writes: Ryukyu
"'Cultural self-confidence' is a false proposition. First of all, you must have 'cultural consciousness'. If you don't admit yourself, understand yourself, accept yourself, and just want to live the lifestyle of those foreigners on TV, you will become Becoming 'cultural arrogance'.
In the Wu Bai interview published by Jiesheng in August, Wu Bai's sharp views on "cultural self-consciousness" aroused many people's discussion (see "
Wu Tiao Ren's "Summer of the Band"). Live
Wutiaoren were already a quite mature and rich band before they went on the show, but what made them trending this time was their perverse behavior, funny talking and plastic Mandarin, especially the clip where the guests joked about their accent, which made many southerners People are reminded of the fear of being dominated by Spring Festival Gala sketches for many years. In the 1990s, superstars such as Wu Bai, Teresa Teng, Beyond, Leslie Cheung, etc. brought Hokkien and Cantonese into the mainstream, making a certain dialect truly popular. Nowadays, it is increasingly difficult for people with these more distinctive dialects to become popular on a large scale solely because of their music.
Compared with Mandarin, which is clearly regulated and regulated, dialects have more randomness in the regional environment and culture. The character and tradition grown under the conditions are more suitable to be integrated with local operas and folk music. The dialect is also more harmonious with Blues, one of the fathers of modern music, or the reggaeton of South America. , or polyrhythmic Africa. This is like letting modern music originate from China again. A bit of tradition, a bit of foreign inspiration, and the musician's personal expression make each dialect musician appear so unique. .
The Afrobeat (African beat) style introduced by Wu Bai’s 2016 Hokkien album "Nail Flower", the rhythm contains "oceanic" and "wild" and is very consistent with Hokkien songs.
In the mainstream narrative, non-Mandarin Chinese Once a singing band is inserted into the object framework of a dialect band, the audience will inevitably judge it with a local perspective. When a band is broadly defined by the language it sings rather than the music itself, this is a problem for musicians who strive to develop musical forms. It is undoubtedly a pity.
The uniqueness of dialect music is constantly being explored by various platforms, such as the dialect music variety show "1.3 Billion Decibel", Pollux label dedicated to world music, and "Dialect" launched by Tencent musicians. "Folk Song" selection plan and so on, hoping to integrate regional dialect elements into music creation and evoke urban humanistic memories.
What other dialect bands do we have? In addition to different languages, why do they deserve more love?
Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai
Shanghai Rooftop Circus
Top Floor Circus
North Secondhand, South Top Horse, these two bands are representatives of China's two strong cultures, one south and one north. Although their languages are different, the crazy energy of the performance and the "sexy" lyrics "It's exactly the same as above. If second-hand rose is a rock duo, top horse is a punk burlesque.
The top horse does not smell of "earth and country", but the laughter and curses of ordinary people living in Shanghai, a metropolis, which in turn reflects and satirizes the situation encountered in the development of Chinese cities. ’s bohemian and weird songs have subverted many people’s impression of the Shanghainese dialect as sweet and sweet. Whether it is the popular song "Hao Big Chicken Steak" or the warm "Shanghai Childhood", they have always been a grassroots philosophy that embraces the tastes of the lowest-level citizens. Home.
Ningbo Huanchao
Huanchao
"Huanchao" means "damp" in Ningbo dialect. The name carries a strong smell of damp water. There is no ambitious cultural revenge or the important task of reviving traditional folk arts. He is jokingly called "Ningbo MLA" by music fans. It has a fresh folk foundation and a vague and plain singing voice. It tells the story of ordinary people's lives, and because of the barriers and distances in dialects, it creates a vague sense of beauty. "I am drunk with old wine day by day, long live the emperor" , always showing a sense of emptiness and laziness.
Wenzhou Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Chorus
A collection of a cappella sketches in Wenzhou dialect "Ze Ya Ji"
Rainbow Chorus is performing the most popular divine songs on the Internet while singing the most difficult to understand Wenzhou dialect. They are two completely opposites. The coexistence of temperaments in one person makes it impossible not to marvel at the magic of Jin Chengzhi .
"Ze Ya Ji" and "Travel Notes of Baima Village" use Wenzhou dialect to construct gentle and fantastic paradises. It is precisely because Wenzhou dialect is as difficult to understand as a foreign language, but it also has some Wu dialect and Hokkien dialect. The gentle tone creates a vague sense of alienation, making the world in the song seem both familiar and unfamiliar.
Beijing
Nancheng Second Brother
Nancheng Second Brother
The name sounds very like the charm of the Four-Nine Cities. The first cross talk rock style, wearing a long gown, playing guitar, and singing rock and roll with a folding fan. Others in the audience gave pogo metal gifts, and they were booed and applauded in the audience. Rather than being a rock band, it's more like an improved and modern version of a new crosstalk rap group.
子曰
子曰band
has now been renamed as 子曰秋野. It integrates Chinese folk arts, local opera, allegro and other folk arts forms, and the authentic Beijing accent and Beijing rhyme also include Tianjin dialect from time to time.
