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Floating and Blending — The Songs of the Miao Cleaning Women in Shanghai
Xiong Manyu [熊曼谕]
ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 11 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.11-8 pp: 105-116 2023-06-22
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Stichworte/keywords: Music volunteers; Miao songs; Singing as ceremony; Practice; Engaged ethnomusicology
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[熊曼谕], X.M. (2023). Floating and Blending — The Songs of the Miao Cleaning Women in Shanghai. ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL, 11 , 105-116. doi:10.30819/aemr.11-8
@article{[熊曼谕]_2023,
doi = {10.30819/aemr.11-8},
url = {https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.11-8},
year = 2023,
publisher = {Logos Verlag Berlin},
volume = {11},
pages = {105-116},
author = {Xiong Manyu [熊曼谕]},
title = {Floating and Blending — The Songs of the Miao Cleaning Women in Shanghai},
journal = {ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL}
}
Abstract
This paper discusses the praxis of ‘music volunteers’ in ethnomusicology, taking the process of being engaged in
the music life of Miao cleaning women working in Shanghai as an example, to reflect on the possibility of
‘engaged practice’. The ‘music volunteers’ activities help us to explore the ‘differences’ between various types of
knowledge and follow in search of the ‘liquid knowledge’2 that really emerges in the cultural context and power
hierarchy of the city. In this process, we try to build a dynamic cultural space together, breaking the binary
boundaries between urban and rural areas as well as insiders and outsiders.