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Chinese Music – It's Not Dead, It's Misunderstood… (opens in new tab)

Project Kino (3/23/26) From Alex Baumans: Around the 6:00 (out of 18:10) mark there starts a discussion about how the tonal structure of Chinese influences songwriting and how that makes really catchy tunes difficult. One of the workarounds is of course switch to English. This presentation is full of excellent insights and analysis, comparing Cantonese, Japanese, […]

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