The sophomore class of the Department Popular Music Industry of STUST held a joint music conference—"Pop-Sound 1970”—on January 6th and 7th in the Concert Hall, N Building, STUST. The concert focused on the popular music of the 1970s, when the flame of popular music was developing and spreading. Riding a scooter and wearing bell bottom jeans, young people rushed to Teresa Teng's shows. Following the songs of the 1970s against the colorful lights vaguely seen, all the boys and girls sang and danced around the mirror ball. The cheers could hardly stop.

[The sophomore class of the Department Popular Music Industry of STUST held a joint music conference—"Pop-Sound 1970.”]

The joint music conference was created, listened to, and adapted from the pop music of the 1970s by the sophomore students of the Department of Popular Music of STUST. They sang the songs that their parents and elders missed the most in childhood. In addition, the students also wrote a number of original songs, ranging from soft rock, R&B, jazz, heavy metal, rap, and a variety of other styles, allowing the music presentation to break out of the music circle that the general audience usually listens to, bringing them together back to the old good days.

[Group photo of the sophomore class of the Department Pop Music Industry, STUST, in the joint music conference—"Pop-Sound 1970.”]

Under the careful guidance of their teachers from the academic sphere and music industry, students from the Popular Music Industry Department of STUST have the professional ability to perform the work behind the scenes of live concerts. In order to provide students with a more complete learning space, STUST has invested a lot in building an indoor concert hall and an outdoor performance stage—"By the Water,” which can accommodate thousands of spectators. Along with the superb professional classrooms, this offers the students a better and more diverse learning space. The grouping of this concert was huge and complicated. Each member must perform multiple roles and work together to complete all the tasks, from planning, creation, arrangement, training, publicity, main visual arts, public relations, makeup and hair styling, show hosting, FB and IG community promotion, multimedia live broadcast, stage lighting, sound planning, etc. all of these were completed by all the sophomore students of the Department of Popular Music Industry.

According to President Deng-Maw Lu of STUST, the Department of Popular Music Industry of STUST is the first department in the country to cultivate talents in the pop music industry. It follows the international model of popular music school, leading its students into the world of musical creation, show business, audio and video technology, and stage production. The goal is to develop popular music with Chinese culture that integrates local cultural characteristics and comes in line with international popular culture. In addition, STUST combines the resources of the popular music with those from the Video Production Center in the Tainan Cultural and Creative Park. Through the training of managing concert performance and stage production project, the department strengthens students’ practical skills of music brokerage and internship mechanism, so that they can receive complete training in the pop music industry before they graduate and easily get connected with the job market.