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

著名的法国-阿尔及利亚作曲家，表演者和活动家Rachid Taha（1958-2018）出生于阿尔及利亚奥兰，10岁时移民到法国。他融合了西方摇滚乐和传统的阿拉伯/马格里布风格，他的职业生涯跨越了39年，在19张专辑中创作了250多首歌曲。他的挑衅性，讽刺性和经常颠覆性的混合音乐（也有意识地选择主要用darja-一种阿尔及利亚方言将阿拉伯语与法语融合在一起），表演和身份面对法国公众对非融合移民的刻板印象，挑战法国的摇滚音乐惯例，同时将大多数阿拉伯语世界边缘化。采用一种新的跨学科的理论框架，我的目标是探索他的经验，从阿尔及利亚移民和流亡法国，以及断言的身份-“阿尔及利亚永远，法国的日常”-是在他的音乐流派（摇滚，朋克，电子与rahabiti和其他阿拉伯/马格里布风格）和终身的行动主义的合并代表。 虽然对来自后殖民或法语国家的音乐艺术家的研究被发现，但对塔哈的学术研究很少，仅限于后殖民斗争或抵抗边缘化和种族主义方面的“阿拉伯性”和métissage（文化混杂）的概念，特别是在他1980年代的早期职业生涯中，受朋克影响的阿拉伯摇滚乐队Carte de Séjour（“居住卡”）。事实上，目前还没有任何研究来考察他的音乐、表演、视觉表现以及他整个职业生涯中移民经历的影响。因此，我的项目将是对塔哈全部作品的第一次全面分析，并试图在不断发展的文化地理学领域中阐明其文化和政治意义。

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.