After the coming to power of the Communist Party, for many years music performers-who were all then in state-run troupes, as there was no private music industry-were confined to Western classical music as the mainstream, with folk music in a supporting role. Not a thought was spared for the popular music that had been coming out of Shanghai since the 1930's.
大陸政權易主後，長年以西方古典音樂為主流，民族音樂為次，音樂工作者對三○年代以降上海流行歌曲不屑一顧。