In the time when Wong Jum-sum grew up, Cantonese pop music was but one of many kinds of music broadcast on radio. In a society where over 80% of the population spoke Cantonese, that came as a major surprise. Wong has a simple explanation for this. Cantonese pop grew out of traditional Cantonese music, but it could not build on the popularity of the latter in the face of severe competition. Compared to Western or Mandarin pop, it lagged behind in the areas of composition, lyrics, singing, accompaniment, recording, distribution, and marketing. Its competitors had a head start in talents, organization, and technology that took Cantonese pop more than a decade to come close.
Not everyone agrees with Wong’s diagnosis. Other scholars argue Canto pop, even in such early days, had a unique vibrancy that came from a healthy disregard of the boundaries among different traditions and genres, be they local or foreign. Early Canto pop laid a solid foundation for modern Canto pop, which went on to dominate not only Hong Kong but most Chinese communities around the world.
The story of Cantonese pop awaits careful re-writing.
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哥仔靚咯 引動我思潮
我含情帶笑
把眼角做介紹
還望哥你把我來瞧
哥仔靚 靚得妙
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都要讓你擔摽
風雅別饒
搵通世界咁靚嘅男人
確係少
我為你病染單思愛戀
險送命一條
思君心更焦
三魂都被你勾了咯
嗰種痴心執筆亦難描
一見左 見左你
就情醉心動搖
願作同林鳥
長慰我寂寥
我要哥仔你把我願消
不忍我身葬於愛河潮
我認你係我心肝你都未曉
叫一句我地有情哥仔
尋歡樂最緊要咯
我唱共彈琴 你吹蕭
今生永久兩家快樂逍遙
真係其樂不少
恩義情同鴛鳥
只要多歡笑
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