{"id":4093,"date":"2024-04-11T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2024-05-21T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T21:47:54","slug":"book-talk-renegade-rhymes-with-meredith-schweig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/2024\/04\/11\/book-talk-renegade-rhymes-with-meredith-schweig\/","title":{"rendered":"[May 16] Book Talk: Renegade Rhymes with Meredith Schweig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Thursday, May 16 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online via Zoom<\/strong>, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Meredith Schweig to discuss her newest book <em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW233091565 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW233091565 BCX4\">Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan <\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW233091565 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW233091565 BCX4\">(University of Chicago Press, 2022).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW92632140 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92632140 BCX4\">Renegade Rhymes<\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW92632140 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92632140 BCX4\"> invites readers into Taiwan\u2019s vibrant underground hip-hop scene to explore the social, cultural, and political dynamics of life in a post-authoritarian democracy. Beginning in the immediate aftermath of martial law (1949-1987), the book follows Taiwan\u2019s earliest rappers and DJs as they critiqued the island\u2019s political system, spun tales from their perspectives as members of marginalized ethnic communities, and reimagined previously suppressed local musical forms. A series of ethnographic and historical chapters trace an arc between these earliest interventions and the innovations of present-day musicians, who grapple with ongoing existential uncertainty imposed by the island\u2019s ambiguous geopolitical status and accelerating <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW92632140 BCX4\">neoliberalization<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92632140 BCX4\">. The book argues that rap artists past and present configure post-authoritarianism as a creative political intervention, whose ultimate <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92632140 BCX4\">objective<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW92632140 BCX4\"> is the reordering of epistemic hierarchies, power structures, and gender relations.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW92632140 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Register with the QR code below or at our <a href=\"http:\/\/uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com\/renegade-rhymes-with-meredith-schweig\/\">Ticketleap page by clicking here.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com\/renegade-rhymes-with-meredith-schweig\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3904 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/bit.ly_3I7U2so-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/bit.ly_3I7U2so-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/bit.ly_3I7U2so-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/bit.ly_3I7U2so.png 656w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/bit.ly_3I7U2so-375x375.png 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/02\/bit.ly_3I7U2so-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com\/renegade-rhymes-with-meredith-schweig\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4094 size-mug-shot alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/03\/Schweig_2021-headshot-150x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"><strong>Meredith Schweig<\/strong> completed her MA and PhD in ethnomusicology at Harvard University, where she also received her BA in Music and East Asian Studies. Schweig is <span class=\"TextRun SCXW145347772 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW145347772 BCX4\">associate professor of ethnomusicology at Emory University and is the <\/span><\/span>recipient of a 2023-2024 Scholar Grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Previously, she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Taiwan (2020-2021), and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Hyperstudio Fellow at MIT (2013-2015). Her 2016 article \u201c\u2018Young Soldiers, One Day We Will Change Taiwan\u2019: Masculinity Politics in the Taiwan Rap Scene\u201d was awarded both the Marcia Herndon Prize and the Jaap Kunst Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. Her 2014 article &#8220;Hoklo Hip-Hop: Re-signifying Rap as Local Narrative Tradition in Taiwan\u201d was awarded the Rulan Chao Pian Publication Prize from the Association for Chinese Music Research. S<span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">he is working on a second book which explores questions about vocality, agency, and transmedia storytelling through a study of global pop icon Teresa Teng.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">This event was made possible by the generous support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 16 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online via Zoom, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Meredith Schweig to discuss her newest book Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan (University of Chicago Press, 2022). 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