Deborah Wong

Biographic Data

ID3621729
NAMEDeborah Wong
GIVEN NAMESDeborah
FAMILY NAMEWong
SIGNATUREWONG D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Riverside
ORCID0000-0002-8445-4450
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS38
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Revisiting Hungry Listening

    Ann Cvetkovich, Ellen Waterman et al.ARTICLEResonance The Journal of Sound…2024

    This coauthored essay is an invited response to Dylan Robinson’s 2021 book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. The invitation built on his original act of holding space for settler engagement in the conclusion of the book, for which he had asked Waterman and Wong to contribute a dialogue. The authors reflect on prompts provided by Robinson and engage in an iterative, dialogical reflection on how Hungry Listening change…

  • Curtain Up

    Deborah WongARTICLEEthnomusicology2022References: 1

    This feature-length documentary follows the production of Frozen Kids, a thirty-minute adaptation of Disney's Frozen, at the Yung Wing Public School 124 (PS 124) in Chinatown, New York City. The fourth- and fifth-grade students at the heart of the film are all Chinese American. The first few minutes of the documentary show the children and their teachers at the final performance, so we know from the outset that this journey ends successfully. The…

  • Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko

    Open AccessDeborah J Wong, Deborah WongBOOKLouder and Faster2019

    2020 Alan Merriam Prize for Best Book Published in Ethnomusicology, Society for Ethnomusicology A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . Lo ud er and Fa ste r is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian American taiko, the thundering, athletic drumming tradition that originated in Japan. Immersed in the taiko scene for twenty years, Deborah Wong has witnessed cultural and demographic changes and…

  • Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko

    Open AccessDeborah WongBOOKLouder and Faster2019

    Louder and Faster is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian American taiko, the thundering, athletic drumming tradition that originated in Japan. Immersed in the taiko scene for twenty years, Deborah Wong has witnessed cultural and demographic changes and the exponential growth and expansion of taiko, particularly in Southern California. Through her participatory ethnographic work, she reveals a complicated story embedded in memories of Japa…

  • Louder and Faster

    Open AccessDeborah J Wong, Deborah WongBOOKLouder and Faster2019References: 30

    Luminos is the Open Access monograph publishing program from UC Press.Luminos provides a framework for preserving and reinvigorating monograph publishing for the future and increases the reach and visibility of important scholarly work.Titles published in the UC Press Luminos model are published with the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as those in our traditional program.www.luminosoa.orgvii here right he…

  • The Funeral of King Rama IX: Mourning and the Thai State

    Supeena Insee Adler, Deborah WongARTICLEAsian Music2019Cited by: 1

    The royal funeral for HRH King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX) of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand was held on October 25–29, 2017. Based on ethnographic research, we describe the sprawling and immersive character of the funeral and the national mourning that it demanded. This article concerns the five days of the official royal funeral. We offer an overview of the many kinds of music, dance, and performance featured in the funeral, with an eye t…

  • Socioeconomic variation in incidence of primary and secondary major cardiovascular disease events: An Australian population-based prospective cohort study

    Open AccessRosemary J Korda, Rosemary Korda et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2016

    Individual-level data are important for quantifying socioeconomic variation in CVD incidence, which is shown to be substantial among both those with and without prior CVD. Findings reinforce the opportunity for, and importance of, primary and secondary prevention and treatment in reducing socioeconomic variation in CVD and consequently the overall burden of CVD morbidity and mortality in Australia

  • Sound, Silence, Music: Power

    Deborah WongARTICLEEthnomusicology2014Cited by: 18References: 10

    One afternoon in the mid-1990s, I walked past a bookstore in Berkeley, California and stopped to look at the window display. It featured a group of at least twenty books with wildly divergent subjects that were clearly meant to be viewed together, and I stared, puzzled, until I suddenly saw that each book title had the word "power" in it. They bore titles like Power and Accountability, Power and Beauty, Power and Civil Society, Power and Communit…

