C-pop
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
C- + pop, A modification of J-pop, with C standing for Chinese.
Noun edit
C-pop (uncountable)
- (music) Chinese pop music influenced by western genres. It consists of two subgenres, Cantopop and Mandopop, though the gap between them has been narrowing.
- 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.
Translations edit
Chinese pop music
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Mandopop — see Mandopop
Cantopop — see Cantopop