Introduction
October 17, 2008
In the Western world, originality is stressed, institutionalised by educational systems. This, in turn, results in originality being given prize place in their value system. However, due to their capitalist society, this appears not to be evident in their music industries, with cover after cover being pumped out by music producers looking to cash in on prior popularities. Nonetheless, there are still a clear majority of music connoisseurs who refuse to validate remixes as a form of tasteful music, let alone original. On the other side of the world, originality means something different. In China, where the main focus of this essay will lie, the society’s view of this concept differs, also engrained through education, leading me to question, ‘what is originality?’ Through these different connotations, I will then attempt to convey, through covers, as my definition of ‘unoriginal music’, why Chinese covers of English songs, are just as important as their originals.
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