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

著名的法籍阿尔及利亚作曲家、表演者和活动家拉希德·塔哈（1958-2018）出生于阿尔及利亚的奥兰，10岁时移民法国。他主要融合了西方摇滚音乐流派和传统的阿拉伯/马格里布风格，他的职业生涯长达39年，在19张专辑中创作了250多首歌曲。他的煽动性、讽刺性和颠覆性的混合音乐（也有意识地选择以darjah（一种将阿拉伯语与法语融合在一起的阿尔及利亚方言）为主唱）、表演和身份使法国公众面对其对非融合移民的刻板印象，挑战了法国的摇滚音乐传统，同时边缘化了大多数阿拉伯语世界。运用一个新颖的跨学科理论框架，我的目标是探索他从阿尔及利亚移民到法国流亡的经历，以及他断言的身份——“永远是阿尔及利亚人，每天都是法国人”——是如何在他融合音乐流派（摇滚、朋克、电子乐与raï和其他阿拉伯/马格里布风格）和终身行动主义中表现出来的。虽然对来自后殖民或法语国家的音乐艺术家的研究有所发现，但关于塔哈的学术研究很少，而且仅限于后殖民斗争或抵制边缘化和种族主义的“阿拉伯性”和“文化杂交”的概念，特别是在他早期的职业生涯中，20世纪80年代受朋克影响的阿拉伯摇滚乐队Carte de ssamjour（“居留卡”）。事实上，目前还没有研究对他的音乐、表演、视觉表现以及他在整个职业生涯中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中。

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.