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<p>Cultural production scholars have found that race underpins minority artists' access to creative and artistic fields and informs the representation and evaluation of these artists and their art. While this approach demonstrates that racialized oppression in the arts is entrenched in social and economic structures, there is still room to explore how racialized actors communicate anti-racist meanings. Drawing on cultural pragmatics, this paper develops a concept of the <i>performance of racialized (cultural) difference</i> to explore how artists navigate—<i>comply with</i>, <i>resist</i> and <i>obscure</i>—difference through their artistic practice. The paper contributes to the study of the arts by shifting our attention from the conditions of cultural production to the art, with the aim of showing how classical musicians negotiate (racial) difference through various elements of their musical performance. It also advances critical cultural studies of race and the arts by arguing that racialized cultural difference, as the basis for a distinct cultural identity, becomes the organizing principle of these artistic performances in which actors are racially ascribed. The concept of the performance of cultural difference is applicable to other contexts in which cultural producers are perceived through the interlocking axes of difference, i.e., gender, age, class, and disability.</p>

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Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music

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    2025年6月28日

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  • Beata M. Kowalczyk

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Cultural production scholars have found that race underpins minority artists' access to creative and artistic fields and informs the representation and evaluation of these artists and their art. While this approach demonstrates that racialized oppression in the arts is entrenched in social and economic structures, there is still room to explore how racialized actors communicate anti-racist meanings. Drawing on cultural pragmatics, this paper develops a concept of the performance of racialized (cultural) difference to explore how artists navigate—comply with, resist and obscure—difference through their artistic practice. The paper contributes to the study of the arts by shifting our attention from the conditions of cultural production to the art, with the aim of showing how classical musicians negotiate (racial) difference through various elements of their musical performance. It also advances critical cultural studies of race and the arts by arguing that racialized cultural difference, as the basis for a distinct cultural identity, becomes the organizing principle of these artistic performances in which actors are racially ascribed. The concept of the performance of cultural difference is applicable to other contexts in which cultural producers are perceived through the interlocking axes of difference, i.e., gender, age, class, and disability.