Diaspora as method, music as hope

Yiu Fai  Chow

doi:10.4324/9781315722191-21

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 language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
Editors	Bull Michael
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Chapter	18
Pages	185-193
Number of pages	9
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315722191
ISBN (Print)	9781138854253, 9780367659745
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315722191-21
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 2018

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