Introduction: Nomadism, Fragmentation, and Marginality - The Hong Kong Music Underground in the East Asian Context

Abstract

In music studies, fewer concepts are more fluid than the notion of "underground". In Sounds of the Underground, Stephen Graham points out that the term has been "[…] adopted by practitioners and accorded by critics across many different [music] genres as a marker of cultural distinction" (Graham 2016, p. vii). In the most vernacular sense of the term, one could say that a majority of music styles, artists or practices-whether D. Charrieras