Taiwan’s Changing Pop Music Scene
The Golden Melody Awards are one of the most prestigious musical awards in the Mandarin speaking world. However, Mandarin songs, or Mandopop, only take up a couple slots in its now increasingly diverse categories. On this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out, TaiwanPlus speaks with Meg Chen-Yu Lin, a lecturer at Cardiff University and a researcher of popular music. We discuss how the shape of Taiwan’s pop music is transforming.
