Rachid Taha: A Migrant's Voice. Music, Place, Performance and Identity 1979-2018

著名的法裔阿尔及利亚词曲作者、表演者和活动家拉希德·塔哈(Rachid Taha，1958-2018)出生于阿尔及利亚奥兰，10岁时移民到法国。他的职业生涯跨越39年，在19张专辑中创作了超过250首歌曲，主要融合了西方摇滚音乐流派和传统的阿拉伯/马格里比风格。他富有挑衅性、讽刺意味、往往具有颠覆性的混合音乐(也有意识地选择主要用达尔加方言演唱，这是一种融合阿拉伯语和法语的阿尔及利亚方言)、表演和身份认同，让法国公众与其对未融入社会的移民的刻板印象对峙，挑战了法国的摇滚乐传统，同时边缘化了大多数阿拉伯世界。采用一种新颖的跨学科理论框架，我旨在探索他从阿尔及利亚移民和流亡法国的经历以及他所宣称的身份-“阿尔及利亚人永远，每天都是法国人”-如何体现在他将音乐流派(摇滚、朋克和电子音乐与Raii和其他阿拉伯/马格里比风格)和终身激进主义相融合中。虽然对来自后殖民国家或法语国家(法语国家)的音乐艺术家的研究很少，但关于塔哈的学术研究很少，仅限于后殖民斗争或对边缘化和种族主义的抵抗方面的“阿拉伯性”和“混血”概念，特别是在他20世纪80年代受朋克影响的阿拉伯摇滚乐队Carte de Séjour(‘居住证’)的早期职业生涯中。事实上，在他的整个职业生涯中，还没有人对他的音乐、表演、视觉表现和他的移民经历的影响进行研究。因此，我的项目将是对塔哈作品的第一次全面分析，并试图将其文化和政治意义置于不断发展的文化地理学领域。

Prominent French-Algerian songwriter, performer and activist Rachid Taha (1958-2018) was born in Oran, Algeria, migrating to France aged 10. Primarily fusing Western rock music genres and traditional Arab/Maghrebi styles, his career spanned 39 years amounting to over 250 songs across 19 albums. His provocative, ironic and often subversive hybridised music (also consciously choosing to primarily sing in darja-an Algerian dialect merging Arabic with French), performance and identity confronted the French public with its stereotype of the non-integrated migrant, challenged France's rock music conventions while simultaneously marginalising the majority of the Arab-speaking world. Employing a novel interdisciplinary theoretical framework, I aim to explore how his experience of migration from Algeria and exile in France as well as asserted identity-"Algerian forever, French everyday" -is represented in his merging of music genres (rock, punk, and electronica with raï and other Arab/Maghrebi styles) and life-long activism. While studies on music artists originating from post-colonial or French-speaking (Francophone) countries are found, scholarship on Taha is sparse and limited to notions of 'Arabness' and métissage (cultural hybridity) in terms of a post-colonial struggle or resistance to marginalisation and racism, particularly during his early career in the 1980s' punk-influenced Arab rock band Carte de Séjour ('Residence Card'). In fact, no research has yet been undertaken examining his music, performance, visual presentation and impact of his migrant experience throughout his career. My project would therefore be the first comprehensive analysis of Taha's oeuvre and seeks to situate its cultural and political significance within the ever-developing field of cultural geography.