Since 1996, they have only released two albums and do not perform often. Due to the spicy themes of , many songs are hard to find on the Internet platform . For many young music fans, they are more like a distant and vague icon.
Central Plains
In terms of dialect rock, the Central Plains region is indeed relatively weak. It may also be too similar to Mandarin and lose the fun of dialect creation.
Hebei Slap Band
Slap Band
Slap is not entirely sung in Hebei dialect. We have to get a glimpse of it from slang. Folk bands mostly borrow and adapt traditional local folk arts in music, but they don't stick to styles. Funk, rap, and even retro disco can be used as their cover. At its core, is a neatly contrasted, carefully arranged, and cautionary traditional text narrative structure . Use the most down-to-earth grassroots language to create the sharpest contemporary fable.
Henan
Simple Band, Summer Tudonghe Band
Simple Band
Summer Tudonghe Band
Henan's dialect bands naturally combine with opera. Although Simple Band and Summer Tudonghe Band are not famous in the country, they are in Henan There is a certain audience in the music fan circle. Integrating Henan Opera, Yue Diao, and Daping Diao , young local musicians continue to explore the cultural heritage of their homeland.
Northeast Secondhand Rose
Secondhand Rose
As the strange hands that have reached out to Beijing rock music in the millennium, Secondhand Rose has occupied the throne of dialect rock for 20 years with its unique and enchanting stage vision, and the duo of Suona and Northeastern perform rock with "Chinese characteristics". Perhaps because of the inclusiveness and wide audience of Northeastern dialect, the themes of Second-hand Rose songs are not limited to stories that happened on the black earth. They are ridiculing and elegant. In addition to the golden lines such as "Brother, what's the point of playing rock and roll?" in "Tricks", "I am a carefree fairy in the sky, and I will not give a thing to the world" in " Xian'er " is more free and easy. The coexisting temperament of madness.
lead singer Diplodocus In recent years, due to variety shows and "middle-aged and elderly beauty bloggers" frequently appearing in the industry, the popularity of Secondhand Rose is not considered a niche even among the mainstream people, but how much the real audience has increased, I am afraid it will is another algorithm.
Northwest
The vast land of the Northwest can be said to be a fertile ground for folk songs. The mountains and vertical valleys have nurtured so many unruly souls. For many people who have never been to that land, the earliest impression of the Northwest may come from their songs.
Yinchuan SuyangBand
Suyang Band
Suyang, known as the "King of Rock Singers in the Northwest", is known for his songs, "The Current Flow of the Yellow River" project art exhibition, "Guan Feng Bi Ma Wen", " Hundred Birds" Movie soundtracks such as "Chaofeng "...all aspects have played an important role in the protection and promotion of northwest folk culture in recent years.
Su Yang has been studying and visiting old folk song artists in every corner of the northwest for many years, grafting folk song forms such as Qin Opera and Hua'er with rock music. While retaining Ningxia dialect and traditional instrumental music, introduces modern elements such as electronic music to open up the world. Music map, thinking about the culture and future of people and land . Compared with ordinary folk song covers, Su Yang's creation has become a work of art with great appreciation and preservation value in the field of Chinese contemporary music.
Lanzhou
Wild Child , Zhang Gezhen
Wild Child
"Le Xia 2" The Wild Child's a cappella song " The Ballad of the Yellow River " touched countless people. They have the typical look of northwest people, dull and tough. . Whether you are a homesick northwester or a person like Zhou Xun who comes from a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, you will be struck by the simple and solid Yellow River water complex.
As an elegy in the folk song era, Wild Child and Zhang Weiwei, who has now left the band, all use their care for their homeland and life, making northwest folk songs both uniquely regional and inclusive. Their vitality is like stubborn and solid grass, firmly holding on to the loess of their hometown wherever they go.
Zhang Gayi
Northwestern musicians as early as the 1990s, the songs of brothers Zhao Muyang and Zhao Siran had a pathos that cannot be transformed by hard liquor, and the taste has become more and more choking as they are passed down from generation to generation. But Zhang Gezang is a jar of sweet rice wine, a sanxian, and a haystack. He can sing a song on the spur of the moment with just a trifling matter, completely reviving the leisurely and open-minded life in the northwest countryside. . Folk ditties such as Shehuo ditties and Tongwei ditties also provide rich materials for his creative forms of dialect music combined with people's current lives.
Xi'an
Heisa band , Xuan band, Wang Jianfang and the band, Ma Fei , Che Nianpo band
Heisa band
Xuan band
Wang Jianfang and the band
Ma Fei
Hei Sa Band, Xuan Band, Wang Jianfang Together with the band, Ma Fei is known as the " magic weapon band of the four major Shaanxi dialects" . Among them, Wang Jianfang can be regarded as an older generation of musicians. His music style has both the excitement of Qin Opera and the far-sightedness of Xintianyou. Basically, he is still in the style of old rock music from the 1980s. Heisa, Ma Fei, and Xuan bands belong to the younger generation. Hip-Hop, pop, urban folk songs, northwest folk songs, and national instruments are no longer necessary options. "Shaanxi Food", "Back to Xi'an", "Xi'an Love Story" ", most of their songs sing about the urban changes and urban life in Xi'an, and describe the stories around the young people in Xi'an.
