# J-pop, K-pop: what other \*-pops are there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 27, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475 "2025-01-27T13:13:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/1 "2025-01-27T13:13:39Z")
Korea and Japan, respectively, have brought us the K-pop and J-pop music genres. I see now from Wikipedia that there are also these other \*-pops: > **[C-pop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-pop)** > > C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music (traditional Chinese: 漢語流行音樂; simplified Chinese: 汉语流行音乐; pinyin: hànyǔ liúxíng yīnyuè; Jyutping: hon3jyu5 lau4hang4 jam1ngok6), a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (the Greater China region). This also includes countries where Chinese languages are used by parts of the population, such as Singapore and Malaysia. C-pop is used as an umbrella term covering not only Chinese pop but also... > **[Hokkien pop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien_pop)** > > Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (Chinese: 臺語流行音樂), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk (Chinese: 臺語歌), is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia. Hokkien pop is most popular amongst Hoklo people in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the Overseas Chinese and Overseas Taiwanese in Southeast Asia, such as Chines... > **[Indian pop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_pop)** > > Indian pop music, also known as I-pop or Indi-pop, refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema. Indian pop is closely linked to Bollywood, Tollywood, Pollywood, Kollywood and the Asian Underground scene of the United Kingdom. The variety of South Asian music from different countries are generally known as Desi music. > Pop music originated in the South Asian region with the playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song "Ko Ko Korina" in 1966 and has si... > **[Pinoy pop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinoy_pop)** > > Pinoy pop (also known as Philippine pop; an abbreviated form of "Pinoy popular music" or "Philippine popular music"; or P-Pop) refers to popular music in the Philippines originating from the OPM genre. With its beginnings in the late 1970s, Pinoy pop is a growing genre in the 2020s. Through the 1990s to the 2000s, Pinoy pop was regularly showcased in the live band scene. > Groups such as Neocolours, Side A, Introvoys, the Teeth, Yano, True Faith, Passage and Freestyle popularized songs that cle... Are there other nation-named \*-pop music genres that rise to comparable levels of popularity? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/2 "2025-01-27T13:30:00Z")
Weasel Pop!! 😀 Come on, don’t tell me you never heard the phrase, “Pop goes the weasel!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/3 "2025-01-27T13:33:39Z")
[American pop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_popular_music)? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/4 "2025-01-27T13:38:56Z")
There’s Britpop, of course. (Big in the 90s, think Blur, Oasis, Suede, Pulp, Supergrass). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/5 "2025-01-27T14:27:29Z")
Every country has its own musical scene; the only question is whether people outside the country have heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/6 "2025-01-27T16:07:17Z")
And whether there’s an English/American coinage of “[Initial]-pop” to describe it. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/7 "2025-01-27T18:12:13Z")
I’ve heard of Mandopop, which is pop music in Mandarin. I guess it’s a kind of C-pop. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/8 "2025-01-27T18:42:01Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I’ve heard of Mandopop, which is pop music in Mandarin. I thought it was more like: [![](https://media.tenor.com/GQWVvrCP8bIAAAAM/the-mandalorian-dancing.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/GQWVvrCP8bIAAAAM/the-mandalorian-dancing.gif) ---
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> **[Cantopop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantopop)** > > Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hong Kong popular music from the middle of the decade. Cantopop then reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before slowly declining in the 2000s and shrinking in the 2010s. The term "Cantopop" itself was coined in 1978 after "Cantorock" Besid... “Cantopop” is a specific subset of C-pop. I became familiar with it due to my fanatical appreciation of 70s-80s-90s Hong Kong action cinema, which includes a pipeline from the music scene to the big screen. A typical example: > **[Jacky Cheung](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacky_Cheung)** > > Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Cheung is widely regarded as a Heavenly King of Cantopop music and an icon of Hong Kong popular culture. He is often dubbed as the "God of Songs" for his vocal delivery and live performances. > Cheung's accolades include the World Music Award (1996) for the World's Best-Selling Asian Artist, the Billboard Music Award (1994) for Most Popular Asian Singer, and a Guinness World Record for the largest combined audience for a ... ---
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Lots here > **[List of music genres and styles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles)** > > This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specific sub-categories. > Chinese: > Hong Kong, China: ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/11 "2025-01-27T23:02:09Z")
There’s Austropop, pop music from Austria. > **[Austropop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austropop)** > > Austropop is pop music from Austria, which came into use in the late 1960s, but had its heyday in the 1970s and early and up until the mid-1980s. Austropop comprises several musical styles, from traditional pop music to rock, and it also sometimes includes traditional folk elements such as yodeling. > Austropop artists usually distinguish themselves from german genres by using decidedly Austrian dialects for their lyrics. For example, Neue Deutsche Welle does not count as Austropop, as not only do... ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/12 "2025-01-28T11:13:23Z")
When you run out of pops, there’s P-Funk. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/13 "2025-01-28T12:24:44Z")
> [@](#): > > J-pop, K-pop: what other \*-pops are there? Tootsie? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/14 "2025-01-28T18:16:42Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > There’s Austropop, pop music from Austria. In response to this post I have listened to various Austropop artists, and it is definitely different. I wonder if Austria has its own Hamburger [Vienna] Schule or Neue Deutsche [Oestereiche] Welle… ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-pop-k-pop-what-other-pops-are-there/1013475/15 "2025-01-28T18:37:05Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > In response to this post I have listened to various Austropop artists, and it is definitely different. I wonder if Austria has its own Hamburger [Vienna] Schule or Neue Deutsche [Oestereiche] Welle… Being German myself, I’m not an expert, but I don’t think so. What we call Austropop started out in the early 70s with mostly Austrian singer/songwriters writing and singing in broad dialect. Of course many of them came from Vienna, but it was never called Viennese school. As for NDW, Falco often has been lumped into it, but he never really was a part of it, his success just happened to be during the same time and he sang mostly in German, but actually in a mix of Viennese German and English. ETA: the contemporary Austrian indie band Ja, Panik is an interesting case. Like Falco, they sing in a mix of German with Austrian dialect and English, but they reside in Berlin. Sorry, only German link, they don’t have an English wiki page. > **[Ja, Panik](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja,_Panik)** > > Ja, Panik im SO36 (2014) > Ja, Panik ist eine aus Österreich stammende, mittlerweile in Berlin ansässige Band. > Sie wurde im November 2005 von Andreas Spechtl, Stefan Pabst, Christian Treppo und Manuel Dinhof in Wien gegründet. Schon ein Jahr später verließ Dinhof die Band und wurde von Sebastian Janata am Schlagzeug ersetzt. > Auf ihrer ersten Deutschland-Tour war Thomas Schleicher als Roadie mit der Band unterwegs. Kurz danach spielte er sein erstes Konzert als Gitarrist und war bis 2012 festes M... ---
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> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Tootsie? Jiffy. ---
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Don’t forget Snap Crackle Pop ---
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I give you **U-pop:** Shahrizoda, an Uyghur girl group in Uzbekistan. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RdUmDyzd2fw/hqdefault.jpg "Shahrizoda Three Uyghur Girls from Uzbekistan") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdUmDyzd2fw) ---
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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Jiffy. Jello