2021, A Year With Sinophone Music
It’s now becoming a tradition, reviewing the past year in music – as we did in 2020 or in 2019 with a review of the past decade. To be honest it’s complicated to top last year, with the (very) long...
It’s now becoming a tradition, reviewing the past year in music – as we did in 2020 or in 2019 with a review of the past decade. To be honest it’s complicated to top last year, with the (very) long...
What can we do? KTV! Where can we go? KTV! Brain Failure 脑浊, “KTV” [UPDATE] The regulations have been adopted. To see what has changed from the draft to the actual regulations, see this part at the end. Since the...
For the first time, there will (probably) be no vigil to commemorate the 32th year anniversary of the repression of the Tiananmen movement in the Sinophone world, due to the COVID situation in Taiwan, or the National Security Law (NSL)...
In a few days, the 2010s will be over, and everyone is making his own list, discussing the best and worst of the 2010s (like the best and worst movies of the decade – a piece of advise: if the...
J’ai publié en mai un article sur RadiiChina intitulé “The Great Chinese Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle“, sur l’histoire d’un faussaire du punk chinois dans les années 1980, qui a assez paradoxalement rencontré un certain succès. Comme c’est une histoire française...
“La France ne reconnaît pas les communautés, mais nous traite comme telles” disait Youssoupha dans “Entourage”. La représentation de ses minorités dans la culture populaire est un problème récurrent en France, notamment en ce concerne la communauté asiatique, comme le...
Le mouvement démocratique de 1989 – et sa répression le 4 juin – fêtent ses 30 ans. 30 années qui ont eu un impact sans précédent sur la musique populaire chinoise, depuis la répression de la sphère rock au sortir...
This is maybe the last testimony of the music early Wuhan punk bands. As mentioned earlier in this article on Wuhan punk, Wuhan was one of the first cities, with Beijing, to witness the apparition of a punk subculture in...
Music censorship in China is not new, it has made the headline in the recent past during the infamous “hip-hop ban” of January 2018. During the so-called “hip-hop ban”, we could literally see the panic of the official censors when...
I was going through a pile of Mandopop albums in a tiny Chinese music/video store located in a basement of Los Angeles’ Chinatown when I stumbled upon a dusty album published in 2004 displaying on the cover two guys dressed...
“Beijing Calling. Le punk chinois se cherche un futur” – La Revue du Crieur n°12 Après la répression des contestations étudiantes de 1989, la Chine s’engage dans une relative ouverture économique tout en maintenant le contrôle du Parti communiste sur...
2018 was an interesting and eventful year for Chinese music. The so-called « hip-hop ban », Freddy Lim and his band Chthonic banned from entering Hong Kong for a festival organized by Denise Ho, the Lil Pump scandal… But 2018 was also...
Publication de l’article “Drunk is beautiful. Boire au bord de l’eau : usage de l’alcool dans la communauté punk chinoise” dans le numéro spécial “L’alcool rituel et les ethnographes” de la revue Civilisations: https://journals.openedition.org/civilisations/4495 et pour celleux qui ont accès...
Call for contributions China Perspectives / Perspectives chinoises Sinophone Musical Worlds and their Publics Guest editor: Dr Nathanel Amar, postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong Download PDF File here: Call for abstracts CP China musical...
L’histoire du mouvement démocratique chinois de 1989 est aussi une histoire musicale. Des chanteurs, la plupart rockeurs, se sont mobilisés en faveur des étudiants, qui en retour s’emparaient de chansons rocks dans les manifestations. C’est désormais un lieu commun de...