Last year, I said that Sinophone music was haunted by death and disappearance, but it was also the year when Chinese bands could again tour the world. This year, it’s about the same: we lost one of the most important...
Chinese musical ‘East Ski’ to open in Shanghai with rapper Zao An China Daily‘s article on a new musical entitled “East Ski”, incorporating Chinese “traditional” elements and hip-hop, featuring the winner of the second season of The Rap of China...
Pictures of Teresa Teng Chiang Mai’s hotel suite surface on social media Pop legend Teresa Teng’s hotel suite in Chiang Mai where she spent her final days has recently been made public according to a VN Express article. Pictures of...
Taiwan version of “The Big Band” begins Yes, Taiwan has now it’s own version of “The Big Band” (乐队的夏天), the iQiyi show which jump-started the carreer of many old and new Chinese indie-rock bands. It’s called “Let’s Listen to the...
Noise in Hong Kong Not the noise you were expecting. But multiple noise complaints were received on the second day of the S2O Hong Kong Songkran Music Festival (the so-called “World’s wettest party”) held at the Central Waterfront, according to...
Another live venue closing in HK- again: Star Hall After Music Zone last month, it’s the turn of Star Hall (a medium 3,600 seats capacity live venue) to close down in Kitec this month, according to a SCMP article. Star...
Young Dan 回春丹 Controversy in Taiwan Hui Chun Dan is an indie rock band from Guangxi, who rose to fame during the third season of The Big Band. Another cross-strait controversy: they sent a Weibo message mentioning “Taiwan, China” before...
Midi Kids Bands Competition An article by China Daily on the latest “Midi Kids Band Competition” – an annual competition organized by the Midi School of Music. The article focuses on two winners of the competition, a Xinjiang band named...
As usual, here is a short review of the year 2023 in music. Not a “best of”, but rather a list of things that happened in 2023, some were good, some were bad. Some were weird (Shijiazhuang’s “rock city” project)....
Lately, a decision by the Shijiazhuang municipal government to brand the city as the “Rock and Roll Home Town” (搖滾之城 also a clever [?] pun, as the “shi” 石 in “Shijiazhuang” literally means “rock”, 家 jia “home”, and 莊 zhuang...
2022 saw a lot of things happening in the Sinophone world: China’s “A4 Revolution”, and the subsequent lifting of the major zero-COVID policies, maybe a reopening of the country to the outside world (who knows?) – but also a surge...
Amar, Nathanel (2022). ‘We come from the underground’: Grounding Chinese punk in Beijing and Wuhan. Popular Music, 41(2), 170-193. doi:10.1017/S0261143022000046 The history of the Chinese punk scene in the scientific literature or in retrospective testimonies is traditionally dominated by a...
De retour au micro de Radio Taiwan International en compagnie de Clément Tricot pour discuter de la sortie du livre Scream for Life. L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Une interview à retrouver sur...
Le livre Scream for Life. L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire, aboutissement de mes recherches sur le mouvement punk en Chine, sort aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes le 31 mars 2022. Vous pouvez retrouver ici la liste des chansons...
En décembre 2021, Clément Tricot m’a invité pour une série de quatre émissions sur Radio Taïwan International sur l’histoire de la censure de la musique à Taïwan. Nous y avons parlé des mécanismes institutionnels de la censure, de la colonisation...
