The Promotional Power from Mainland Original Music

In 1986, Guo Feng, a famous music creator, introduced his song "Fill the World with Love," which marked the maturity of the mainland pop music. Later, two kinds of music emerged in the Chinese pop scene. One was folk-style music called "Northwestern Wind" (this kind of music consisted of musical verses from Northwest China). Another was Chinese rock, which made the pop circle find everything fresh and new.

In the late 1980s, Cui Jian (Chinese rock pioneer) released his fire album --"Rock and Roll on the Road of a New Long March" and held tour concerts by the same name, which ignited rock and roll in China. Cui's appearance was a milestone in Chinese rock and the whole Chinese pop music history.

Cui Jian conquered the heart of young people with his own works, and the most important influence he brought to mainland campus ballads was a kind of spirit.

Someone said, "Cui Jian is a scar of the 1960's, and a bleeding of the 1990s." With Cui's appearance, for the first time we heard the radical guitar sound on the campus, and the campus ballads entered a brand-new stage.

 The Influence of American and European Music

The campus ballads have been also influenced by American and European pop music, including western folk rhymes in the 1960s; songs by the "Carpenters in the 1970s; songs by Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Paul Simon in the 1980s; and music by the "Beatles" in the early 1990s

Among them, what really have influenced the campus ballad creators are probably still some classical, lyrical old songs and slow songs, like "Sound Of Silence," "Country Road," "Five Hundred Miles," and "Yesterday Once More," and so on. This is because these classical songs are easy to sing and their melodies are easy to accept. Even now, some of these songs can still be heard on the campus radio of universities.

As for the Chinese folk music, because it is a kind of deep accumulation, it is very difficult to find any direct influence by it in songs. But the impact of Chinese folk music exists and hides in the deepest level of the songs.

Author:Ivana