TY - SER AU - Schweig,Meredith TI - "Young Soldiers, One day we will change Taiwan": Masculinity Politics in the Taiwan Rap Scene. T2 - Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology ; PY - 2016/// CY - Illinois-XXU : PB - University of Illinois Press, KW - GENEROS MUSICALES KW - MUSICA POPULAR KW - FOLKLORE N2 - This article explores the gender practices of Taiwan's male-dominated rap scene, with particular attention to the sonic, textual, and ritual reverbera- tions of Confucian ideologies. In the context of shifting gender roles driven by dramatic sociopolitical and economic change over the course of the past two and a half decades, I argue that artists reimagine and refashion Confu- cian gender regimes and notions of intra-group hierarchy to create critical new spaces for male sociality, avenues for male self-empowerment, and op- portunities for the articulation of masculine identities not otherwise audible in Taiwan's popular music ER -