The Cultural Political Significance of Form: On the Musical Practices of the New Worker's Art Troupe
Abstract
The paper examines the musical practice of the New Worker's Art Troupe from the perspective of cultural study, and focuses on the cultural political significance of forms in their practice. As a new kind of organization, the New Worker's Art Troupe purposely keeps a defiant posture to distance itself from cultural industry. They showcase many popular music works to the grass roots free of charge and their music works are usually imbued with keen sense of reality, adopting folk song's melodies and singing in dialects, and the paper observes that their musical practice is realizing the concept of "people's literature and art" and that this points to a new direction for the literature and art's development.
First Page
150
Last Page
160
Recommended Citation
Guo, Chunlin. 2016. "The Cultural Political Significance of Form: On the Musical Practices of the New Worker's Art Troupe." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (3): pp.150-160. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss3/14
