Cantopop
nounUK /ˈkæn.təʊˌpɒp/ · US /ˈkæn.toʊˌpɑp/
Etymology Blend of Cantonese + pop.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Cantonese pop music, originating from Guangdong and Hong Kong.
- 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?1996, William Gibson, Idoru (Bridge trilogy; book 2), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 131:
- Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:
- Synonyms
- Canto