China News Service, Xiamen, July 18 (Reporter Liu Dawei) "Singing for Youth, Singing for the Future" Youth New Media "Singing" Forum on both sides of the Taiwan Strait was held in Xiamen on the 18th.
Musicians and teenagers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait gathered together, through online and offline forms, to meet friends with songs, and review the history of cross-strait popular music exchanges and integration for more than 40 years.
The forum was divided into three themes of "first sight", "communication" and "integration". Eight cross-strait musicians including Yang Zujun, representative of Taiwan’s first generation of campus folk songs, and Taiwan’s senior record planning producer Huang Haoran were invited to sort out the cross-strait from the perspective of popular music The clear course of emotional communication between compatriots and the deep friendship of expressing each other's thoughts through music have aroused the emotional resonance of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
Taiwanese musician Wang Shaofeng signed a contract with a mainland publishing company in 1996, and was the first Taiwanese singer to sign a contract in the mainland at that time.
He said that in recent years, the mainland record market has boomed. In the past, when pop music was mentioned, many listeners first thought of Hong Kong and Taiwan music. With the development of new online media, many popular songs from mainland China have now "fired" to Taiwan.
"I think cross-strait music exchanges and fusion are carried out imperceptibly." said Lai Yutong, a Taiwanese independent music singer and composer born in the 90s.
She shared with her own experience, whether she just started listening to music, listened to mainland singers songs with her parents, or came to mainland for the first time in 2015 to communicate with mainland musicians, these experiences have unknowingly affected her music. "This feeling is quite strange."
Tencent Musician General Manager and music critic Wang Lei said that with the development of the Internet, especially the rise of short video platforms, the exchanges and integration of music between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have become closer, and many musicians frequently travel between the mainland and Taiwan. The creation and content of music works are also more diverse.
At the forum, the new cross-strait youth exchange project "Future Musicians·Stars Project" was also launched simultaneously.
The project is jointly created by the National Taiwan Federation and Xiamen Broadcasting and Television Group, Xiamen Software Vocational and Technical College, Zhangzhou Television Station, and Best Media Group. It intends to provide a high-quality creative environment, rich platform resources, and professional Copyright operation and precise promotion channels have established a new mechanism for the landing of cross-strait musicians and musical works.
It is understood that this forum is a sub-forum of the 13th Straits Forum. It is co-sponsored by the All-China Taiwan Compatriots Association, Fujian Taiwan Compatriots Association, Xiamen Taiwan Compatriots Association, and Xiamen Haicang Taiwanese Investment Zone Management Committee. , Sun Yafu, Vice Chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, and Zheng Ping, Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Taiwan Affairs attended the meeting. (Finish)