Nathanel Amar
Présentation
Nathanel Amar’s research delves into Sinophone subcultures and popular culture. His first monograph, Scream for Life: The Invention of a Punk Counter-culture in Contemporary China (Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire) was published in French and won the 2023 IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music) book award. Currently, his research centres on the circulation and (re)appropriation of music within the Sinophone world. He guest-edited two special issues of China Perspectives on Sinophone musical world in 2019 and 2020.
Nathanel served as the Director of the Taipei office of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) from 2019 to 2023. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong from 2017 to 2019.
Committed to making his research accessible to the broader public, Nathanel maintains a digital archive of alternative music in contemporary China, available at: https://scream4life.hypotheses.org
Domaines de recherche
Publications
Publications
Scream for Life. L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populairePresses universitaires de Rennes, 2022, 978-2-7535-8248-4. ⟨10.4000/13oho⟩ |
Legitimising Musical Taste: “Vulgar Internet Songs” from “Mice Love Rice” to PG-OneInternet Vulgarities in China, 1, Routledge, pp.50-67, 2026, ⟨10.4324/9781003698067-4⟩ |
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À la recherche de la beauté. DanmeiQuand la Chine parle, Les Belles Lettres, pp.191-198, 2025, 2251456732 |
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Les rouges de l’internet. WanghongQuand la Chine parle, Les Belles Lettres, pp.15-24, 2025, 2251456732 |
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Petite viande fraîche. XiaoxianrouQuand la Chine parle, Les Belles Lettres, pp.185-190, 2025, 2251456732 |
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Beyond Musical, Political, and Linguistic Boundaries: The Influence of the Hong Kong Rock Band Beyond in the PRC in the 1990s and Its LegacySinophone Studies Across Disciplines, Columbia University Press, pp.281-298, 2024, ⟨10.7312/chia20862-016⟩ |
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Anarchy in the PRC": Anarchist practices and references in the Chinese punk movementSmash the System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance, Active Distribution, pp.407-433, 2022, 9781914567131 |
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江湖大逃亡(Un)Locked: Memories of Wuhan, SCALE, pp.27-36, 2021, 1551-3483 |
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Radical Participation: The Politics of Performance in Chinese Punk-Rock ConcertsFractured Scenes. Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia, Springer Singapore, pp.189-203, 2021, ⟨10.1007/978-981-15-5913-6_14⟩ |
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Soul of Chinese Cops". Les punks chinois face à la policeDisorder. Histoire sociale des mouvements punk et post-punk, Éditions Mélanie Seteun, pp.181-198, 2019, ⟨10.4000/books.ms.1607⟩ |
La communauté punk en Chine : entre réinterprétation d'une contre-culture et dissidenceBernard Lacroix; Xavier Landrin; Anne-Marie Pailhès; Caroline Rolland-Diamond. Les contre-cultures. Genèses, circulations, pratiques, Editions Syllepse, 2015, 9782849504727 |
Sinophone Musical Worlds (2): The Politics of ChinesenessChina perspectives, 121, 2020, ⟨10.4000/chinaperspectives.10046⟩ |
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Sinophone Musical Worlds (1): Circulations of Sounds, Affects and IdentitiesChina perspectives, 118, 2019, ⟨10.4000/chinaperspectives.9298⟩ |
Scream for Life : usages politiques de la culture en Chine : échanges et résistance au sein de communautés alternatives : le cas des punks et des cinéastes indépendantsScience politique. Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Sciences Po, 2015. Français. ⟨NNT : 2015IEPP0037⟩ |
Xu Jinglei, nomos de la modernité2012 |