Cultural production in the working-class resistance: labour activism, gender politics, and solidarities

Yin, Siyuan

doi:10.1080/09502386.2019.1629974

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“…The empowering effects of performance vary depending on the audience (Crossley, 2015). Scholars studying the New Workers Art Troupe in Beijing revealed a dilemma: not all workers prefer these working-class songs, and some of them are familiar with and enjoy the popular consumerist songs (Kuo, 2017;Liu, 2018;Yin, 2019). Similar situations can be found in the present case.…”

Section: Body and Performancesupporting

confidence: 56%

“…Limited and uncertain finances are always a problem. Third, in an authoritarian context, it is also quite common for this kind of musical production, aimed at expressing resistance through music, to be surveilled, and sometimes it even invites crackdowns (de Kloet, 2003;Yin, 2019). In China, the propaganda department has long played a very active role in censoring products from the music industry.…”

Section: Body and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, migrant workers' musical practices have received less attention (important exceptions include Kuo, 2016Kuo, , 2017Liu, 2018;Sun, 2014;and Yin, 2019). Extant analyses mainly focus on how the discursive form of lyrics produced by a worker-band, such as the New Workers Art Troupe, is used as a tool for cultural activism (Yin, 2019). This study broadens the discussion of migrant workers' musical practices by going beyond discourse analysis and highlighting the corporeal component.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Scholars have investigated a series of working-class cultural products, exploring the role of these cultural practices in shaping the class consciousness of contemporary Chinese migrant workers (Qiu, 2009(Qiu, , 2015a(Qiu, , 2015bSun, 2014;Sun and Qiu, 2015;Wallis, 2018). However, migrant workers' musical practices have received less attention (important exceptions include Kuo, 2016Kuo, , 2017Liu, 2018;Sun, 2014;and Yin, 2019). Extant analyses mainly focus on how the discursive form of lyrics produced by a worker-band, such as the New Workers Art Troupe, is used as a tool for cultural activism (Yin, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Musical resistance and musical bodies in the making: A worker-band from southern China

Huang

2021

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This study explores the role of the body in the making of a migrant worker-band and the potential for musical production and performance activities to reshape workers’ cultural subjectivities. A framework of reflexive embodiment is used to understand how musical production and performance activities shape the cultural subjectivities of migrant workers through three bodily processes: body as text/text as body, body as instrument and body in performance. By highlighting the bodily dimension, this article seeks to broadly engage with and advance scholarship on the nexus between cultural practices and the formation of working-class subjectivity, and to specifically enrich our understanding of the migrant workers in contemporary China. This alternative musical practice is a form of ‘musical resistance’ that is not only culturally remaking working-class bodies but also providing cultural resources for the solidarity of the working-class community.

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Section: Body and Performancesupporting

confidence: 56%

Section: Body and Performancementioning

confidence: 99%