Is world music borderless?

Traditional Chinese music gives people the impression of being more introverted, more subtle in its expression of feelings, and not as emotionally cathartic as that found in Western music. This is due to the traditional Chinese culture and the character of the Chinese people for a long time. Of course, oriental music and western music are two completely different systems, and it is impossible to compare their advantages and disadvantages. As a matter of fact, Chinese traditional music is profound and profound, and as a treasure of Chinese culture, it should be inherited from generation to generation. However, due to the times, at the present time, traditional Chinese music is not easily accepted by most people in China and the world. Western music has been developing, and our folk music needs to develop as well. It is necessary to learn from the strengths of western music. It is also necessary to adopt a form that is acceptable to the public and does not fall into the cliché, so that our folk music can penetrate into the hearts of the people, which is much better than letting folk music become something that is "studied" by a few people.

Here I think of the popular "Twelve Girls". To be sure, it's visually well packaged and pleasant to look at, but musically it seems to be lacking a lot. I've heard some of their tunes, but not once. A few of the tunes are basically adapted melodies of folk music with R&B, rock or dance rhythms, and even parodies, which feels like folk music has been hardened with a shell of Western music, which is a bit incongruous, and the arrangements of the tunes are very noisy, kitschy, and with a too heavy commercial flavor. Our folk music reform should not be like this.

Chinese folk music still needs to go global, and Song Zuying is a good example. She has brought Chinese folk music to the Golden Hall in Vienna, the Sydney Opera House, the Kennedy Center for Music, and sung in Europe, Australia and America, letting the people of the world know about Chinese folk music, and teaching Westerners how to play authentic Chinese music on Western instruments.

So music has no borders. The more ethnic it is, the more global it is.