life in text and stereo sound
diverse traces is an ongoing project on the experience of revisionist histories on taiwan, from a musical perspective
one way that we might productively understand disputes over ethnic chinese either feeling entitled to participate in or appropriate taiwanese indigenous dance is to consider an issue that seems to Continue Reading →
The past few days I’ve been cleaning up some files–as you’ve probably noted from the recycling of old poems and papers today (sorry!). But my writing has also turned to Continue Reading →
toward another model presentational performance, however, is not the only field of musical performance. As described by Turino, there are at least four different fields of musical practice, the performance Continue Reading →
Contemporary ‘Amis songwriters such as Suming and Ado aim at language revitalization through rebranding. Both attempt to reevaluate Sowal no ‘Amis, rejecting language ideologies that consign indigenous languages to rural Continue Reading →
We are used to the idea that language is a form of cultural patrimony. Many arguments for endangered language preservation, in fact, begin from this premise, which defines languages as Continue Reading →
