Many thanks to our hardworking editors, Christian Grüny and Brandon Farnsworth, for bringing to the finish line our new collected volume, “New Music and Institutional Critique” From the blurb: “This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music’s… Continue reading
“Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore” will finally come out this month as a chapter in the collection: “Entangled Performance Histories.” In April 2020, I was lost in an exciting writing project, oblivious to the world shutting down to a global pandemic. I… Continue reading
SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia issue 6.1 is now out! Many thanks to Roger Nelson, Eva Ben, and Annie Jael Kwan for the thoughtful editing of this special issue. I contributed a short ‘rumination’ article entitled “Dis/Obedience Performed” about my conversations with friends, Therese… Continue reading
I was sitting at the Westergasfabriek last night watching the Pelargos Quartet play aboard and to the accompaniment of helicopters juddering over Amsterdam in Stockhausen’s opera, Aus Licht when I received a text message announcing that I won the ASCA 2019 Best Article award! I did not even think I… Continue reading
Volume 6 Issue 2 of Popular Entertainment Studies Journal is now out. The special issue is entitled, “Negotiating the Entertainment Business: Theatrical Brokers at the Turn of the 20th Century”. My article, “Brokering Sonic Modernities: migrant Manila musicians in the Asia Pacific, 1881-1948”, is included in the issue. You can… Continue reading