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Through participant observation of rehearsals, teaching sessions, community festivals, and international performances, the research focuses on a micro-ethnographic thick description of the musicians' embodied practices, including playing postures, aural habits, and non-verbal interactions. The findings reveal that musical style is shaped through \u201cembodied practice\u201d and immersion in the local soundscape, giving rise to a distinctive \u201cMacao taste\u201d (Macao wei). The music society performs strategic cultural identity work across different social arenas through repertoire selection and embodied narratives. Furthermore, the stratified repertoire and original works such as\n                    <jats:italic>Shengshi Haojiang<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\n                    <jats:italic>Prosperous Macao<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) constitute a living sound archive that documents and participates in local cultural-historical narratives and identity construction.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1856681","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,17]],"date-time":"2026-07-17T05:44:05Z","timestamp":1784267045000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Macao Guangdong music through the lens of ethnography of musical performance"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"FanLe","family":"Kong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology","place":["Macao SAR, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhong","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology","place":["Macao SAR, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sun Yat-sen University","place":["Guangzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"YueRu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Macao Chinese Orchestra","place":["Macao, Macao SAR, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","volume-title":"Verbal Art as Performance","author":"Bauman","year":"1977"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"77","DOI":"10.1191\/1478088706qp063oa","article-title":"Using thematic analysis in psychology","volume":"3","author":"Braun","year":"2006","journal-title":"Qual. 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