pigs and rites of passage
everyone gets a three day weekend for double ten, so it’s a good day to gather one’s age mates, friends, and community elders for a celebration. one needs the assistance Continue Reading →
Category: taiwan soundscapes project
the taiwan soundscapes project documents and analyzes the sonic environment of contemporary taiwan. the goals of the project are to motivate further research on taiwanese public culture, religious practices, and vernacular aesthetics. eventually, the project will approach historical questions as well as current ones. the project will contribute to understandings of sound and subjectivity, mass media and citizenship, popular music and placemaking.
katiposan: a change in wind
nothing could prepare me for how sudden tipos, the north wind, arrived, screaming through the betel palms and rattling the steel garage doors and house windows. with the shift in Continue Reading →
decolonizing inter-asian cultural studies? a few inchoate questions on unclear thinking (1)
i’ve just returned from the meetings of the interasian popular music studies association, which were held this year in chiang mai, thailand. as in interasian cultural studies more generally, one Continue Reading →
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 →
changing sound of taiwanese mandarin
recently, i have been wondering if there is a vowel shift happening in taiwanese mandarin. certainly, youngish people today speak a version of mandarin that sounds different from the norms Continue Reading →
