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Nathanel Amar

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Researching Sinophone music & popular culture ⵣ Wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit? "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire", PUR, 2022 scream4life.hypotheses.org

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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
He Yong 何勇 is gone at 57… The first Chinese “proto-punk”, he performed for the students in 1989 with his band, his first and only album released in 1994, “Garbage Dump” was an instant classic 有没有希望? m.eeo.com.cn/2026/0904/10...
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摇滚歌手何勇去世:一个用力撞向世界的人,唱完了青春-经济观察网
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Manya Koetse @manyapan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No matter how you feel about Niu Lai, we can all agree on one thing: something extraordinary happened in Chinese cinemas this month. A mother-and-son duo’s animated 3D film earned just 342 yuan ($50) on opening day. Then its crude visuals turned it into a viral success. This is a video thread.
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
With Dino Ge Zhang we investigated how French and American reactionary and far-right online communities reacted to the Chinese video game “Black Myth Wukong”. Spoiler: they loved it.
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The new SMZB 生命之饼 album is finally out! The veteran Wuhan punk band released a double album in Chinese and English, "在野之王" or "When The Party Is Over". Two covers, one of Lo Ta-yu ("亚细亚的孤儿") and one of Zheng Zhihua ("水手", for those familiar with the Tiananmen vigil) smzb.bandcamp.com/album/cn-ver...
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在野之王(赤马红羊CN version), by SMZB
12 track album
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Egalement présent dans le 4e épisode sur la figure du dragon, cette fois ci pour évoquer la chanson « Descendants du dragon » 龍的傳人 de Hou Dejian et ses multiples reinterpretations: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Le dragon, symbole des empereurs et de la Chine : épisode 4/10 du podcast La mythologie chinoise | France Culture
AUDIO La mythologie chinoise, épisode 4/10 : Le dragon, symbole des empereurs et de la Chine. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le dragon, symbole des empereurs et de la Chine, et...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
J’interviens dans le 3e épisode de la série d’été de France Culture, “La mythologie chinoise” de François Bougon en compagnie notamment de Vincent Durand-Dastès sur le mythe de Sun Wukong. J’y évoque la polémique suite à la sortie du jeu vidéo Black Myth Wukong www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Le roi des singes, Sun Wukong : épisode 3/10 du podcast La mythologie chinoise | France Culture
AUDIO La mythologie chinoise, épisode 3/10 : Le roi des singes, Sun Wukong. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le roi des singes, Sun Wukong, et découvrez nos podcasts en ligne.
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ce soir jeudi 2 juillet à partir de 20h au bar Black Dog à Paris, William Spok dédicacera son livre sur la scène métal chinoise (« Quand le metal fait résonner la Chine ») que j’ai eu le privilège de préfacer www.facebook.com/share/p/1E7Y...
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Cultures Monde @culturesmonde.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Kinmen, un pont entre la Chine et Taïwan ? Jusqu'aux années 1990, l'archipel taïwanais de Kinmen était considéré comme un rempart face à la Chine. Démilitarisé et transformé en destination touristique, l'archipel voit les liens avec la rive chinoise augmenter. 🎧 @franceculture.fr urls.fr/n61vZZ
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Kinmen, un pont entre la Chine et Taïwan ?
Situé à seulement quelques kilomètres des côtes chinoises, l'archipel taïwanais de Kinmen a longtemps été considéré comme une "ligne de front" avec la Chine. Mais depuis les années 1990, la militarisa...
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Libération @liberation.fr · 17/06/2026
⚫ Mort à 87 ans de Carlo Ginzburg, pape italien de la microhistoire L’ancien professeur s’est toujours attaché à privilégier les cas spécifiques et à laisser dans ses recherches une place au hasard ➡️ l.liberation.fr/xL6
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For the 37th anniversary of Tiananmen here’s a blog post I wrote back in 2021, “Remembering Tiananmen with Songs”: scream4life.hypotheses.org/2023
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Remembering Tiananmen with Music
For the first time, there will (probably) be no vigil to commemorate the 32th year anniversary of the repression of the Tiananmen movement in the Sinophone world, due to the COVID situation in Taiwan,...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Merci à Cultures Monde pour cette invitation et cette recherche sonore qui met en valeur les sons encore trop peu connus du punk chinois dans toute sa complexité!
