Gavin S K Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 6307111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin S K Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin S K |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE G S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Soochow University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5160-263X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reclaiming Uyghur Agency Through Artistic Practices
This interview details the professional and personal journey of Mukaddas Mijit, a Uyghur artist and ethnomusicologist navigating the complexities of life in the diaspora. Mijit explores the systemic challenges she has faced within both Chinese and Euro-American institutions, highlighting how her identity is frequently subjected to different forms of racialization. In the Chinese context, she describes a colonial framework where Uyghur culture is …
Queer Sinophone Ear
This article sheds light on the intertwined nature of Sino- and Eurocolonialities, advocating for a nuanced, intersectional approach that has so far eluded Sinophone studies. Dual colonialities constitute a framework necessary for approaching complex cases such as Chinese minority musical modernism that is subject to both colonialities, objections to Chinese appropriations of Western music that may be Eurocolonial or anti-nativist (de-Sinocolonia…
From Difference to Ambiguity
The concept of difference has been central to counterhegemonic music studies, in particular those focused on race, class, gender, and sexuality. But what about when difference goes wrong? This essay contributes to the marginalized discourse that is the critique of difference in music studies. Rather than an antiracist panacea, difference is shown to be just one of the ethical concepts available for use. But because of a lack of awareness of the l…
Sex Sounds
Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Musical Modernisms
Global Musical Modernisms – the formulation heralds expansion into new arenas of music research. 1 For while certain pairings of the component terms are familiar enough, the concatenation of all three is novel. In music studies, the most notable trend is the flurry of activity around global music history, with study groups in two societies historically focused on Western musics, and one focused on ethnomusicology. 2 Global music history derives s…
Global Musical Modernisms as Decolonial Method
This article argues that through historiography, global musical modernisms decolonize Western musical modernism, expanding and bursting the latter's spatial (geographic), vertical (high–low genres), and temporal boundaries. The unsettling of these various boundaries shows how coloniality is the context of, and thoroughly imbricated with, global musical modernisms – and yet the latter has channelled the self-conscious resistance of global music-ma…
Global Philosophy of Music
Neo-Taoists in third-century China believed that music should not be too emotive, as this resulted in an imbalance that disrupted the natural human state. This perspective is congruent with the older Taoist tenet that one should relinquish socially constructed desires in order to follow the Tao or “pathway.” The epitome of Neo-Taoist music aesthetics can be found in philosopher and guqin player Ji Kang’s thesis that Music Has in It Neither Sorrow…
If Looks Could Kill
Sentencing research suggests that offenders who are more physically attractive are more likely to experience leniency in verdict and sentencing. Additionally, there is evidence that other extralegal factors, such as race, influence public and juror opinions on criminality and the appropriate punishment of criminal defendants. Much research on attractiveness, however, has not focused on female offenders or does not explore death penalty opinions. …
Postcolonial Bifurcation
One of the lesser‐known terms used by Gilles Deleuze to articulate his conception of difference – or, more accurately, of differentiation – as the condition of existence is ‘bifurcation’, the continuous process of splitting into ever‐more new pathways. Bifurcation is reflected in the life and music of the Texas‐born composer John Sharpley (b. 1955), who moved to Singapore in 1986. In his Emptiness (2002) for Chinese and Western string quartets, c…
Postcolonial Affect
This article examines postcolonial affect as expressed in the Belgian-born Singaporean citizen Robert Casteels's L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali (2002), in which it is shown that sonic identities (gamelan and Chinese instruments; quotations from Debussy and Bartók) give way to the ambiguous, modulating relationality of dis/affiliation, dis/affinity and a/proximity. Micro-changes in musical affect lead to the loosening of enculturated or accul…
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Postcolonial Affect
This article examines postcolonial affect as expressed in the Belgian-born Singaporean citizen Robert Casteels's L’(autre) fille aux cheveux de Bali (2002), in which it is shown that sonic identities (gamelan and Chinese instruments; quotations from Debussy and Bartók) give way to the ambiguous, modulating relationality of dis/affiliation, dis/affinity and a/proximity. Micro-changes in musical affect lead to the loosening of enculturated or accul…
Postcolonial Bifurcation
One of the lesser‐known terms used by Gilles Deleuze to articulate his conception of difference – or, more accurately, of differentiation – as the condition of existence is ‘bifurcation’, the continuous process of splitting into ever‐more new pathways. Bifurcation is reflected in the life and music of the Texas‐born composer John Sharpley (b. 1955), who moved to Singapore in 1986. In his Emptiness (2002) for Chinese and Western string quartets, c…
If Looks Could Kill
Sentencing research suggests that offenders who are more physically attractive are more likely to experience leniency in verdict and sentencing. Additionally, there is evidence that other extralegal factors, such as race, influence public and juror opinions on criminality and the appropriate punishment of criminal defendants. Much research on attractiveness, however, has not focused on female offenders or does not explore death penalty opinions. …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Global Musical Modernisms
Global Musical Modernisms – the formulation heralds expansion into new arenas of music research. 1 For while certain pairings of the component terms are familiar enough, the concatenation of all three is novel. In music studies, the most notable trend is the flurry of activity around global music history, with study groups in two societies historically focused on Western musics, and one focused on ethnomusicology. 2 Global music history derives s…
Global Musical Modernisms as Decolonial Method
This article argues that through historiography, global musical modernisms decolonize Western musical modernism, expanding and bursting the latter's spatial (geographic), vertical (high–low genres), and temporal boundaries. The unsettling of these various boundaries shows how coloniality is the context of, and thoroughly imbricated with, global musical modernisms – and yet the latter has channelled the self-conscious resistance of global music-ma…
Global Philosophy of Music
Neo-Taoists in third-century China believed that music should not be too emotive, as this resulted in an imbalance that disrupted the natural human state. This perspective is congruent with the older Taoist tenet that one should relinquish socially constructed desires in order to follow the Tao or “pathway.” The epitome of Neo-Taoist music aesthetics can be found in philosopher and guqin player Ji Kang’s thesis that Music Has in It Neither Sorrow…
Sex Sounds
From Difference to Ambiguity
The concept of difference has been central to counterhegemonic music studies, in particular those focused on race, class, gender, and sexuality. But what about when difference goes wrong? This essay contributes to the marginalized discourse that is the critique of difference in music studies. Rather than an antiracist panacea, difference is shown to be just one of the ethical concepts available for use. But because of a lack of awareness of the l…
Reclaiming Uyghur Agency Through Artistic Practices
This interview details the professional and personal journey of Mukaddas Mijit, a Uyghur artist and ethnomusicologist navigating the complexities of life in the diaspora. Mijit explores the systemic challenges she has faced within both Chinese and Euro-American institutions, highlighting how her identity is frequently subjected to different forms of racialization. In the Chinese context, she describes a colonial framework where Uyghur culture is …
Queer Sinophone Ear
This article sheds light on the intertwined nature of Sino- and Eurocolonialities, advocating for a nuanced, intersectional approach that has so far eluded Sinophone studies. Dual colonialities constitute a framework necessary for approaching complex cases such as Chinese minority musical modernism that is subject to both colonialities, objections to Chinese appropriations of Western music that may be Eurocolonial or anti-nativist (de-Sinocolonia…
Music History and Culture (6 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Musical (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)