Chehupo Band
Chehupo Band is a band that combines elements of rock, Qin opera, northern Shaanxi folk songs, northern Shaanxi rap and shadow puppetry. Compared with pure music performances, Chehupo presents and integrates traditional folk arts and visual arts. The main creator Xu Jun's identity in the band is not called the lead singer, but the main shout. once went alone to collect local folk songs in northern Shaanxi. He traveled upstream from the mouth of the Yellow River to the source of the Yellow River, visited intangible cultural heritage inheritors along the Yellow River basin, and visited more than a dozen old folk artists and shadow puppet families.
Southwest
Many dialect musicians in the northwest come from blues and metal backgrounds. In the southwest, ethnic music has formed an alliance with reggae, funk, and Ska, especially in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Sichuan, which are major ethnic minority provinces.
Yunnan
Shanren, kawa, three stamping feet
Shanren band
is rooted in the mountains and rivers of Yunnan, based on the leisurely and leisurely plateau life, simple and restrained, spiritual and light. The Shanren Band combined the life memories of southwest towns with Yunnan country tunes, used a large number of national musical instruments to transform and re-create Yunnan folk songs, and completed a realistic work with Yunnan characteristics.
Kawa
三 Stamping
In comparison, Kawa and San Stomping have gone from the county town into the depths of the Yunnan jungle. The lyrics have taken a back seat and resonate more with the audience in the musicality of reggae and Dub.. In addition to the Yunnan dialect, ethnic minority languages such as the Wa, Nu, Buyi, and Lisu are also often used, not to express specific meanings, but to blend world music with a sense of tribalism and modernity.
Guangxi
Caravan
Caravan band
"Caravan" was the most important means of material circulation and information dissemination in the southwest in ancient times, and the music of the caravan band was also dusty and bandit. Ocarina, Hulusi, Bawu, Lusheng and other national musical instruments and the Liuzhou dialect, coupled with the high-pitched and tough male voice, have become the unique auditory signature of the caravan band.
Guizhou
Shennam, Yao Shisan
Shennam
Shennam is a Liang ethnic rock band founded in Guizhou. It is also the first domestic band with Wu Nuo culture as its core element. Compared with other chill-style Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan plateau ethnic bands, their performance is more unpredictable and enjoyable to watch.
尧十三
尧十三 There are not many songs in the Guizhou dialect. There are only two songs in total, "The Widow King's Second Lady" and " The Blind Man ", but they show the traditional essence of another Guizhou " cry song " Dripping and exquisite. The sad lyrics and the long-sounding cry make the listener cry and the listener feel sad.
Sichuan
Yishi
Yishi
uses Yibin dialect to sing the rock song "Yi Shi", taking a humorous and domineering route. It is difficult to define their music style. In addition to Yibin dialect , there are also Sichuan folk arts. Interviews with masters, pop songs, revolutionary songs, local ditties, chats on the streets... There are the parody "Yibin Night Market Golden Songs" and the serious "Liu Bei Chi", which are all vivid in their music. of the human world.
Chongqing
Incubation Band
Incubation Band
Before "Leshi Fog City" became popular all over the country, Incubation Band had been exploring the road of Chongqing dialect rap for many years. The first-generation drummer was Lao Gui, the founder of Nut Livehouse. They are also one of the first independent bands to start in Chongqing. Founded in 1998, it has gone through the punk and grunge stages, transformed into a heavy rap metal music style, and entered a period of rapid research and creation of slang rap. In 2004, the first purely Chongqing-dialect rap album "In Our Own Language" was released, and later "Running on the Street" are classics that the Yuyu band traces back to its roots.
Going all the way south, we will enter Fujian, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where the language is the most complicated and difficult to understand. Hokkien, Hakka, Chaoshan, Hokkien, Cantonese... dialect bands are quite rich in appearance, and already have a very mature and complete growth system and context map. We are familiar with Wu Tiao Ren, Jiao Gong Band, Wu Bai & China Blue, Lychee King, etc. The future will be sorted out slowly in the next article.
Music critic Yang Bo wrote on his blog ten years ago: "Ethnic music is the same as dialect music. They are tools to promote styles and a side drum to express opinions, but they are not the root and purpose, nor are they leading to chaos. In addition to the band form, there are also many folk songs, raps, underground metal, etc. created in dialects, which cannot be listed one by one.Breaking away from the mainstream perspective, starting with language but not just language, we see more bizarre life and richer possibilities for musical expression in dialect music.
Source of the article: Street Voice Events "Dialect Bands, Different Than Just Language (Part 1)"
http://dashi.streetvoice.cn/article/20201029/001/
