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Permeable Frames: Intersections of the Performance, the Everyday, and the Ethical in Chinese Street Singing

Horlor, Samuel

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Amateur performances of pop classics take place daily in various public spots in Wuhan, China. Audience members reward singers with cash tips; these practices are bound up in personal relationships established as the two parties socialise at and away from the events. Building on Goffmanian notions of frame shifting, I explore how performance, everyday, and ethical realms of experience intersect during these occasions. Boundaries between performance and everyday frames are indistinct in a physical sense and in how participants relate to each other. This in turn feeds into the integration of the performances in participants’ ethical lives. Rather than a shifting between these three frames, I see mutual permeability as the basis for the sociality here.

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Horlor, S. (2019). Permeable Frames: Intersections of the Performance, the Everyday, and the Ethical in Chinese Street Singing. Ethnomusicology Forum, 28(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2019.1590725

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 26, 2019
Online Publication Date Mar 14, 2019
Publication Date 2019
Deposit Date Mar 17, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Ethnomusicology Forum
Print ISSN 1741-1912
Electronic ISSN 1741-1920
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 28
Issue 1
Pages 3-25
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2019.1590725
Keywords Frame analysis, street performance, Chinese pop, Wuhan

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