Yiren Zhao
Position: Doctoral Student School/office: School of Music, Theatre and ArtEmail: yiren.zhao@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303432
Room: M3217
About Yiren Zhao
Yiren Zhao is a doctoral candidate in musicology. She is affiliated with the research projects Music and Human Bejings and ACCLAIM (Aesthetic, Culture and Media). The topic of her dissertation is Shaping the Meaning of Chinese Music Subcultures. In this research, she aims to figure out what are the meanings attached to music subcultures, such as metal, rap, rock, and punk, in the Chinese context and how are these shaped? As conclusions, she proposes the contextual, individual and musical meanings of Chinese music subcultures in Beijing.
Publications
Articles in journals
- Zhao, Y. (2023). Metal like a hermit: Situating the 'subcultural' of Chinese metal music in the Chinese context. Metal Music Studies, 9 (3), 351-357.
Conference papers
- Zhao, Y. (2022). "Punk lifts me up!": Shaping the meaning of Chinese punk subculture. Paper presented at Punk Scholars Network 9th Conference & Postgraduate Symposium, London, December 2-3, 2022.
- Zhao, Y. (2022). Shaping the meaning of Chinese music subcultures: Myth, modernity and identification. Paper presented at The Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, June 24-26, 2022.
- Zhao, Y. (2021). How can you not be rebellious? Chinese rock, context and modernity. Paper presented at The British Forum for Ethnomusicology Autumn Conference: Ethnomusicology in 2022 and Beyond, [DIGITAL], November 12-13,2021.
- Zhao, Y. (2021). The self-positioning of Chinese metal music. Paper presented at The International Conference Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges (KISMIF Conference 2021), Porto, July 6-10, 2021.
- Zhao, Y. (2020). Shaping the meaning of music subculture: A comparative study in Beijing and Stockholm. Paper presented at Musikforskning idag 2020 Conference, Lund, June 10, 2020.
- Zhao, Y. (2019). Music Subcultures and the Mainstream in China, 1979-2019. Paper presented at IASPM-CSTM Joint Conference 2019, Montréal, May 24-26, 2019.
- Zhao, Y. (2019). The embodiments of Chinese identity in Chinese black metal. Paper presented at The International Black Metal Theory Symposium, Ljubljana, April 18-19, 2019.
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Zhao, Y. (2023). Shaping the Meaning of Chinese Music Subcultures. (Doctoral dissertation). Örebro: Örebro University.