Cantopop
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See also: cantopop
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒp
Noun[edit]
Cantopop (uncountable)
- (uncountable, music) Cantonese popular music, originating from Guangdong (Canton) and Hong Kong.
- 1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 131:
- Earlier, a venerable British guitarist in wonderful tweeds had opined as how they hadn't really expected the next Hendrix to emerge from Taiwanese Canto-pop, but then again they hadn't actually been expecting the first one, had they?
- 2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 14:
- Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.
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Cantonese pop music
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