Jeroen Groenewegen
Research Interests研究方向:
Chinese Popular
Music from the 1920s to tomorrow, from Shanghai to Hong Kong,
Taipei and Peking, as folksong, opera, rock, improvization and techno, as
sound-image-text.
Current Research目前研究:
The Performance
of Identity in Chinese Popular Music
This research compares three contemporary musical acts that are active in
urban areas
all over China, mostly in Beijing and Hong Kong. Pop diva Faye Wong王菲
has transformed the Cantonese and Mandarin pop (canto / mandopop) scenes.
The Beijing-based rock band Second Hand Rose
二手玫瑰
combine western rock with the Northeast-Chinese stage tradition of
two-people-taking-turns
二人轉,
in a genre I call sinified rock. The singer-songwriter Xiao He
小河
(He Guofeng) experiments with global traditions such as folk, jazz, Latin,
world music, mixing them with local traditions. I analyze the
performance of identity in these musics from five distinct yet interrelated
perspectives: place, genre transgressions, sex-gender-desire, music theater
and creation.
Supervisors: Prof. dr.
M. van
Crevel
柯雷
and dr. W. van der
Meer
The Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS) at
Leiden University powered by the
Hulsewe' Wazniewski Foundation.
Activities活動:
field
research:
Beijing (4 September – 2 November).
presentation:
European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) titled
Exploring Tourism and Planting Trees: Comparing Musical Performances of
Glocalization in Zhao Benshan
趙本山
and Lin Sheng-xiang
林生祥.
interpeting:
Julidans:
A Summer Festival of International, Contemporary Dance
七月舞蹈:夏季國際現代舞節
an request of
Borneoco,
for Zhang
Xian
張獻,
Yin Yi
殷漪
and Nannan
囡囡
(Zuhe Niao
組合嬲)
and Li Ning
李凝.
encyclopedia
entrees: “Mandopop國語流行音樂,”
“Cantopop
粵語流行音樂,”
“Northwest Wind
西北風,”
“Chinese Rock
中國搖滾,”
“Songs for the Masses大眾歌曲”
and “New Folk Tunes新民謠”
for volume 11 of
the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Genres of Asia
and Pacific Origin.
article:
“Explosive Acts: Beijing’s Punk Rock Scene in the Postmodern World of 2007”,
whose analysis of the punk rock scene in terms of the transfer of energy is
inspired by Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power.
The article is co-authored with Dr. Andrew Field and is to be published in
the Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society.
article:
China focus
in the Dutch
mixed: world music
magazine.
public forum:
“Cultural
Cooperation with China,”
with Alex
Adriaansens (V2_ Instituut voor Onstabiele Media), Frank Kouwenhoven
(European Foundation For Chinese Music Research), Thomas Widdershoven /
Nikki Gonnissen (ontwerpbureau Thonik), Eduard Nazarski (directeur Amnesty
International Nederland), Martijn Sanders (intendant Netherlands China Arts
Foundation), artists Roosje Klab and Kaleb de Groot, and
reporter
Frénk van der Linden.
The event is sponsored and organized by Felix Meritis and Stichting
Internationale Culturele Activiteiten, both of which have strong ties with
the Dutch government, especially the foreign affairs ministry.
2008
radio:
a series on different aspects of Chinese music in cooperation with Wang
Yiwen
王依文,
in Mandarin for the Amsterdam-based station
CRTV.
Episodes can be listened online through both CRTV’s archive and
Wang Yiwen’s site,
and include “New Chinese Folk in Beijing
北京.
城市新民謠,”
“Music Producer Zhang Yadong
音樂人張亞東,”
“Taiwan Hakka Music
台灣客家的聲音”
and “Taiwan Aboriginal Music
台灣原住民的歌聲.”
interpreting:
assistance during editing of the IKON
TV-series
Paul Rosenmöller and...China:
the Price of Growth.
completion first draft
of chapter 6 (Creation and Organizing) of the research project The
Performance of Identity in Chinese Popular Music,
in which the creational process of Chinese popular music is described in
terms derived from the ethology of Deleuze and Guattari and evolutionary
theory.
interpreting:
International
Filmfestival Rotterdam
(羅特丹國際電影節)
for Wang Bing
王兵,
Hou Hsiao-hsien
侯孝賢,
Tsai Ming-liang
蔡明亮,
Li Ruijun
李睿珺,
Robin Weng Shouming
翁首鳴,
Xie Fei
謝飛,
Huang Shuqin
黃蜀芹
and Teng Wenji
滕文驥.
Assisting the Dutch broadcasting cooperation VPRO with editing.
