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The Negotiation of Minority Identities and Representation in the Independent Music Scene of Urban China

La négociation et la représentation des identités ethniques dans le monde de la musique indépendante en Chine

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In this lecture I compare two contemporary musical groups in the independent music scene of urban China, the Mongolian-based folk group Hang Gai (杭盖), who are at the forefront of a musical movement in China that is finding inspiration in native folk traditions, drawing on a repertoire of magical songs that have all but disappeared during China's recent turbulent past. The Yunnan/Guangzhou-based group 3STEP (三跺脚), whose members come from very different backgrounds and places from all over the world, combine the traditional music of minority cultures in Yunnan with the reggae rhythms of Caribbean artists, as well as the performance styles of African artists. I’ll analyze the negotiation of minority identities and representation in their musics from two distinct yet interrelated perspectives. The performance of the group Hang Gai represents the resurgence of regional differences and expresses a nostalgic longing, which are liked to to the renewed exposure to Western culture and to modern capitalism since late 1970s in China, but also to the revival of pre-Revolutionary native practices and realities. The dialogical music of group 3STEP creates a truly global sound inspired by the atmosphere of dynamic change in China today. Genre transgressions invests the politics of genre and cultural boundaries, primarily of rock and folk, regional and global. The multiple meanings and associations of this musical expression are explored within the wider Chinese polity. In a changing China, music provides a site of creative negotiation where new identities can be forged.
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