Tag: Folk music
“Moonlight”: An adaptation of traditional ballads and pop music songs in five languages, originating in different times and spaces
“Moonlight” was originally a traditional children’s song spread in Fujian and Guangdong, including Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Teochew, Fuzhou, etc., what languages and regional versions of “Moonlight” have you heard? Do you know what is the background and historical origin of the creation of different local versions? And many modern singers have also adapted this new […]
“Heaven Falls into the Water”: an interweaving of traditional Hakka folk songs and adapted pop music songs
“Falling into the Water” was originally a Hakka mountain song that was widely spread and familiar in Taiwan, and even Taiwanese people who are not Hakka may have heard this song 1 . In recent years, there have been many cover versions on YouTube, combining many elements of modern pop music, and some of them […]
