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Article: Pop Music's Oriental Overture;Michael Jackson's on Chinese Radio-Minus 4 `Bad' Words
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- The Washington Post
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- May 27, 1988
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With a dream of reaching 2 billion ears, a team of American pop
music promoters is bringing Michael Jackson, Huey Lewis and John
Denver to a receptive but slightly confused Chinese radio audience.
Pushing the frontiers of pop, the Californians have had to
overcome Chinese red tape and relatively gentle censorship in order
to broadcast the first American pop music shows on China's public
radio network.
The reaction from Chinese young people to the hour-long,
twice-weekly programs has been positive. Still, some students
interviewed at a Beijing university said they found it "too hard to
follow the rhythms."
"The electronic music machines make a noise like someone
screaming," said a ...