C-pop
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C-pop is an abbreviation for Cheenese popular muisic (simplifeed Cheenese: 中文流行音乐; traditeeonal Cheenese: 中文流行音樂; pinyin: zhōngwén liúxíng yīnyuè; Jyutping: zung1man4 lau4hang4 jam1ngok6), a loosely defined muisical genre bi airtists oreeginatin frae mainland Cheenae, Hong Kong, an Taiwan. Ithers come frae kintras whaur the Cheenese leid is uised bi a lairge nummer o the population, sic as Singapore an Malaysie. C-pop is whiles uised as an umbrella term coverin no anerlie Cheenese pop but R&B, ballads, Cheenese rock, Cheenese hip hop an Chinese ambient muisic an aw, awtho Cheenese rock branched aff as a separate genre durin the early 1990s.
Thare are currently three main subgenres athin C-pop: Cantopop, Mandopop an Hokkien pop. The gap atween cantopop an mandopop haes been narraein in the new millennium. Hokkien pop, tho haein its ruits in Japanese enka, haes been re-integratin intae C-pop an narraein its trend o development towards Mandopop.