Garbage, Music, and Environmental Sustainability in Contemporary Taiwan
Referent
Prof. Dr. Nancy Guy (University of California, San Diego)
Datum und Zeit
05. Mai 2022, 16:15 - 18:00 Uhr
Inhalt
This talk focuses on references to garbage and its pickup heard in popular music from the 1980s through the 2020s. These pieces demonstrate some of the ways in which everyday practices aimed at managing household waste have seeped into a wide range of sensibilities. It will be argued that a pervasive awareness in Taiwan of garbage and its collection has contributed to a marked cognizance of environmental protection. The immediate physicality and musicality of Taiwan's garbage collection routine works to keep the long emergency of waste disposal in the public's imagination. The evereyday engagement with waste, including aurally through garbage truck music, is no doubt partly responsible for Taiwan's success at reducing household waste and for it being heralded by the New York Times as "an island of green in Asia" and for the Wall Street Journal declaring Taiwanese the "world's geniuses of garbage disposal."
Ort
Universität Zürich, Asien-Orient-Institut, Raum ZUB 314, Zürichbergstrasse 4, 8032 Zürich
Organisation
Asien-Orient-Institut - Sinologie
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