(Closed from Dec 2016)

Music & Mobilities aims to be a forum of discussion for researchers and postgraduate students investigating the relationship between music—its various modes and scales of production, consumption, circulation, and signification—and its manifold registers of movement/mobility. The reading group seeks primarily to provide members with an opportunity to present and receive constructive feedback on their ongoing research, and second to introduce and discuss recommended readings on music-oriented themes (migration, cities, identity, materialities, research methods). Through its focus on music as a distinctive mobility, the group hopes to stimulate collaborative and reflexive inquiry into the basic concepts underlying the understanding of movement and migration—concepts such as local versus global; artifacts/objects versus processes/practices; tradition versus modernity (and post-modernity), and so forth.

Group administrators: Anjeline de Dios

2016

• Niranjana, Tejaswini. 2016. Draft chapter for upcoming book.
• Jean-Luc Nancy. 2007. Listening. New York: Fordham University Press.

2015 - De Dios, Anjeline

Western Music by Its Others: Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor.” Unpublished PhD Thesis, National University of Singapore.

2013 - Duffy, Michelle & Gordon Wait

Home Sounds: Experiential Practices and Performativities of Hearing and Listening. Social & Cultural Geography, 14(4), pp. 466-481.

2012 - Ferzacca, Steve

“Deep Sound, Country Feeling: Kroncong Music in a Javanese Neighbourhood.” ARI Working Paper Series 180.