Baidu, China’s largest search engine, has long been criticized for allowing illegal downloads of copyrighted music. Now the company has forged a deal with three of the world’s largest music companies to legally allow...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on how tensions between Beijing and China’s ethnic minorities play out on the music scene: A growing roster of alternative performance sites and music festivals has allowed Chinese ethnic...
Read More“Red Songs”, nationalist anthems of the Maoist era, have exploded across China from Chongqing where their resurgence began. China Real Time Report provides a Red Songs 101 for the arguably fortunate uninitiated. The...
Read MoreShanghai’s Midi Music Festival, by kseedIV
Read MoreThe Ministry of Culture is cracking down on illegal music downloads through Baidu’s music sharing service and other websites, Reuters reports: Xinhua, China’s official news agency, reported on Monday that the...
Read MoreChina Daily profiles eclectic musician Wu Tong and reviews his new album, Sound of My Heart: It employs a variety of instruments from around the world, including the xun (Chinese ocarina), guqin (Chinese plucked instrument),...
Read MoreFrom marcodonnarumma.com: Golden Shield Music (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is a generative composition for eight audio channels that sits somewhere between net.art and sound art originally created for the Zeppelin 2009 exhibition at...
Read MoreHani musician in Yunnan, by Marta Stroppa.
Read MoreOn China Beat, Tim Hathaway interviews underground musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou about his recent collaboration with Canadian band The Cowboy Junkies: TH: Can you explain why you have such a distinct singing style? What reactions has...
Read MoreA new music video by pop singer Huang Zheng (黄征) is a viral hit online. Called Sell, it takes on skyrocketing housing prices in Chinese cities by depicting people at different levels of society and calculating how many years it...
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