流行歌曲来世:中国流行经典街头表演的口头传播与世俗创意

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Journal of World Popular Music Pub Date : 2019-03-17 DOI:10.1558/JWPM.34195

Samuel Horlor

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武汉城市街道上的业余现场表演为中国流行经典歌曲注入了活力；它们是这个剧目被改编和吸收到音乐世界的地方，而不仅仅是那些负责其原创制作和传播的艺术家和行业。这里的歌手通过商业录音来学习歌曲，我对口头传播的理解是，这一过程以反映表演者生活的社会和技术环境的方式促进和限制了创造力。唱片在武汉的业余歌手中传播着变化，街头的技术和技能也带来了一定的局限性和新的可能性。审视流行歌曲《余生》揭示了平凡的创造力层次，它更广泛地评论了当前流行音乐实践中新意义的平淡驱动因素。

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Popular Song Afterlives: Oral Transmission and Mundane Creativity in Street Performances of Chinese Pop Classics

Amateur live performances on the city streets of Wuhan give afterlives to songs of Chinese pop’s canon; they are sites for this repertory to be adapted and assimilated into musical worlds beyond those of the artists and industries responsible for its original production and dissemination. Singers here learn the songs by following commercial recordings, a process I understand with reference to oral transmission as it enables and constrains creativity in ways reflective of the social and technological circumstances of performers’ lives. Recordings feed into the spread of change among Wuhan’s amateur singers, with certain limitations and new possibilities also resulting from the technologies and skills available on the streets. Looking at popular song afterlives exposes mundane layers of creativity, and it comments more broadly on prosaic drivers of new meaning in current popular music practices.

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期刊介绍： Journal of World Popular Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research and scholarship on recent issues and debates surrounding international popular musics, also known as World Music, Global Pop, World Beat or, more recently, World Music 2.0. The journal provides a forum to explore the manifestations and impacts of post-globalizing trends, processes, and dynamics surrounding these musics today. It adopts an open-minded perspective, including in its scope any local popularized musics of the world, commercially available music of non-Western origin, musics of ethnic minorities, and contemporary fusions or collaborations with local ‘traditional’ or ‘roots’ musics with Western pop and rock musics. Placing specific emphasis on contemporary, interdisciplinary, and international perspectives, the journal’s special features include empirical research and scholarship into the global creative and music industries, the participants of World Music, the musics themselves and their representations in all media forms today, among other relevant themes and issues; alongside explorations of recent ideas and perspectives from popular music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, musicology, communication, media and cultural studies, sociology, geography, art and museum studies, and other fields with a scholarly focus on World Music. The journal also features special, guest-edited issues that bring together contributions under a unifying theme or geographical area.