The Classification of Hakka Pop Music

Hakka pop songs have experienced more than 20 years of ups and downs, and now they are developing very rapidly, showing a diversified style. The following is a classification of Hakka pop songs from the aspects of content, style and region. Songs related to Hakka culture

Songs related to Hakka culture were created by creators who realized that Hakka language and culture were facing crisis, represented by Tu Minheng, Lin Ziyuan, Lin Zhanyi and Gu Chongli. This kind of songs are widely circulated in Taiwan Province political circles and Hakka society. Representative songs include Hakka True Color, Hakka March, A Pole, Hakka Stage, I am a Hakka, Let Me Sing a Hakka Song, Hakka, Zuxun, Third Class Citizen, Hakka Dialect and Hakka Children. Among them, the song "True colors of Hakka" has always been praised as the national anthem of Hakka, which is widely circulated in both political circles and Hakka society. The lyrics mainly advise the Hakkas in the world, no matter how the society changes, don't forget the hardships of ancestors' reclamation, learn from their ancestors and be a kind person. The song "A Pole" is also very popular, and the lyrics skillfully use the characteristics of the pole, symbolizing the perseverance of Hakka people. Since ancient times, from Tangshan to Taiwan Province Province, this spirit of carrying poles has broken through the barriers of time and space and has been passed down from generation to generation.

Inspirational song

For example, God helps those who help themselves, be an ambitious person, a hero has his roots, his fate will be arranged by himself, dreams will be dreamed, people will struggle for breath, and at the crossroads of life, let's look at it separately. The future life is capital, the road of life and so on. They are all inspirational songs. Among them, "Heaven rewards diligence" is the representative song of teacher Lin Zhanyi. The whole song gives a positive and enterprising feeling. As the saying goes, no pains, no gains, sweaty sowers will be very happy; Be an Ambitious Man is Qiu Xiaoling's representative song. The lyrics of this song are very short, like inspirational phrases, which constantly inspire men's determination to make progress.

love song

Love songs are represented by the works of Wang Ziyou, a Hakka love song, and the representative singers are Liu and others, the big-name singers in Hakka pop music. Representative love songs include You Are Yourself, Heartache, Season of First Love, I Will, Love in India, A Flower Towel, Eighteen-year-old Mood, I have to leave you, Love Debt, Love in India, Like the Sand Boy and Love. Among them, "You are yourself" is a famous song by Miss Wei Haishan. This song is easy to learn and easy to sing, and it is still very popular today, and the demand for radio stations is also high. Heartache is a song sung by Liu. Her love songs are charming, especially the bitter feeling. Because the pronunciation of Hakka dialect itself is close to the deep throat, singing love songs has a feeling of spitting out from the heart.

Homesick songs

This kind of songs are created by the creator with nostalgia for his hometown, and the representative singer is Chen Wei. Representative homesick songs include Missing Hometown, A River in Hometown, Songs of Hometown, Looking at the Moon and Thinking of Hometown, Unforgettable Hometown, The Heart of the Prodigal Son, Rolling Love, Stranger and so on. For example, the song "Missing My Hometown" (sung by Chen Wei) mainly expresses my deep yearning for my hometown and sings the voice of wanderers, especially the Hakka people who have left their hometown to work hard in the metropolis, and their homesickness is more prominent.

Other songs

The alternative songs mentioned here are different from the mainstream songs of Hakka pop songs: different from traditional folk songs, both inherited and innovative. Alternative songs are mainly Hakka nursery rhymes, folk songs and rock songs, such as stray dogs, ninja turtles and chicken excrement fairies. I will teach you to sing folk songs, stray dogs and freshwater rivers. Dong yang ge pai

Represented by musicians such as Tu Minheng, Lv Jinshou, Lin Ziyuan, Chen Zhiming and Chen Yuan. Due to the popularity of oriental songs in Taiwan Province Province after Japanese occupation, these Hakka musicians were influenced by oriental songs and created songs with oriental style, which played a very important role in the early Hakka pop music scene. Representative singers are Liu, Gu, Gu, Gu, Peng Yuechun and so on. Representative songs include: Broken Dreams, Thousands of Waters in Qian Shan, Ode to Guanyin, Lovelorn, Loving Couples, Possessing Happiness by Quantity, A Shirt with a Collar, A Beauty Moon, Flowers in Wine, Women's Hearts, Flowers in the Lotus Mist and so on.

Rock School

Represented by the former traffic band, hospitality band and hard neck band. In the 1990s, Jiaozuo Band clashed with Mino Association for Love of Hometown, opposing the construction of a reservoir that might endanger the ecology. In this process, Jiaogong Band recorded the stubborn character of Hakkas and the difficult situation of never dying and never retreating with music, and sang the voices of workers in a rock way, which had a great influence on the working class. The faculty band was dissolved in 2003. The original lead singer Lin He continued to write Hakka pop songs, and other members formed the present reception group. Their representative songs include Chrysanthemum Night Marching, Hakka Appearing+Hakka March, Acheng Going Down to Nanyang, We Wave to Happiness, Workers' Baby Song, Fengshen, County Road 184, Sorrow Up and Down, My Little Sister, Look at My Little Sister.