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wutiaoren 五條人 at the Cannes Festival with Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao for his new short film, “Torino Shadow” 都灵之影. Wutiaoren already performed in Jia’s last movie, “Caught by the Tide” 风流一代
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I may have created the coolest memorabilia of Chinese indie rock and roll
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 01/04/2026
On April 1, 2003, Cantopop superstar Leslie Cheung jumped to his death from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong. A stream of Hongkongers paid tribute outside the hotel on Wednesday, 23 years on. Photos: Tom Grundy/HKFP. In full: buff.ly/GkTZP5r
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Très juste compte-rendu par Chayma Boda de mon livre "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire" dans le dernier numéro d'Études Chinoises @etudeschinoises.bsky.social : www.persee.fr/doc/etchi_07...
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Amar Nathanel, 2022, Scream for Life. L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire, Presses universitaires de Rennes (coll. Essais), Rennes - Persée
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Presses de l’Inalco @pressesinalco.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
[✨PARUTION] Études chinoises n° XLIV 👉 Un numéro centré sur deux disciplines : l'histoire et la littérature 📚En librairie et sur @persee.fr : www.persee.fr/issue/etchi_...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Omnipotent Youth Society 万能青年旅店 singing their anthem “Kill the One from Shijiazhuang” 杀死那个石家庄人 during their sold-out Paris concert
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Ce soir c'est le concert (déjà complet) de Omnipotent Youth Society 万能青年旅店 au Cabaret Sauvage, l'occasion de rappeler l'histoire du groupe sous la plume de François Bougon sur Mediapart: www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
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Une étape parisienne pour le plus célèbre des groupes de rock indé chinois
Omnipotent Youth Society s’est imposé sur la scène rock indépendante chinoise depuis son premier album en 2010. Le groupe compose la bande-son parfaite des réformes économiques et de ses inégalités s…
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just received my hard copy of Internet Vulgarities in China, edited by Jian Xu and Dino Ge Zhang. Thrilled to have contributed to this collective book alongside such an impressive line-up! I had so much fun writing this chapter on vulgar internet songs, from "Mice Love Rice" to PG-One.
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Nouveau podcast de Chine Yuefu pour la nouvelle année lunaire du cheval: une sélection des meilleurs chansons Sinophone de 2025 avec @gbienvenu.bsky.social Antoine Clairé et moi-même. Première épisode dispo ici: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...
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Épisode 11 - Spécial Nouvel An Lunaire (上)
Épisode de l’émission · Chine Yuefu 新乐府 · S. 2 Ép. 11 · 1 h 14 min
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I’m sorry but the current discourse about the so-called “fake ending” of Stranger Things is literally popular gematria and exegesis. It’s crazy but I’m here for it.
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The founding manager and first guitar player of the legendary Beijing metal band Black Panther 黑豹, Guo Chuanlin 郭传林 passed away at 66 on January 4: www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_f...
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著名音乐人、黑豹乐队创始人郭传林逝世,享年66岁_时政湃_澎湃新闻-The Paper
澎湃新闻记者从相关方面获悉,著名音乐人郭传林先生,于2026年1月4日因病逝世,享年66岁。
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
For my friends in Beijing, this evening we're putting on an especially good show in our weekly series, with performance by Yan Yulong, Yan Jun and Zhang Shouwang, three of the best-known experimental musicians in China.
