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Campus Folk
Campus folk (Mandarin: 校园民歌) is a Taiwanese-born strain of modern folk and folk‑rock whose core emerged on university campuses in the mid‑1970s. Student songwriters set Chinese‑language poetry and everyday reflections to acoustic guitar and light ensemble backing, favoring intimate vocals, memorable melodies, and simple, folk-derived harmonies. Created partly in reaction to the dominance of Western rock in Taiwan at the time, campus folk reclaimed themes, imagery, and prosody from the broader Chinese cultural sphere. The style flourished from the mid‑1970s through the early 1990s, producing enduring standards such as Olive Tree and The Descendants of the Dragon, and then inspired parallel waves of campus folk in mainland China during the 1990s as cross‑strait cultural exchange expanded.
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