  • Introduction: Diversity and IASPM-US

    Open AccessDeborah WongARTICLEJournal of Popular Music Studies2007

  • Wired for Sound: Engineering and Sonic Cultures

    Deborah J Wong, Deborah WongARTICLEEthnomusicology2006

    Book Review| October 01 2006 Wired for Sound: Engineering and Sonic Cultures Wired for Sound: Engineering and Sonic Cultures, Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello. Deborah Wong Deborah Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (3): 509–513. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174478 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Wong; Wired for Sound: E…

  • Ethnomusicology and Difference

    Deborah WongARTICLEEthnomusicology2006Cited by: 6References: 6

    Research Article| April 01 2006 Ethnomusicology and Difference Deborah Wong Deborah Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2006) 50 (2): 259–279. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174452 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Wong; Ethnomusicology and Difference. Ethnomusicology 1 January 2006; 50 (2): 259–279. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2017445…

  • Speak it Louder: Asian Americans Making Music

    Deborah WongBOOKSpeak It Louder2004

    Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics-from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop-that have been created by Asian Americans. This book is not about "Asian American music" but rather about Asian Americans making music. This key distinction allows the author to track a wide range of musical genres. Wong covers an astonishing variety of music, ethnically as well as stylistically: Laotian song, Camb…

  • Guest Editor's Introduction: A/A: African American-Asian American Cross-Identifications

    Deborah WongARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2002References: 2

    This special issue addresses Asian American/African American relationships but extends the topic into specific questions of cross-identification and dialogic construction. The field of Asian American Studies has been especially concerned with how the Asian American disrupts the Black-White binary and how political linkages across communities of color could open up new ways of thinking about race and ethnicity. Originally a panel at the annual mee…

  • Finding an Asian American Audience: The Problem of Listening

    Deborah WongARTICLEAmerican Music2001

    We were having dinner at an Italian restaurant in Riverside, California, on a rainy night in February, just the four of us. Writer David Mura was in an expansive mood, having just given the second of two public presentations at the University of California-Riverside; two of my colleagues, Ruth Chao from the Department of Psychology and Rodney Ogawa from the School of Education, rounded out the table-so we were four Asian Americans, that is, two S…

  • Books in the Nineties: A Collaborative Review Essay. Part II

    Victoria Lindsay Levine, Ellen Koskoff et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2001

  • Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (review)

    Deborah WongARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2001

    Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 4, Number 2, June 2001

  • Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance

    Paul D Greene, Deborah WongARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2001

    Sounding the Centre is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred centre of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honouring teachers of music and dance, Deborah A. Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge and performance that underlies the classical court arts. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, Wong lays out the ritual in detail: the way it is enact…

  • Thailand: Ceremonial and Court Music from Central Thailand

    Deborah Wong, James S UptonARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2000

  • Lanna Thai: Instrumental Music of Northwest Thailand

    Deborah Wong, Fred GalesARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2000

  • Great Leap's 20th Anniversary Concert: To All Relations '98, 17 July 1998, Japan America Theatre, Los Angeles

    Deborah WongARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies1999

    Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 2, Number 1, February 1999

  • Mon Music for Thai Deaths: Ethnicity and Status in Thai Urban Funerals

    Deborah WongARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1998Cited by: 6

    Mon Music for Thai Deaths: Ethnicity and Status in Thai Urban Funerals Deborah Wong Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 57, No. 1 (1998), 99-130. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0385-2342%281998%2957%3A1%3C99%3AMMFTDE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O Asian Folklore Studies is currently published by Asian Folklore Studies, Nanzan University. Your use of the J STOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://ww…

  • A Response to Charles Keil

    Deborah WongARTICLEEthnomusicology1998

  • The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance

    Deborah J Wong, Deborah Wong et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1995

  • "I Want the Microphone": Mass Mediation and Agency in Asian-American Popular Music

    Deborah Wong, Mai ElliotARTICLETDR/The Drama Review1994

    In the spring of 1993, Pomona College-a small liberal arts school on the eastern edge of the greater Los Angeles area-held its annual Asian Pacific Islander Week, a week-long festival celebrating Asian and Pacific Americans. Noon on 2 April students, staff, and faculty gathered in a courtyard outside a dormitory and sat on the grass in the spring sun, eating lunch and watching a group of teenagers set up a large sound system and casually try out …

  • Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine. Marina Roseman

    Open AccessDeborah WongARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1994