Rock in China is a website dedicated to the documenting and archiving of contemporary
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
music, ranging from
rock
Rock most often refers to:
* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
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music to punk, metal, electro, jazz and hiphop. It was founded in 2004, and in 2006 became a
wiki
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. The website currently runs on
MediaWiki
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and
Semantic MediaWiki
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.
Timeline of Rock in China
In April 2004, Rock in China started as subsection named Metal in China at the Painkiller Heavy Music Magazine.
In December 2006, Rock in China opened a wiki.
February 2007: RiC collaborated with Last.fm and started its own non-commercial promotion label, getting bands such as Hang on the Box, Tookoo, No Name, Blood Funk and The Fuck'ndrolls to work with them.
September 2007: The founders of RiC were invited to the China Calling in Berlin 2007 and the German Popkomm 2007.
April 2008: Rock in China became a media partner of the German Esplanade.
October 2008: Rock in China became a media partner of the 20th anniversary of the
Goethe-Institut.
November 2008: Rock in China started a cooperation with the Institute of Sinology at the
University of Heidelberg
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.
Since 2008, Rock in China has been an official partner of the
Midi Music Festival
The Midi Music Festival, sometimes also called Midi Modern Music Festival or simply Midi Festival () is among China's largest rock music festivals and is hosted by the Beijing Midi School of Music. Since its inauguration in 1997 it has been held ...
, China's largest rock music festival, and has helped to prepare their English-language websites.
In November 2012, Rock in China rolled out Semantic Mediawiki and connected their database to the
Open Linked Data Cloud featuring over 50000 data triplets. The same month the page also extended their service to Music-China.org and included non-rock music specific content, including
Chinese Opera, classical music of China and
Cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...
/
Mandopop
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkie ...
.
In March 2013, Music-China.org started an academic online project with the aim to map the complete history of Chinese music.
[As per their blog entry: http://rockinchina.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/project-chinese-music-history/]
Reception
* Rock in China was featured twice in publications of the Insider's Guide to Beijing series as one of the best websites for foreigners to get infos on Chinese rock. (publications: 2006 and 2007)
* China Music Radar: "Rock in China is by far the most comprehensive English language resource on Chinese contemporary music."
link* Beijing Review: "... the most comprehensive Web portal there is on Chinese rock"
* Smart Shanghai: "... they also provide a great way to kill a few hours on the internet with their wiki articles."
References
External links
* {{official website, http://wiki.rockinchina.com and its sister pag
Music-China.org
Chinese music websites
Internet properties established in 2004
MediaWiki websites
Chinese online encyclopedias
Semantic wikis