2025/04/04 by DJ W. Hatfield · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Asian Culture and Media Studies #Asian American and Pacific Histories #Philippine History and Culture
paper · doi:10.1080/03007766.2025.2484896
openalex publication_date 2025/04/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
In this article, I discuss how voices come to have a variety of pragmatic effects. Focusing on far ocean fishing songs, a genre of Taiwanese Indigenous popular musics of the 1970s–1980s, I show how these songs animated the sounds of inanimate objects, such as boat engines and boat horns, in order to produce shared spaces of intimacy. The role of listeners as part of how voices enact cosmopolitan intimacy, moreover, suggests new ways that popular music studies can engage with Indigenous musics and, more broadly, with voice in popular music generally.