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Troubling genre, ethnicity and geopolitics in Taiwanese American independent rock music

Popular music, 2013-01, Vol.32 (1), p.91-109 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 ;Cambridge University Press 2013 ;ISSN: 0261-1430 ;EISSN: 1474-0095 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0261143012000578

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Title:
Troubling genre, ethnicity and geopolitics in Taiwanese American independent rock music
Author: Hsu, Wendy F.
Subjects: alternative music ; Asian Americans ; Asians ; Bands ; Chinese culture ; East Asian culture ; er hu music ; Ethnic nationalism ; Ethnicity ; ethnomusicology ; folk music ; gender ; Geopolitics ; Hsu, Jack ; Hsu-nami (musical group) ; Ideology ; Multiculturalism & pluralism ; Musical modes ; Musical performance ; Musicians & conductors ; Popular music ; race ; rock and roll music ; Rock music ; Taiwanese identity ; transnationalism ; United States
Is Part Of: Popular music, 2013-01, Vol.32 (1), p.91-109
Description: This paper examines the performances of Taiwanese American Jack Hsu and his New Jersey-based progressive erhu-rock band The Hsu-nami, in transnational contexts fraught by ethnonationalism and race. Through an ethnographic approach, this paper highlights the band's depoliticising practice to deflect the geopolitics across the Taiwan Strait. It also discusses how Hsu adapts the musical and gender ideologies in rock music culture to diffuse racial ideologies surrounding his ethnicity and instrument. Finally, an analysis of the band's deployment of cultural diplomacy discusses pragmatic multiculturalism, a mode that reflects the tension between rock music's ostensibly counter-cultural front and its commercial foundation.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0261-1430
EISSN: 1474-0095
DOI: 10.1017/S0261143012000578
Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central

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Troubling genre, ethnicity and geopolitics in Taiwanese American independent rock music

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 ;Cambridge University Press 2013 ;ISSN: 0261-1430 ;EISSN: 1474-0095 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0261143012000578

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