other desires for the other
here’s an excerpt, plus a pdf of a longer excerpt of some of my recent work in progress, “other desires for the other: erotic narratives and indigenous cosmopolitanism on taiwan.” Continue Reading →
Tag: “indigenous music”
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 →
preservation and transmission: a participatory approach
Overall, my question was “what if the musical practices that we encounter and that we want to transmit cannot fit neatly into presentational forms or recordings?” Then we need to have a much different set of methods than those borrowed from typical musical education (aimed at presentation), stage performance, and recording (yes, even ethnomusicological field recording). Figuring out what those methods might be was the topic of the conversation I wanted to have with my colleagues at NTTU 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 →
a question of diffusion
I know, diffusion is about the least interesting topic to most anthropologists or ethnomusicologists these days, but questions about the distribution of musical forms might tell us something about how groups form and maintain themselves through time
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