We come from the underground

Grounding Chinese punk in Beijing and Wuhan

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ID4932960
AuthorsNathanel Amar (0000-0002-0574-6464, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue2
Pages170-193
Publication date2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143022000046
OpenAlexW4293576976
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

The history of the Chinese punk scene in the scientific literature or in retrospective testimonies is traditionally dominated by a Beijing-centric approach, which stresses the importance of Beijing punk bands in the 1990s for the formation of this youth subculture. However, at the same time another punk scene was emerging in Wuhan, and no convincing argument has been provided to explain how, at the same time, in two Chinese cities, a punk movement appeared. Relying on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and collection of data, this article aims to explain how in the mid-1990s young Chinese succeeded into territorialising a foreign subculture in two different Chinese cities

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Art history · Beijing · China · Ethnography · Media studies · Punk · Sociology · Subculture (biology · Anthropology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Music History and Culture

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