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...
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