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| Jingxuan Zhang, MusicologyEthnomusicology phd student 张景宣(Zhang Jingxuan) is a geographic and disciplinary drifter who remains deeply attached to the world through the multi-sensorial materialities of the body as it mediates, translates, and puts into conversation the the pleasures and frustrations of touch, proprioception, sound and affect. Growing up in the neo-colonial practices of western classical music in the wake of China's turn toward capitalism from the late 1970s, I now find myself in a dialogic relationship with those histories through the decolonial praxis pathbroken and pathled by the activism and scholarship of queer women of color, indigenous water and land protectors, and Black diasporic peoples. Spending the latter part of childhood as a Chinese immigrant in the "apolitical" atmosphere of a white American midwestern suburb, I am unfortunately influenced by the model minority myth which obfuscates the variously classed, raced, and gendered east and southeast Asian diasporas, by weaponizing the highly educated and ambitious migrant flows cultivated by neoliberal globalism and of which my family was part. I am still trying to deconstruct these violent received notions which grows in my body.
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