Voices from the Margins: The Cyborg Concept Album

这个博士项目研究了半机械人概念专辑，以回答以下问题：半机械人概念专辑如何作为一个空间，通过它被边缘化的社区获得跨媒介的声音？我的目标是研究概念专辑以何种方式为电子人的政治表演提供了一个动态的、跨学科的场所。该项目对来自边缘的声音的关注标志着对概念专辑的学术辩论的介入，这些争论主要集中在它在前卫摇滚中的发展，忽视了女性、非二元、酷儿和BIPOC艺术家的遗产。为了回答这个研究问题，该项目有三个主要目标：1)调查机器人是如何在概念专辑中表现出来的；2)概念专辑如何呈现超越二元、以人为中心思维的半机械人叙事；3)机器人的化身是如何被性别化、酷儿化和种族化的。这些目标反映在三管齐下的方法方法中，它结合了音乐、叙事和具体的表演方法。这将被用来支持cyborg概念专辑通过叙事、体现和声音挑战以人为中心的二元思维的论点。该项目以女权主义和酷儿电子人理论为指导；案例研究将从Arca的《Kick》（2020-2021）系列、Grimes的《Miss Anthropocene》（2020）、Janelle Monáe的《Metropolis》（2008-2013）系列和《Dirty Computer》（2018）、Little Simz的《Sometimes I Might be内向》（2021）和《寂静仙境》（2016）中选取。

This PhD project investigates the cyborg concept album in order to answer the following question: How does the cyborg concept album figure as a space through which marginalised communities acquire a transmedial voice? I aim to examine in which ways the concept album offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary site for the political performativity of the cyborg. The project's focus on voices from the margins marks an intervention in academic debates on the concept album, which have primarily been focused on its development within progressive rock, neglecting to account for the legacy of female, non-binary, queer, and BIPOC artists. In order to answer this research question, the project has three main objectives: 1) to investigate how the cyborg is manifested in the concept album; 2) how the concept album presents cyborg narratives, which transcend binary, human-centred thinking; 3) how cyborg embodiment is gendered, queered and racialised. These objectives are reflected in a three-pronged methodological approach, which combines musical, narratological, and embodied performative approaches. This will be employed to support the argument that the cyborg concept album challenges human-centred, binary thinking through narrative, embodiment and voice. The project is informed by feminist and queer cyborg theory; case studies will be taken from Arca's Kick (2020-2021) series, Grimes' Miss Anthropocene (2020), Janelle Monáe's Metropolis (2008-2013) series and Dirty Computer (2018), and Little Simz' Sometimes I Might be Introvert (2021) and Stillness in Wonderland (2016).