Yun Emily Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yun Emily Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yun Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG Y E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
President's Roundtable
This article is a collection of six revised essays from the 2023 Society for Ethnomusicology President's Roundtable “Tell Me a Story” with an introduction and conclusion to contextualize the essays as vehicles for teaching storywork. At the roundtable, we asked: What stories do ethnomusicologists experience, learn, carry, create, embody, and (re)tell? What atypical labors do stories perform that other forms of speech and writing do not? Which sto…
Shopping and Chopping
Through ethnography, this article studies the different ways in which two immigrant Chinese women listened to everyday sounds (blender growl, bone cutter shrieks, cleaver thuds) in relation to their environments (mall, supermarket, and kitchen) and to each other. I situate their frictions within dominant tropes of immigration, ethnicity, race, and gender under Canadian multiculturalism, in Chinese history, and through gendered Asian racialization…
Listening Incommensurably
This article juxtaposes two ethnographic moments from five years of fieldwork (2013–18) with a group of queer Taiwanese immigrants in Toronto, which coincided with the pivotal years during which Taiwan became recognized in Anglophone West as Asia’s “beacon” of queer liberation. I situate the first moment—an unruly, noisy night of transgressive vocal play and aural contestations at home—within a political climate marked by potential, when a capaci…
Doing Tai Chi with “American Music”
I thought I was imagining things at first.Shortly after I moved to Durham, North Carolina, in March 2020, I began hearing The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto whenever I walked around the neighborhood. It was always only the first ten or so minutes of the first movement: the trilling flute, then the oboe tenderly soloing over lush strings, the violin's glissando into a D—I could almost feel my left hand sliding into third position for that note, …
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Doing Tai Chi with “American Music”
I thought I was imagining things at first.Shortly after I moved to Durham, North Carolina, in March 2020, I began hearing The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto whenever I walked around the neighborhood. It was always only the first ten or so minutes of the first movement: the trilling flute, then the oboe tenderly soloing over lush strings, the violin's glissando into a D—I could almost feel my left hand sliding into third position for that note, …
Listening Incommensurably
This article juxtaposes two ethnographic moments from five years of fieldwork (2013–18) with a group of queer Taiwanese immigrants in Toronto, which coincided with the pivotal years during which Taiwan became recognized in Anglophone West as Asia’s “beacon” of queer liberation. I situate the first moment—an unruly, noisy night of transgressive vocal play and aural contestations at home—within a political climate marked by potential, when a capaci…
President's Roundtable
This article is a collection of six revised essays from the 2023 Society for Ethnomusicology President's Roundtable “Tell Me a Story” with an introduction and conclusion to contextualize the essays as vehicles for teaching storywork. At the roundtable, we asked: What stories do ethnomusicologists experience, learn, carry, create, embody, and (re)tell? What atypical labors do stories perform that other forms of speech and writing do not? Which sto…
Shopping and Chopping
Through ethnography, this article studies the different ways in which two immigrant Chinese women listened to everyday sounds (blender growl, bone cutter shrieks, cleaver thuds) in relation to their environments (mall, supermarket, and kitchen) and to each other. I situate their frictions within dominant tropes of immigration, ethnicity, race, and gender under Canadian multiculturalism, in Chinese history, and through gendered Asian racialization…
Music History and Culture (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Active listening (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Communication (1 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (1 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works)