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's almost the end of the year, which means it's time to talk about what I listened to in 2025: here's a list of Sinophone songs and albums released this year (without any particular order). The list will be updated until the end of 2025 (because I forgot stuff): scream4life.hypotheses.org/4937
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Sinophone Music in 2025: A Year of Creativity
2025 is almost over, and like every year, here is a list of Sinophone songs and albums I listen to this year. For me, this year was a year of intense creativity. After the aftershock of the COVID pand...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Li Zhi 李志 covering SMZB’s song “No Friend No Life” in Wuhan 15 years ago is the video I didn’t know I needed: youtu.be/q-D_IheTRuU?...
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李志乐队翻唱SMZB歌曲No Friend No Life
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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊 @pybaubry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Le 29e prix de la Fondation culturelle franco-taïwanaise décerné à Wu Hsi-deh et Victor Louzon
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Le 29e prix de la Fondation culturelle franco-taïwanaise décerné à Wu Hsi-deh et Victor Louzon, Taiwan Info
Le Taïwanais Wu Hsi-deh [吳錫德], professeur honoraire à l’université Tamkang, à New Taipei, et le Français Victor Louzon, maître de conférences &agrav...
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French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) @cefc-fr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Le 21 novembre à 18h, la librairie Parenthèses reçoit l’écrivain Yan Lianke, romancier majeur de la scène littéraire chinoise. L’échange sera modéré par Justine Rochot, chercheuse au CEFC, et Nathanel Amar, chercheur et enseignant à Hong Kong University.
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 28/10/2025
The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore what it means to come of age in China today, at a moment when the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless. Download the whole issue at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/27/b...
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
What does it mean to come of age in a society where the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless? Find out more in the latest issue of ‘Made in China Journal’: doi.org/10.22459/MIC...
ANU Press New Release. Cover image of Made in China Journal: Volume 10, Issue 1, 2025
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Job klaxon 🚨 Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography) Deadline: November 4 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Postroctoral research fellow in social sciences/migration studies (Based in Taipei, Taiwan)
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...
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Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi
Unfiltered Regard for China is a collection of six unique narratives of French academics who, through decades of fieldwork, research, and engagement—some beginning as early as 1964 and continuing to t...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Very sad news: the past singer of Beijing metal band Ordnance 军械所 and singer of Mega Soul 万重, Ying Peng 应鹏 passed away last week at 42. I remember going to 13 Club every other week in 2007 to see Ordnance perform. My first course of Chinese political science and dissent: youtu.be/FBSfT0GkBbo?...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
An article on Hsu Hsih 許石, who saved Taiwan folk music and "rediscovered" the blind folk musician Chen Da 陳達. It's the subject of Andrew Jone's fifth chapter ("Folk Circuits. Discovering Chen Da") of the now classic "Circuit Listening. Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s".
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773
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Zine “Do You Like Chinese Music” + Playlist
Last July, with my esteemed colleague and friend Grégoire Bienvenu, who wrote his PhD on Chinese hip-hop and host the fabulous podcast “Chine Yuefu” (in French), we decided to write a zine on Chinese ...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Two new Chinese album released this month: "5689" by legendary electronic band Supermarket 超级市场 music.apple.com/tw/album/568... and "整一座城市的胡椒粉也辣不死人" (Peasant Delights) by controversial punk band Dirty Fingers 脏手指 (the lead singer was accused of sexual harassement) open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu...
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超級市場在 Apple Music 上的《5689》
專輯 · 2025年 · 10 首歌
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In this month's Sinophone music press review: a Taiwanese music festival for democracy in Vancouver, a fashion brand co-founded by Mayday's Ashin, New Pants singing with Minions, and of course the never-ending end of hallyu ban (I'll believe when I'll see it): scream4life.hypotheses.org/4742
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Monthly Press Review 18 – August 2025
Sunset Rollercoaster rocks at Fuji Rock Taiwanese indie band Sunset Rollercoaster (落日飛車) performed at the Japanese music festival Fuji Rock, and reveals in this Taipei Times article how they became th...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hong Kong pianist and musician Anthony Sun Wei Ming played Beyond’s classic "海闊天空", before his departure at Kuala Lumpur International Airport - after participating to a tribute concert dedicated to Wong Ka Kui in Malaysia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9o...
