Posted on 01/28/2018 4:39:22 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China Bans Hip-Hop And Other 'Sub-Cultures' From State Television
China's media regulator has banned the country's top hip-hop artists from appearing on television, saying the music genre represents "non-mainstream culture" that is "decadent."
A directive from the State Administration of Press, Publications, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) published as "special content" on the entertainment pages of news portal Sina.com calls on state broadcasters to avoid hiring any performers who embody "hip-hop culture" or other sub-cultures.
Performers with tattoos are also a no-no, along with anyone representing the emo-esque 'sang' culture popular with Chinese millennials, according to SAPPRFT spokesman Gao Changli.
Those who have low levels of taste, morality or who are "vulgar and obscene" should also be avoided at all costs, Gao said.
Above all, talent must show clear loyalty to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, he said.
"Never use performers who aren't psychologically and morally aligned with the party," Gao was quoted as saying.
Performers embroiled in scandals, smears or who have problematic morality and integrity must also never be booked, he said.
Political journalist Gao Yu said the move seems similar in tone to the "anti spiritual pollution" censorship campaigns of the 1980s, when rock'n'roll stars like Cui Jian were the target.
If both the hip-hop spirit and the unique expression are considered opposite to the "core values of socialism," and then come up with a "no-hip-hop in China," then it is a reduction of cultural ugly and farce, , "Clear mental pollution" mistakes.
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Yep
Ever see what goes on on MTV? The Chinese position is perfectly understanding.
Don’t know why people comment on things they know nothing about. Banning music is a ‘step in the right direction’. Something a commie would say. Hip hop in china is massively and almost exclusively anti-authoritarian and anti-communist. That’s why they want to ban it.
I agree. I blame rap and hip-hop for a lot of problems in the black community.
The Chinese have 8,000 YEARS of written history. Their civilization has seen it all. Their condemnation of the barbaric savagery inherent in hip hop is quite telling.
America is headed to 3rd World status at high speed.
Not either-or. I listen to oldies and some country. Most rappers end up in prison or dead. Yelling profanities and grabbing your crotch really isn’t a talent.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Decadent \De*ca"dent\, a.
Decaying; deteriorating.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Decadent \De*ca"dent\, n.
One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one
characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who
are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a
certain school of modern French writers.
The decadents and [ae]sthetes, and certain types of
realists. --C. L. Dana.
The business men of a great State allow their State to
be represented in Congress by "decadents". --The
Century.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
decadent
adj 1: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a
decadent life of excessive money and no sense of
responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed
intellectuals" [syn: decadent, effete]
n 1: a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or
artistically)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "decadent":
abandoned, coming apart, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted,
cracking, crumbling, debased, debauched, decaying, declining,
degenerate, degenerating, degenerative, degraded, depraved,
deteriorating, disintegrating, dissipated, dissolute, draining,
drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling,
falling off, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, immoral,
languishing, marcescent, morally polluted, on the wane, perverted,
pining, polluted, profligate, regressive, reprobate, retrograde,
retrogressive, rotten, self-indulgent, shriveling, sinking,
sliding, slipping, slumping, steeped in iniquity, subsiding,
tabetic, tainted, vice-corrupted, vitiated, waning, warped,
wasting, wilting, withering, worsening
In the comments below the posted article, it is easy to distinguish the comments of westerners from Chinese comments.
https://www.chinasmack.com/chinese-men-with-black-women-african-wives#comments
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