Listen to the Boat Engines: The Intimate Voicing of Taiwanese Indigenous Cosmopolitanism in Far Ocean Fishing Songs.
In this article, I discuss how voices come to have a variety of pragmatic effects. Focusing on far ocean fishing songs, a genre of Taiwanese Indigenous popular musics of the 1970s–1980s, I show how these songs animated the sounds of inanimate objects, such as boat engines and boat horns, in order to...
| Publicado en: | Popular Music & Society Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 279 - 299 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2025
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| Sumario: | In this article, I discuss how voices come to have a variety of pragmatic effects. Focusing on far ocean fishing songs, a genre of Taiwanese Indigenous popular musics of the 1970s–1980s, I show how these songs animated the sounds of inanimate objects, such as boat engines and boat horns, in order to produce shared spaces of intimacy. The role of listeners as part of how voices enact cosmopolitan intimacy, moreover, suggests new ways that popular music studies can engage with Indigenous musics and, more broadly, with voice in popular music generally. |
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