Diaspora as method, music as hope

Yiu Fai Chow*

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    Abstract

    In November 2013, something unusual happened during the television show Holland’s Got Talent. To begin with, a person with a Chinese background participated in a talent show dominated by white, and to a lesser extent, black bodies. After Wang Xiao, a Chinese research student in the Netherlands, finished his performance, he was greeted with a laughing articulation of “surplise” by a jury member Gordon, a white Dutch singer. The articulation, a stereotyping reference to the presumed Chinese difficulty to pronounce the “r” sound, was followed by more racist remarks, including the most cited “Which number are you singing? Number 39 with rice?”.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
    EditorsBull Michael
    PublisherTaylor and Francis
    Chapter18
    Pages185-193
    Number of pages9
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Electronic)9781315722191
    ISBN (Print)9781138854253, 9780367659745
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2018

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • General Social Sciences

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