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A visitor watches the items on display at Serve the Rock show in Beijing. ZouHong/China Daily
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The retrospective seeks to tell the story of the rise of indie bands in China. Chen Nan reports.
Serve the Rock, billed as the first major exhibition to review the history of rock music acrossthe Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, opened on Oct 25 at Asian Art Works galleryin Beijing's 798 Art Zone.
The exhibition, curated by Huang Liaoyuan from Beijing, Chang Yiping from Taiwan and FloraKwong Man-wai from Hong Kong, looks at the rock scene in the regions over the past threedecades.
The show includes personal items and collections, that have never before been publiclydisplayed, says Liang Long, the lead vocalist and songwriter of indie rock band Second HandRose, who initiated the idea of holding such a rock retrospective earlier this year.
Among the items on display are a guitar used by Cui Jian, known as the "godfather" ofChinese rock music, and his concert posters from the early 1990s; Second Hand Rose'sstage costumes from its 2013 Beijing concert; and videos and photos from the first HohaiyanRock Festival in 2000 and the 1994 Chinese Rock Power concert held at the Hong KongArena. The 1994 concert stunned Hong Kong audiences and created a momentum for thewave of rock that then washed over the mainland.
"To have progress, we should look at the past and learn from it first," says Liang, 36, whorecently returned from his band's first US tour.
He says that unlike today's young music lovers, who have wide access to information via theInternet, most rock musicians on the Chinese mainland during the 1980s and '90s wereintroduced to rock music via cassette tapes and CDs smuggled in from the West.
"I hope that the exhibition will help remind today's young audiences of what the establishedrockers achieved and how much they went through while pursuing their rock dreams," Liangsays.
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