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A Dialogue across Time and Space: Western Classical Quotations in Jay Chou’s Piano Injury

Authors
Yixuan Li1, *
1Inner-Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, Inner-Mongolia, China
*Corresponding author. Email: ashleylee@pro.edu.kg
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Yixuan Li
Available Online 31 July 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-452-5_22How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Jay Chou; Chinese popular music; Western classical music; Music quotation
Abstract

This article aims to analyze the quotations of classical music compositions in Jay Chou’s song Piano Injury and its significance for the development of Chinese popular music. The fusion of pop music with Western classical music is a meaningful research topic. Through the adaptation of Western traditional music, it is harmoniously combined with pop music and together they create a scene full of love and regret. But the research on this topic in the field of Chinese popular music studies are rare. Therefore, this article selects Piano Injury, a representative song that can well embody the spirit of innovation. This song is selected from Jay Chou’s album “Exclamation Mark”, and it well demonstrates the possibility of combining two musical styles. The Western classical music quoted in this song, Tchaikovsky’s June: Barcarolle and Mozart’s Turkish March, also have some representativeness in Western classical music. It is hoped that the analysis of this song will provide ideas for subsequent scholars.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 4th International Conference on Science Education and Art Appreciation (SEAA 2025)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 July 2025
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978-2-38476-452-5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-452-5_22How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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