This chapter presents how Filipino musicians are included and excluded in the Australian music ecosystem—a space in which they constantly negotiate their creative, labour and migrant identities. Thisnegotiation is rooted in various tensions and liminalities that Filipinos in Australia experience as migrants and as musicians. To illustrate this further, this chapter draws on the concept of liminality toexamine the implications of in-betweenness—in society and the industry—as experienced by Filipinos in Australia. Moreover, I expand this concept through a term I refer to as plural liminalities based onbeing situated in two or multiple identities and positionalities as migrants, musicians, labourers, and outsiders. The situatedness and liminality experienced by Filipino migrant musicians lead to a moreprecarious integration in the policies and practices related to the creative economy and industries in Australia. As a consequence, they are enmeshed in the wider socio-political structure that facilitates theperpetuation of inequality and invisibility affecting Filipino musicians due to their status as migrants and migrant workers.

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Neither Here nor There: Liminalities and Precarity in the Australian Music Industry

  • Carljohnson Anacin

摘要

This chapter presents how Filipino musicians are included and excluded in the Australian music ecosystem—a space in which they constantly negotiate their creative, labour and migrant identities. Thisnegotiation is rooted in various tensions and liminalities that Filipinos in Australia experience as migrants and as musicians. To illustrate this further, this chapter draws on the concept of liminality toexamine the implications of in-betweenness—in society and the industry—as experienced by Filipinos in Australia. Moreover, I expand this concept through a term I refer to as plural liminalities based onbeing situated in two or multiple identities and positionalities as migrants, musicians, labourers, and outsiders. The situatedness and liminality experienced by Filipino migrant musicians lead to a moreprecarious integration in the policies and practices related to the creative economy and industries in Australia. As a consequence, they are enmeshed in the wider socio-political structure that facilitates theperpetuation of inequality and invisibility affecting Filipino musicians due to their status as migrants and migrant workers.