tradition and (post)colonial circulation
now that the kiloma’an season is over, i’m finishing the paper on malikoda and (post)colonial circulation. much of the text you will recognize from previous posts, but feel free to Continue Reading →
Category: musicians and social movements
holding the hand of the other
i’m working these days on a paper for IASPM’s inter-asia music conference. the next few postings will be drafts, ideas, and other work toward the paper. please comment! —— the Continue Reading →
book review: faudree 2013 _singing for the dead_
now that the semester is over, i’ve been reading some new titles in my discipline. one of the most interesting is by a scholar at brown, who straddles ethnomusicology and Continue Reading →
a demo
one of the perils (but also pleasures!) of ethnographic fieldwork is that one gets caught up in other people’s projects. recently, one of these “other projects” has been the u.s. Continue Reading →
intersections of songwriting and anthropology 人類學跟作曲的交叉點
i’m convinced that songwriters and ethnographers have a great deal to talk about and to learn from each other. figuring out how to facilitate this conversation has become one of my questions as i teach and do research
我深深感到，歌手和人類學學者，應該有很多的話題可以聊，更進一步說，我們互相學習的空間，顯者很大。要如何實現人類學和作曲的對話？這也是值得探討的問題 Continue Reading →
