The evolution from an elite society to a popular society means that the mainstream culture defined by the previous elite (that is, the royal family, nobles, and the rich) is defined by the public.The piano is an art that can only afford the middle class or above. It needs to learn and influence for a long time; while popular music will enter the ears as soon as it hear, and you can like it without training, and even self -learning.
After 11 years, I wrote an article outdated for the second time.The first time in 2013, I contributed to the BBC Chinese website as a reader. It was my "major discovery" at that time, so I must write it;The text of "discovered" was not very common before, and I haven't even seen it.
I have been wondering, why do other Chinese people do not realize this atmosphere, and most of them are still letting children learn piano?Maybe even if you find it, you don't want to believe it.For the first time, I heard that the piano was out of date in the UK, and my heart was uncomfortable for a long time, because the piano was as noble as God, and his status was indestructible.I used to hope that I can play a wonderful piano music, because I once thought that such a wonderful piano is an indispensable noble content in life; I also thought that it was not a liability for piano education for children.At my request (my husband can't understand such an unsuitable behavior), both children have taken piano classes, but fortunately when the older children are seven years old, despite being very difficult, I gradually transform from Chinese tiger mother to British mothers to British mothers.Therefore, the child has not suffered much high -pressure education, and has not been forced to compensate for their Chinese mothers.In 2014, I experienced another huge impact. During the interview, I found that "nobles have lost their status in the altar in the UK", and Chinese education tells me that "the nobles have the supreme position in the UK because the United Kingdom is the most class -speaking society"" ".The outdated myth status such as piano and nobles has been educated to me by Chinese.The psychological reconstruction of piano mythology spent me a few months or even a year.
These are all aged events. Later, I have become more and more major discovers in Britain. The cultural gap is a trivial matter, and the difference in the political system is significant.Become a consensus.Contemporary China seems modern, and it is just hardware equipment such as architecture, roads, and high -speed rail. Because it can be overtaken in corners; in humanistic and cultural knowledge, China is generally the level of the 19th century in the United Kingdom (common sense of democracy is similar to the 17th century level of the United Kingdom.To.Like the current China, piano was a symbol of the middle class status of Britain's rich in the 19th century, and it was one of the furniture used to show off wealth.In the huge living room, the children of the British aristocracy played piano for guests and lingered in the hearts of the Chinese.I have seen such a scene repeatedly in the circle of friends. Most of the performers are Chinese children or old Westerners.Because this is an industry that has entered the dusk in the West, and a occupation that has no or few Westerners and pursues enthusiastically.This is why Lang Lang can become industry stars, because there are no competitors in the West.I know that the most famous British played the piano is Dr. K who was popular overnight by the three Chinese little pink pinks of the London Sanfan Clas Railway Station.
I first noticed that the piano fell in the UK. It was a news from major media in 2013: In February of that year, Harrods, a well -known department store in London, closed the 118 -year -old piano sales hall.Britain can only sell 4,000 piano each year.Piano cooling is not a British characteristic, and it also occurs at the same time in the United States and Europe.According to the 2016 report of the New York Times: "As the global economy weakened, the sales of piano that the United States and Europe had declined began to plummet. According to data from the National Music Merchants Association, in 1909, the United States sold 360,000 piano each year;In 2009, this number fell to 30,000.
The most important background is related to why the piano has become the dusk industry in the West -after obtaining votes for the whole people, Western society is very successful.After World War II, the mass culture replaced the elite culture and became the mainstream.In terms of music, in the 1960s, the popular music representing Elvis and Beatles (defined by the word "vulgar" by the mainland by the mainland) replaced classical music, which became a new fashion in society.
Until 2015, I still stubbornly believed that classical music was elegant and popular music lacked education.That was because I did not know the democratic socialist movement after World War II at the time, and retained the concept brought by China. I believe that the British trade union was very powerful in the 1970s and was finally defeated by Mrs. Sachel.After 2020, I started to write a British political and cultural column, and then I correct the outdated British impression brought by China one by one. I understand that the 1960s were the most free and equal era of white people (the equality of the color of the colored races was waiting until the 21st century)Popular music can burst out like a volcano, and quickly replace classical music.
The evolution from an elite society to a popular society means that the mainstream culture defined by the former elite (that is, the royal family, nobles, and the rich) is defined by the public.The piano is an art that can only afford the middle class or above. It needs to learn and influence for a long time; while popular music will enter the ears as soon as it hear, and you can like it without training, and even self -learning.
Why did the piano fail to occupy a place in pop music?It is generally believed that the keyboard synthesizer is cheaper than the piano, richer sound effects, and easy to carry.
In 2014, the future of the Piano Piano performance in the Piano Piano was in danger: Fanny Waterman, Fanny Waterman, co -founded the Leeds International Piano Competition with others in 1961.Although the competition pushed Laz to the stage of international classical music, only two British won the highest award -Michael Rore, the first game in 1963 and Ian Hobson, the champion of 1981.There are very few British participating in the Leeds competition, from 24 people in 2000 to six in 2012.
In the past few decades, China has received the stick of the piano industry. From piano manufacturers, pianist to piano students, etc., all are the mainstays of the global piano industry.More than 70 % of the world's piano is produced in China. The most famous pianist comes from China, and the Chinese students of Xiqin are spread all over Western countries. It is a cash cow of piano students recruiting piano students in British universities.About 2015, a Chinese friend's daughter came to Britain to study a piano master, and she said that the whole class was Chinese.Why must the piano teacher be the talent of the West?Those Chinese or Chinese who teach the piano in the West have never mentioned their piano falling in the West.
The cultural gap between China and the United Kingdom is just one of the cases.Now that the piano is gradually cooling in China, it is caused by the cause of it in China and has nothing to do with the West.
The author is a bilingual writer who settled in the UK