Heather Maclachlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 183945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Maclachlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Maclachlan |
| SIGNATURE | MACLACHLAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dayton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Church Music Leaders in the USA: Prioritizing Technical Competence and Inclusion
Church music leaders in the United States pursue two priorities: technical accuracy and fluency in the music-making of their church ensembles, and, including as many volunteers as possible in those same ensembles. At times, the prioritization of technical competence and inclusion conflict, because volunteers whose playing or singing is less than competent seek to be included in church music groups. Facing this ethical dilemma, church music leader…
Revolutionary Songs from Myanmar: Reconsidering Scholarly Perspectives on Protest Music
Since the February 1, 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Burmese musicians have been creating and circulating anti-coup songs, which are usually called “revolutionary songs.” This article describes a representative sample of these songs, explaining how the lyrics reference important tropes in Burmese life and history. Further, the article argues that these revolutionary songs, while they can be understood as protest music, do not fit precisely into c…
Burmese Buddhist Monks, the Seventh Precept, and Cognitive Dissonance
Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monks have varying degrees of involvement with music; this study of 22 monks from across Burma/Myanmar reveals that most of them often listen to recorded music. At the same time the monks acknowledge that Buddhism's seventh precept guides (or ought to guide) their behavior, agreeing that to be "attached" to music is to violate their monastic rule. They therefore experience cognitive dissonance, and they respond to this …
Music and Incitement to Violence: Anti-Muslim Hate Music in Burma/Myanmar
This article examines a corpus of Burmese-language anti-Muslim hate songs archived on YouTube. Burma/Myanmar is the site of recent genocidal violence perpetrated against Muslims, and these songs are part of the hate speech campaign that undergirds this violence. Using the definition of incitement articulated by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the article shows that the lyrics of these songs constitute incitement to violence. Furth…
‘Jesus Is Not A Foreign God’: Baptist Music Making in Burma/Myanmar
Christians in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, also known as Myanmar, make up approximately five percent of the national population. The Christian community of Burma includes both Catholics and Protestants, and Baptists predominate among the Protestants. In this article I argue that twenty-first century Protestant Burmese Christians fulfill both aspects of a “twofold legacy” bequeathed to them by Adoniram Judson, the first Baptist missionary…
Introduction to Special Issue, Music in World Religions: A Response to Isabel Laack
This article serves to introduce a special issue of Religions, titled Music in World Religions. A 2015 article by religion scholar Isabel Laack claimed that the study of music and religion has been neglected by Laack’s peers in the field of religions. Responding to Laack, I argue that scholars of music have been making important contributions to the study of music and religion and, indeed, have been addressing the twelve specific topics she highl…
Sincerity and Irony in the “Gay” Music of Gala Choruses
Singing, Dancing, and Identity in the Karen Diaspora
Karen refugees from Burma/Myanmar, now living in diaspora, perform two iconic dances: the bamboo dance and the don dance. These dances-which involve singing in Karen languages, playing traditional Karen instruments, wearing Karen dress, and enacting gestures that symbolize village life in Burma-allow Karen young people to practice the habits of "Karen-ness." The dances are rehearsed and performed in order to inculcate a sense of Karen identity in…
Creating Pan-Karen Identity: The Wrist Tying Ceremony in the United States
A movement to unite all Karen-language speaking people under the banner of a distinct and unified Karen identity has been afoot for more than a century. Buddhist and Christian Karens from Burma, now living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, are forging – and contesting – a universal Karen identity through the celebration of the “traditional” wrist tying ceremony. This articulation of pan-Karen identity is an example of Baumann and Gingrich's (2004) the…
Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors
Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly repressive social and political context that is Burma today. It deals sensitively with issues such as negotiating local and global styl…
The Greatest Rock Star Who Never Was: Garth Brooks, Chris Gaines, and Modern America
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Innovation in the Guise of Tradition: Music among the Chin Population of Indianapolis, USA
Innovation in the Guise of Tradition:Music among the Chin Population of Indianapolis, USA1 Heather MacLachlan2 (bio) March 2005: I am sitting on the floor of a small apartment in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tenants of the apartment, recent arrivals in Indianapolis, are a married couple in their early 30s. They are members of the city's Chin community, a group of some 300 people who fled their homeland of Burma, where they are a struggling minority…
Creating Pan-Karen Identity: The Wrist Tying Ceremony in the United States
A movement to unite all Karen-language speaking people under the banner of a distinct and unified Karen identity has been afoot for more than a century. Buddhist and Christian Karens from Burma, now living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, are forging – and contesting – a universal Karen identity through the celebration of the “traditional” wrist tying ceremony. This articulation of pan-Karen identity is an example of Baumann and Gingrich's (2004) the…
Singing, Dancing, and Identity in the Karen Diaspora
Karen refugees from Burma/Myanmar, now living in diaspora, perform two iconic dances: the bamboo dance and the don dance. These dances-which involve singing in Karen languages, playing traditional Karen instruments, wearing Karen dress, and enacting gestures that symbolize village life in Burma-allow Karen young people to practice the habits of "Karen-ness." The dances are rehearsed and performed in order to inculcate a sense of Karen identity in…
Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors
Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly repressive social and political context that is Burma today. It deals sensitively with issues such as negotiating local and global styl…
Music and Incitement to Violence: Anti-Muslim Hate Music in Burma/Myanmar
This article examines a corpus of Burmese-language anti-Muslim hate songs archived on YouTube. Burma/Myanmar is the site of recent genocidal violence perpetrated against Muslims, and these songs are part of the hate speech campaign that undergirds this violence. Using the definition of incitement articulated by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the article shows that the lyrics of these songs constitute incitement to violence. Furth…
Sincerity and Irony in the “Gay” Music of Gala Choruses
The Greatest Rock Star Who Never Was: Garth Brooks, Chris Gaines, and Modern America
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Innovation in the Guise of Tradition: Music among the Chin Population of Indianapolis, USA
Innovation in the Guise of Tradition:Music among the Chin Population of Indianapolis, USA1 Heather MacLachlan2 (bio) March 2005: I am sitting on the floor of a small apartment in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tenants of the apartment, recent arrivals in Indianapolis, are a married couple in their early 30s. They are members of the city's Chin community, a group of some 300 people who fled their homeland of Burma, where they are a struggling minority…
Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors
Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within the highly repressive social and political context that is Burma today. It deals sensitively with issues such as negotiating local and global styl…
Creating Pan-Karen Identity: The Wrist Tying Ceremony in the United States
A movement to unite all Karen-language speaking people under the banner of a distinct and unified Karen identity has been afoot for more than a century. Buddhist and Christian Karens from Burma, now living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, are forging – and contesting – a universal Karen identity through the celebration of the “traditional” wrist tying ceremony. This articulation of pan-Karen identity is an example of Baumann and Gingrich's (2004) the…
Singing, Dancing, and Identity in the Karen Diaspora
Karen refugees from Burma/Myanmar, now living in diaspora, perform two iconic dances: the bamboo dance and the don dance. These dances-which involve singing in Karen languages, playing traditional Karen instruments, wearing Karen dress, and enacting gestures that symbolize village life in Burma-allow Karen young people to practice the habits of "Karen-ness." The dances are rehearsed and performed in order to inculcate a sense of Karen identity in…
Sincerity and Irony in the “Gay” Music of Gala Choruses
‘Jesus Is Not A Foreign God’: Baptist Music Making in Burma/Myanmar
Christians in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, also known as Myanmar, make up approximately five percent of the national population. The Christian community of Burma includes both Catholics and Protestants, and Baptists predominate among the Protestants. In this article I argue that twenty-first century Protestant Burmese Christians fulfill both aspects of a “twofold legacy” bequeathed to them by Adoniram Judson, the first Baptist missionary…
Introduction to Special Issue, Music in World Religions: A Response to Isabel Laack
This article serves to introduce a special issue of Religions, titled Music in World Religions. A 2015 article by religion scholar Isabel Laack claimed that the study of music and religion has been neglected by Laack’s peers in the field of religions. Responding to Laack, I argue that scholars of music have been making important contributions to the study of music and religion and, indeed, have been addressing the twelve specific topics she highl…
Burmese Buddhist Monks, the Seventh Precept, and Cognitive Dissonance
Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monks have varying degrees of involvement with music; this study of 22 monks from across Burma/Myanmar reveals that most of them often listen to recorded music. At the same time the monks acknowledge that Buddhism's seventh precept guides (or ought to guide) their behavior, agreeing that to be "attached" to music is to violate their monastic rule. They therefore experience cognitive dissonance, and they respond to this …
Music and Incitement to Violence: Anti-Muslim Hate Music in Burma/Myanmar
This article examines a corpus of Burmese-language anti-Muslim hate songs archived on YouTube. Burma/Myanmar is the site of recent genocidal violence perpetrated against Muslims, and these songs are part of the hate speech campaign that undergirds this violence. Using the definition of incitement articulated by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the article shows that the lyrics of these songs constitute incitement to violence. Furth…
Church Music Leaders in the USA: Prioritizing Technical Competence and Inclusion
Church music leaders in the United States pursue two priorities: technical accuracy and fluency in the music-making of their church ensembles, and, including as many volunteers as possible in those same ensembles. At times, the prioritization of technical competence and inclusion conflict, because volunteers whose playing or singing is less than competent seek to be included in church music groups. Facing this ethical dilemma, church music leader…
Revolutionary Songs from Myanmar: Reconsidering Scholarly Perspectives on Protest Music
Since the February 1, 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Burmese musicians have been creating and circulating anti-coup songs, which are usually called “revolutionary songs.” This article describes a representative sample of these songs, explaining how the lyrics reference important tropes in Burmese life and history. Further, the article argues that these revolutionary songs, while they can be understood as protest music, do not fit precisely into c…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Burmese (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)