classical music performers. Has more prestige, without all the messy unpredictablility of an experimental music scene. (Too much revolutionary/counter-revolutionary energy possible in anything with original enough to spark a movement - their authoritarian gov't is terrified of anything they cannot control or understand 100%.)
That or many think the styles of music that interest this board are boring, incoherent, or impossible to adapt to their cultural circumstances so they just tune it out?
Or they have a miniscule middle class relative to their population size, so even if there began a new style or synthesis of those styles, the market would be proportionately much more limited than in the U.S. or U.K. And the people that might be inclined to be creative toward those ends are simply focused on more crucial ends of making money, or keeping what precariously minor wealth their parents have accumulated over the past few decades. Being a generation's gains away from total destitution is not fun.
>>61265569
There's tons of music, but it probably gets stopped at the border. I bet some dude is spitting fire through auto-tune and a shitty trap beat in China as we speak.
>>61268410
Settle down.
>>61265913
people in english speaking countries outside china.
>>61265898
>plenty
>>61271430
You'd have to be pretty silly to think one of the largest countries on the planet has minimal musical output
They struggle with a neo-Confucian government that censors any music that would disrupt social harmony.
>>61268410
KEK
>>61269997
>From what I'm seeing, mainland Chinese are far more focused on grooming the next generation of classical music performers. Has more prestige, without all the messy unpredictablility of an experimental music scene. (Too much revolutionary/counter-revolutionary energy possible in anything with original enough to spark a movement - their authoritarian gov't is terrified of anything they cannot control or understand 100)
Like we never did that? I guess you never heard about J. Edgar Hoover trying to dig up dirt on 50s rock-and-rollers because they were communist agents sent to corrupt our youth.
Jackie Chan is still making music to my knowledge.
>>61272437
No one said we never did that. We just aren't doing it now so why don't you fuck off.
>>61272091
Pretty much this. China has always had a problem in its history with disruptive social movements and religious cults which lead to anarchy and tons of people getting killed (Chinese civil wars have been some of the bloodiest conflicts in recorded history). Mao Zedong was the most recent utopian leader the nation had and of course he made a horrible mess of everything. after he died, Deng Xiaoping revived Confucianism which is to say a benevolent autocracy to rule over the masses and ensure a harmonius, well-ordered society.
Only thing coming out of China is polluted air.
I was gonna look and see what Kill from the Heart had listed under China but then all it had was two bands from Hong Kong. That makes me pretty sad.
