The Hizz Collective: acoustic disruption and claiming space in the Cairo soundscape

IF 0.2 1区艺术学 0 MUSIC

Ethnomusicology Forum Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI:10.1080/17411912.2021.2008263

Tucker M. Wiedenkeller

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper examines Hizz, a collective started in Cairo, Egypt, that acts as record label, venue, gallery and artist residency. Through analysing the music that Hizz produces, its spaces and distribution methods, its organisation as a collective, and its international connections, it argues that Hizz creates new forms of social engagement and defiant politics in Cairo, thereby disrupting engrained aesthetic and social patterns. Hizz reflects a post-revolution creativity, pitted against an authoritarian regime and an elitist neo-liberal dance music scene. The aesthetic of Hizz incorporates ambient, noise and post-punk, Sufi mawlid music, mahraganat, and chaabi, in a way that enacts a conversation between different sonic elements in their surroundings. Such local relevance sees Hizz defying the strict class boundaries that define Egyptian society. This paper combines two years of field work in Cairo following the Hizz collective since their inception in 2017, further interviews, and literature on sound and space.

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The Hizz Collective:在开罗的音景中，声音的破坏和占据空间

摘要本文考察了Hizz，一个始于埃及开罗的集体，作为唱片公司、场地、画廊和艺术家驻地。通过分析Hizz制作的音乐、其空间和发行方法、其集体组织及其国际联系，它认为Hizz在开罗创造了新形式的社会参与和挑衅政治，从而破坏了根深蒂固的审美和社会模式。Hizz反映了革命后的创造力，与独裁政权和精英主义的新自由主义舞曲对抗。Hizz的美学融合了环境、噪音和后朋克、苏菲风格的音乐、mahraganat和chaabi，在某种程度上再现了周围不同声音元素之间的对话。这种地方性的相关性使得希兹挑战了定义埃及社会的严格阶级界限。本文结合了自2017年Hizz集体成立以来在开罗进行的两年实地工作、进一步的采访以及关于声音和空间的文献。

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Ethnomusicology Forum MUSIC-

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1.10

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： Articles often emphasise first-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of fieldwork. Typically, ethnographies aim for a broad assessment of the processes and contexts through and within which music is imagined, discussed and made. Ethnography may be synthesised with a variety of analytical, historical and other methodologies, often entering into dialogue with other disciplinary areas such as music psychology, music education, historical musicology, performance studies, critical theory, dance, folklore and linguistics. The field is therefore characterised by its breadth in theory and method, its interdisciplinary nature and its global perspective.