Yang Xian Holds ‘Modern Chinese Folk Song’ Concert
楊弦等人舉辦「現代中國民歌」演唱會
Source: Yang Hsien
From: Taiwan WORD
Date: September 21, 2013Author: Multiple contributors
On June 6, 1975, the “Modern Folk Song Creation Concert” organized by Yang Hsien — a singer-songwriter who had just graduated from the National Taiwan University graduate school — was held at Zhongshan Hall in Taipei. This concert, regarded as the origin of the modern folk song movement, was hailed as the “first shot of the Xinhai Revolution,” and the term “Chinese modern folk songs” attracted widespread attention as a result. The concert’s most notable feature was eight folk songs that Yang Hsien had set to music from poems in poet Yu Kuang-chung’s collection Pai-yu Ku-kua (White Jade Bitter Melon). Yang Hsien performed Hsiang-chou Ssu-yun, Min Ko, Chiang-hu Shang, Hsiang-chou, Min Ko Shou, Pai Fei-fei, Yao-yao Min Ko, and Hsiao-hsiao Tien-wen. In 1975 Taiwan, Yang Hsien broke free from the Japanese-inflected pop music style that had dominated, sparking a wave of singing one’s own songs and laying the creative foundation for the next twenty years of Taiwanese popular music. He is revered as “the father of modern folk songs.”
Collection of Chinese Modern Folk Songs, released in 1975
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External Links
- Yang Hsien (Wikipedia)
- Interview with “The Father of Modern Folk Songs,” Yang Hsien (Underground Nostalgia Blues)
- Yang Hsien 1: Father of Modern Folk Songs (Memories of Hwa-hsing)
- Yang Hsien’s Folk Songs and Love (United Daily News Literary Supplement)