2007
fieldwork: Beijing (25 April - 18 October), Hong Kong (July) and Taiwan
(August). Interviews with Zhang Yadong
張亞東,
Beibei
貝貝,
Katie Chan Jiaying
陳家瑛,
Pannai
巴奈,
Lin Sheng-xiang
林生祥
and many others.
completion first draft of chapter 4 (Sex-Gender-Desire) of the
research project The Performance of Identity in Chinese Popular Music,
in which the attraction of and the gender roles offered by Chinese popular
music are described in psycho-analytic terms inspired by the work of Slavoj
Žižek.
interpreting:
Dutch Electronic Art Festival (荷蘭電子藝術節)
for Lu Jie
卢杰
(in debate with
Henk Oosterling), Aaijiao
徐文恺 and
Ellen Pao
鮑藹倫
interpreting:
International Filmfestival
Rotterdam
(羅特丹國際電影節)
for Jia Zhangke
賈樟柯,
Li Jixian
李继贤,
Peng Shan
彭珊,
Tsai Ming-liang
蔡明亮,
Wang Yiren王笠人
and Ying Liang
應亮.
2006
article: “R&B in de Drakenvuist Stijl” in a special of Geography,
a magazine of the Royal Dutch Geography Society (KNAG),
titled China from Marginal to Global Player (Geography 15:9). The
article discusses the inclusion of Chinese musical elements in popular
music, while it also questions how Taiwan fits into Chinese culture and
Peking punks in global culture.
interpreting:
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
2006
(IDFA
阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片節).
fieldwork: Beijing (24 August - 11 October) and Hong Kong (11 October
- 24 November). Residence at Peking University (北京大學)
and Hong Kong Chinese University (香港中文大學).
interpreting:
Poetry International
(詩歌國際)
in Rotterdam, for Han Dong
韓東
and Bao Yun.
completion first draft of chapter 2 (Place) of the research project
The Performance of Identity in Chinese Popular Music, which inquires
into the Chineseness of Chinese popular music, or better: of sinophone
popular music
華語流行音樂,
paying attention to its local, national, regional, global and otherworldly
aspirations.
interpreting:
International Filmfestival
Rotterdam
(羅特丹國際電影節)
for Jia Zhangke
賈樟柯,
Han Jie
韓杰,
Hou Hsiao-hsien
侯孝賢,
Hou Ji-jan
侯季然,
Peng Shan
彭珊,
Yao Hung-i
姚宏易
and Ying Liang
應亮.
online article:
"Chinese Popmuziek: Een
Overzicht"
(Chinese Pop Music: An Overview) in the Dutch website Gele Draak.
2005
research:
employment as a Research Trainee at the Research School for Asian, African
and Amerindian Studies (CNWS) of Leiden University for the research project
The Performance of Identity in Chinese Popular Music under the
supervision of Prof. Dr. Maghiel van Crevel (Chinese Studies, Leiden
University).
programming and production: The Amsterdam China Festival:
ChinaPop
中國流行
in Melkweg and Paradiso with Cold Fairyland
冷酷仙境,
FM3, Monokino, Muma
木馬
(& Mianmian
棉棉),
Second Hand Rose
二手玫瑰,
SUBS, Wang Lei
王磊,
Yan Jun
顏峻
& Wu Quan
武權,
DJ Yang Bing
楊兵
and Zuoxiao Zuzhou
左小祖咒.
Information on this festival is available through this website.
interviewed: “DJ
Wang Lei is NiuBi”
by Carolien Dircken in Mare. The article can be accessed online.
article: promotion of ChinaPop (Dutch).
interpreting:
Vrije Akademie Den Haag
(海牙自由藝術學院)
for Li Zhanyang李占洋,
Qu Xiaoru
曲笑儒,
Zeng Tu曾途
and Zhou Xiaohu
周啸虎
.
graduation: MA thesis defended at Leiden University, titled:
Tongue
舌頭樂隊: Making
Sense of Underground Rock, 1997-2004. The thesis can be accessed in
full text through this website. It
analyses the multiple semantic and non-semantic layers of a single
performance of the band Tongue, and relates these to the social settings of
the Beijing rock scene.
2004
interpreting: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2004 (IDFA, 國際紀錄片節阿姆斯特丹) for Wang Dongdong 王冬冬, Zhou Yu and others.
2003-2004
fieldwork: Capital Normal University (首都师范大学) for a period of 10 months, while also working in the Beijing rock bar Nameless Highland 無名高地.
2003
article: "Miserable Faith 痛苦的信仰" (Dutch) in ChinaNu.
2002-2003
language acquisition at Beijing Language and Cultural University (北京語言大學) for a period of 10 months.
2000-2001
making music in the remote town of Dinxperlo as the drummer in an alternative rock band.
1998
enrolling in Leiden University, Chinese Languages and Cultures.
graduation from Interconfesionele Scholengroep Westland in Naaldwijk.
Contact Information聯係方式:
Jeroen Groenewegen
rinses AT gmail,com
071-527 4135
postal adress郵箱:
CNWS (Jeroen
Groenewegen)
Nonnensteeg 1-3
PO Box 9515, 2300 RA
Netherlands
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