林志豪 X 王辰威, 寻找新加坡之声

What kind of music can represent Singapore? This episode of “Art Chat” invites Assoc Prof Lum Chee Ho and Wang Chenwei to discuss their thoughts on how local musicians search for identity in Singapore’s multicultural environment.

In his 2019 book “Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Singapore”, Assoc Prof Lum Chee-Hoo from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University interviewed several local musical groups performing original or fusion works, such as SAtheCollective and NADI Singapura, discussing the dynamic relationship between music, multiculturalism and national identity.

The search for the “Singapore sound” is a challenging quest, and we are all working hard towards it. However, the real reward often comes from the process of searching, rather than whether we arrive at a definite answer.

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