Hard Neck Orchestra is the first orchestra in Taiwan Province Province to sing Hakka pop songs in Hakka dialect, which completely subverts the traditional Hakka music and makes everyone feel like singing Hakka pop songs. Representative songs include Black and White Movie, Begging by an Eighteen-year-old Girl, Fight Against Us, Hard Neck Handed Down from Generation to Generation, Satisfied, Memorizing the Cold Night of that Year, Past Events Like Smoke, etc.

village school

Yan,,, Chen, and others are among them. The coyote orchestra was founded in March 1997, with Yan as the head. Its main purpose is to promote the creation of Hakka new music and the re-arrangement of Hakka songs, hoping to inject a young and modern atmosphere into Hakka songs, which has caused quite a ripple in the mainstream music circle in recent years. The representative songs are: Ya Jiao You Singing Folk Songs, March Wind, Taipei in Early Autumn, Paper Harrier, Beautiful Voice, New Hakka New Expectation, Pingpu Learning Old Hakka, Asuge's Grocery Shop, Let's Sing a Happy Song and Selling Flowers.

Yuwei Xie, who occupies a place in the mainstream music world, doesn't like being limited by Hakka music, and he doesn't like being bound by Hakka music. There is a short story behind every work created by Yuwei Xie. His songs are mainly adapted from Hakka traditional songs. Representative songs include: Ask the Oracle, Eighteen Girls and One Flower, Start from scratch, A Friend, Peach Blossom, Folk Songs, How to Help, Moonlight, Under the Flower Tree, and Go Forward.

Chen (Ge), known as a Hakka folk poet, mainly combines folk rock and blues, and has the characteristics of wandering poetry, which has a great influence on the pop music scene in Taiwan Province Province. His songs have a broad mass base for both Hakkas and non-Hakkas. The representative songs are: You hold your head high, Yang Gesha, the blind god is coming, dream on,

Electronic dance jazz school

Represented by Liu Shaoxi. Liu Shaoxi, a famous Hakka pop musician, based on his years of behind-the-scenes creative experience, used his native language-Tai Po Hakka dialect with homophonic music elements such as jazz, Latin, funk and electronics to form jazz-style pop songs. Representative songs include Rao Ximei, Come on, I'm Crazy Jazz, Coffee House in San Fan City, Ups and Downs in Hell, Visitors from Four Sides and so on.

The West and Urban Song School

Represented by Dongdong, Li Yifan, Xu Xiaoning, Gu Chongli and Qiu Xingyi. In recent years, due to the participation of many new generation singers, Hakka pop songs have developed to the western and urban song schools with a huge lineup. Representative songs include Speak Love, True Love, What is Love, Drums in the Distance, You Dare to Remember, Hakka DJ, Direction, No Roots Flowers, Hope Today, Love is You, Five Children in the Snow and Mom. Taiwan Province Province, China

Taiwan Province Province is the most active area for the development of Hakka pop songs, and more than 95% of Hakka pop songs released worldwide come from Taiwan Province Province. This is closely related to the awakening of Hakka ethnic consciousness in Taiwan Province Province, and Hakka people began to actively strive for their political, economic and cultural status. In particular, some Hakka political institutions, such as the Hakka Committee of the Executive Yuan, have greatly promoted the creation of Hakka pop songs.

Today, the works of two musicians, Tu Minheng and Lin Ziyuan, still occupy a considerable proportion in Taiwan Province Hakka pop songs. Among them, Mr. Tu Minheng wrote more than 2,000 Hakka pop songs. As for singers, Hakka pop singers who have released more than ten solo albums include Liu, Lin Zhanyi, Gu and Wen Ruiyuan.

Indonesia

There are about three or four million Hakkas in Indonesia. Due to the long-term Chinese exclusion policy of the Indonesian government, the Chinese level of Indonesian Chinese, including Hakkas, is not high. Indonesian Hakka pop songs are mainly cover works, for example, taking Chinese pop songs and rewriting the lyrics in Hakka dialect to express emotions. The amount of creation is relatively large, but the composition is less original.

Malaysia

There are many Hakkas in Malaysia, but there are not many Hakka pop songs. As far as we know, most of Malaysian Hakka pop songs are the works of Qiu Qingyun, Xie Lingling, Zhang Shaolin and Downey. Among them, Qiu Qingyun, known as the king of Hakka songs, has made the greatest achievements, and his songs have a certain influence in the global Chinese record market. So far, Qiu Qingyun has published more than ten albums of Hakka pop songs.

continent

Although more than 90% of Hakkas are in mainland China, the popular songs of Hakkas in mainland China have not developed and are still in their infancy. Professor Yan of Hakka customs network analyzed this. He believes that there are three reasons: first, the national language and culture overwhelm local dialects, which is unified and lacks a free and pluralistic ideological basis; Second, the lack of Hakka folk culture talents; Third, traditional culture lacks stimulation and has no sense of innovation in form and content.

Fortunately, it has developed in recent years: Moonlight, a popular Hakka song album, was sung by Xu Qiuju, the queen of Hakka folk songs in Meizhou. This album * * * contains 10 songs, but due to poor publicity, the sales volume is not ideal, and it has not caused much impact. There is also a headmaster peace county who was once a smash hit on the Internet. He has covered some famous Hakka songs and created some of his own works. He is cooperating with Meizhou Feifan Film and Television Company to publish the album of Hakka pop songs he sang, expecting him to create more Hakka pop songs and drive the creation trend of Hakka pop songs in Chinese mainland.

There are Lin Qiu in Shaoguan, Kiamliung Liu and Fibin Tsen in Meizhou, Pan Haibing and Li Zepei in Huizhou, Slitungmuk in Maoming and Lu Xiao Juan in Longyan. They all wrote or sang many Hakka pop songs.