Musical and Socio-Cultural Negotiations of Filipino Identity
摘要
This chapter explains Filipino migrant experiences and musicians’ identity in multicultural Australia through the lens of transnationalism, translocality, and capital. Filipino migrant musicians use their social and cultural capitals to develop material and immaterial resources in their new environment, including the ways they experience everyday life in performance spaces and communities. Furthermore, I foreground transnationalism and translocality as analytical tools in understanding such experiences as labour and musical migrants, particularly how these migrants are situated and their socio-cultural identities across geographical borders. More than just an economic activity, this chapter shows that cover music performance is also embedded with social, cultural and symbolic values. Therefore, these economic, social and cultural aspects of cover performance are also created and utilised as capital to further navigate the music ecosystem of their new home.