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孫老師KLIA即興彈奏Beyond海闊天空
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The legendary Beijing punk act Hang On The Box 挂在盒子上 - still fronted by GIA (but apparently not an all-female band anymore) - gave a concert at the Strawberry Party in Beijing on August 8
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The Sinophone Music press review of June-July is finally here! In this issue, a newly discovered Teresa Teng’s Japanese song, the first Chinese rapper surpassing Jay Chou on streaming platforms, a Taiwanese song censored in Taiwan, GMA winners and much more! scream4life.hypotheses.org/4689
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Monthly Press Review 16 – June & July 2025
The end of K-pop ban in China (again)? Another article on the possible end of the unofficial K-pop ban in China since 2016, this time on NBC News. The K-pop band Epex was supposed to perform in May bu...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A lot of love for the three demos posted online by the Chengdu garage punk band MENGZHUMENG 悶煮悶 entitled "Social Reintegration", with songs like "High School Dropout", "Make Money For What" or "CN NSBM Fuckoff": mengzhumeng.bandcamp.com/album/social...
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Social reintegration DEMO#1, by 悶煮悶MENGZHUMENG Provided by 业业业唱片YEYEYERECORDS
6 track album
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New upload: So Rock! Magazine (我爱摇滚乐) issue 125 (July 2012), a special issue on Lanzhou and Xining bands, featuring 低苦艾 (Low Wormwood) and their famous song, "Lanzhou Lanzhou": scream4life.hypotheses.org/299#124
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So Rock! Magazine (我爱摇滚乐) CD Archive Project
Table of Contents: We previously talked about 1990s rock magazines in China, as “Punk Generation” (朋克时代) or “Freedom Music” (自由音乐). They pretty much all disappeared after one or two years. One fanzine...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
A new Sinophone music press review (May 2025): commemorating the 30th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death, Mayday's Taipei concerts sold-out in minutes, Freddy Lim becoming Taiwan's representative in Finland, and more: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4597
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Monthly Press Review 16 – May 2025
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death This May marks the 30th anniversary of Taiwanese popular singer Teresa Teng untimely death. A remembrance service was held in Taiwan on May 8,...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Possibly the first time the China Daily (English edition) mentions the Wuhan punk band SMZB in an article on indie music in Wuhan. The problem is that the lyrics they quote from the song "大武漢" (the song is in Chinese and English) are slightly different... 1/3 global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/21/...
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In Wuhan the beat goes on
The first time I went to Wuhan was in 2011. I arrived at lunch time on New Year's Eve and the whole afternoon was devoted to interviewing the Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne.
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“Would I make the same mistakes? 龐貝、龐貝、龐貝 我會的,我一定會” The Beijing based band Wasted Laika 丢莱卡 singing their banger「龐貝影子舞」at MOM Livehouse in Hong Kong yesterday
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Apparently you can pre-order the Switch 2 at Don Don Donki
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
30 years ago on this day, Teresa Teng passed away in Chiang Mai. “Wherever there are Chinese-speaking people, there is the music of Teresa Teng”
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Mon livre "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire" est accessible en intégralité sur OpenEdition! My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)! books.openedition.org/pur/257986
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Scream for Life
L’émergence au milieu des années 1990 en République populaire de Chine d’un underground musical punk à Pékin et Wuhan a de quoi surprendre, quelques années seulement après la répression du mouvement d...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
He we go again: April's Sinophone music monthly press review is online. Finally, the Coldplay concert is over. There's also the IShowSpeed visit in China, and its consequences on Chinese soft power (and weirdly enough, Zhang Dawei): scream4life.hypotheses.org/4514
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Monthly Press Review 15 – April 2025
Taiwan Beats SXSW Official Showcase An article on the official website of the SXSW Music Festival on the Taiwanese acts (subsidized by the Taiwan Ministry of Culture) performing at the next SXSW festi...
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Nathanel Amar @nathanelamar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Catching up with Marvel’s Blood Hunt series (2024). They still got it.
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