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Article: From performance to politics? Constructing public and counterpublic in the singing of red songs
Title | From performance to politics? Constructing public and counterpublic in the singing of red songs |
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Authors | |
Keywords | public Counterpublic post-reform China red song singing public space |
Issue Date | 2014 |
Citation | European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2014, v. 17, n. 5, p. 602-628 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © The Author(s) 2014.This article uses the conceptual constructs of ‘public’ and ‘counterpublic’ to examine the collective singing of ‘Red Songs’, a state-approved, ideology-laden popular culture, in the city of Guangzhou, China. It approaches these two concepts from actions, practices and shared meanings which render the public/counterpublic visible and concrete. In Guangzhou, the interplays between hegemonic ideas expressed in the red songs and ordinary singers’ agency of re-interpreting and re-reading have shaped the fluidity and complexity of the cultural meanings and political discourses in which this grassroots public dwells. Singers do not simply re-assert the post-reform party-state’s political legitimacy by expressing political allegiance via red songs, but also creatively reconstruct and re-appropriate the meanings woven into red songs to critically reflect upon the social, cultural and moral transformations, as well as new cultural and ethical zeitgeists in the post-reform context. In the meantime, red song singing is also appropriated by New Leftist activists for cultivating new counterpublic political potentials. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238116 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.986 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Qian, Junxi | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-03T02:13:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-03T02:13:05Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2014, v. 17, n. 5, p. 602-628 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1367-5494 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238116 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © The Author(s) 2014.This article uses the conceptual constructs of ‘public’ and ‘counterpublic’ to examine the collective singing of ‘Red Songs’, a state-approved, ideology-laden popular culture, in the city of Guangzhou, China. It approaches these two concepts from actions, practices and shared meanings which render the public/counterpublic visible and concrete. In Guangzhou, the interplays between hegemonic ideas expressed in the red songs and ordinary singers’ agency of re-interpreting and re-reading have shaped the fluidity and complexity of the cultural meanings and political discourses in which this grassroots public dwells. Singers do not simply re-assert the post-reform party-state’s political legitimacy by expressing political allegiance via red songs, but also creatively reconstruct and re-appropriate the meanings woven into red songs to critically reflect upon the social, cultural and moral transformations, as well as new cultural and ethical zeitgeists in the post-reform context. In the meantime, red song singing is also appropriated by New Leftist activists for cultivating new counterpublic political potentials. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | European Journal of Cultural Studies | - |
dc.subject | public | - |
dc.subject | Counterpublic | - |
dc.subject | post-reform China | - |
dc.subject | red song singing | - |
dc.subject | public space | - |
dc.title | From performance to politics? Constructing public and counterpublic in the singing of red songs | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1367549413515256 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84908127704 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 17 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 602 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 628 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1460-3551 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000343770700007 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1367-5494 | - |