Cantopop

See also: cantopop

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Blend of Cantonese +‎ pop.

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Cantopop (uncountable)

  1. (music) Cantonese pop music, originating from Guangdong and Hong Kong.
    • 1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 131:
      Earlier, a venerable British guitarist in wonderful tweeds had opined as how they hadn't really expected the next Hendrix to emerge from Taiwanese Canto-pop, but then again they hadn't actually been expecting the first one, had they?
    • 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.

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