Prerequisites for the development of modern Chinese pop music

The aim of the study is to analyze the path of Chinese pop music, the prerequisites for its development at the present stage as a historical path of national musical art, on one hand, and as a path of necessary organic borrowing from the achievements of Western culture, on the other. Thus, the main content of the research includes important historical facts, achievements of Chinese musical art, along with the main trends of cross-cultural influence – how they ultimately affect the phenomena of pop music, particularly in relation to two figures – more or less "balancing" in their creativity the two aforementioned principles. The subject of the study is the characteristics of Chinese pop music, determined by specific historical trends – which seems quite relevant in an era of significant cultural dialogue and simultaneously the necessity of ecological culture. The methodology of the research is connected with the broadest approach to culture as a historically evolving system, logically interacting with other cultural systems, including for the necessary filling of gaps. Such a system gives rise to certain phenomena of art that can and should be studied through the creative and biographical characteristics of individuals. The scientific novelty of the work is due both to the in-depth, detailed analysis of manifestations of national and cross-cultural beginnings in Chinese pop art and to the reference to significant personalities. The results obtained allow for the conclusion that pop music as a positive genre, born out of the modern type of society, must in one way or another fully reflect national characteristics, combining them with other elements within the framework of a significant cultural dialogue at the current stage – in necessary proportions. For modernizing non-European countries, and especially for China with its powerful achievements, such "connections" represent a particular path, a special complexity, which is illustrated by the examples of specific creative figures who have more or less organically realized themselves in the pop niche.