“Red songs” generally refer to songs that glorify socialism, the Communist Party and the revolutionary movement of the proletariat, Therefore, Chinese red songs can also be called “patriotic songs”. After the reform and opening up, the scope of Chinese red songs was expanded to all songs with the characteristics of the times and reflecting the positive energy of society. Taking the reform and opening up to the end of the last century as the time node, this paper elaborates on the four major points of “the embodiment of red songs to real life”, “the characteristics of red songs”, “the melodic characteristics of red songs” and “the role of red songs in the times”, and analyzes the characteristics of Chinese red songs in the past 20 years from the dimensions of politics, economy, culture and society.
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